Researching Hilary Smart
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Records of Hilary Smart on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Hilary Smart 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 Hilary Smart and the Smart Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Smart 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 Smart family tree.
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Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Hilary Smart using the FreeBMD database.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 17605 people with the Smart surname in the UK? Smart is now ranked number 307 for popularity in the UK. |
Smart Family History Databases
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Find Hilary Smart from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Smart Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 33421 people with the Smart surname in the USA? Smart is ranked number 146 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Smart Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Hilary Smart. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Hilary Smart
Hilary Smart
Hilary Hurlburt Smart (July 29, 1925 – January 8, 2000) was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he received a gold medal in the star class with the boat Hilarius, together with his father, Paul Smart. He often described his Olympic victory by speaking about "the unbelievable feeling of watching the torch come in at the Olympic Stadium. It made me feel proud and responsible to think that my dad and I were the only Americans in our specialty since each country was allowed just a single two-man boat."
Smart was a graduate of The Choate School and a 1947 graduate of Harvard College. While a student at Harvard he was a member of the Varsity Club, the Delphic Club, the Crimson Key Society (a founder), and the Hasty Pudding Club. After he competed at the Olympics, Smart continued sailing in star class for almost fifty years, qualifying twice for the world championships. He then became vice president of national sales at Libbey-Owens-Ford and became the president of Airwick Professional Products. He died at his home in Weston, Massachusetts, in 2000 of natural causes at the age of 74.
Source: Hilary Smart, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Smart
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