Records of Helen Macdonald on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Helen Macdonald in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Helen Macdonald and the Macdonald Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Macdonald Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Macdonald family tree.

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Macdonald Family History Databases

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Some Famous People called Helen Macdonald

Helen MacDonald (Prince Edward Island politician)

Helen Mae MacDonald (born June 13, 1947) is a Canadian politician, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007. She represented the electoral district of St. Eleanors-Summerside and was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

She was born Helen Mae Mills in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, the daughter of Kenneth Mills and Marjorie Bryenton, and was educated at the Central School for Nursing Assistants. She worked as a nursing assistant at Prince County Hospital. Mills later operated a craft shop. In 1968, she married John MacDonald.

MacDonald did not run for reelection in 2007.

She should not be confused with the Helen MacDonald who led the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia from 2000 to 2001.

Source: Helen MacDonald (Prince Edward Island politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Macdonald

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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