Researching Howard Hiatt
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 281 people with the Hiatt surname? In that year Hiatt was ranked number 3298 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Howard means "Guardian of the Home" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Howard Hiatt on Ancestry
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DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Hiatt ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Howard Hiatt and the Hiatt Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Hiatt 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Hiatt family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 387 people with the Hiatt surname in the UK? Hiatt is now ranked number 3677 for popularity in the UK. |
Hiatt Family Tree Databases
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Hiatt Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Hiatt surname in the USA? Hiatt is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Hiatt Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Howard Hiatt. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Howard Hiatt
Howard Hiatt
Howard Haym Hiatt (born July 22, 1925) is a medical researcher involved with the discovery of messenger RNA, past chair from 1963-1972 of the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, past dean from 1972–1984 of the Harvard School of Public Health, and co-founder and associate chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he also he helped to launch and for this past decade has been the Associate Chief of the hospital's Division of Global Health Equity, and a founding head of the cancer division of Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). He was a member of the team at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, led by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod which first identified and described messenger RNA, and he was part of the team led by James Watson that was among the first to demonstrate messenger RNA in mammalian cells.Hiatt was married for 60 years to Doris Bieringer, a librarian who co-founded a reference publication for high school libraries. Hiatt is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Source: Howard Hiatt, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Hiatt
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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