Records of Herman Lam on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Herman Lam and the Lam Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Lam 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 Lam family tree.

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Lam Family Tree Databases

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Lam Forums

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Some Famous People called Herman Lam

Herman Johannes Lam

Herman Johannes Lam (3 January 1892 in Veendam – 15 February 1977 in Leiden) was a Dutch botanist.

Lam studied at Utrecht University, where he was awarded a Doctor of Biology in 1919. Lam was the appointed the director of the Rijksherbarium in 1933. He retired from academic work in 1962. He was member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1960.

In 1957, botanist Steenis published a genus of plants from New Guinea (belonging to the family Bignoniaceae) as Lamiodendron, in his honour.

Source: Herman Johannes Lam, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Lam

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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