Researching Hugh Sawrey
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The name Hugh means "Bright in Mind and Spirit" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Hugh Sawrey on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Hugh Sawrey in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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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 Sawrey 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 Hugh Sawrey and the Sawrey Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sawrey 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 Sawrey family tree.
Explore Parish Records for Hugh Sawrey at Find My Past.
Search for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Hugh Sawrey using the FreeBMD database.
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Explore the LDS Database for records about Hugh Sawrey.
Research the Sawrey surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Sawrey Military records.
Sawrey Genealogy Databases
Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.
Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Hugh Sawrey.
Study MyTrees for information on the Sawrey family and people looking to contact living Sawrey relations.
Search One Great Family for Sawrey records submitted by people who are already researching the Sawrey Family Tree.
Find Hugh Sawrey from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Sawrey 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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Miscellaneous Sawrey Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Hugh Sawrey. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Hugh Sawrey
Hugh Sawrey
Hugh David Sawrey, (born in Forest Glen, Queensland 1919, died Benalla Victoria, 1999) was an Australian artist and the founder of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach. Sawrey was an artist whose prolific output of paintings, and drawings of the Australian landscape and its people contributed in a profound way to the preserving of the memory of times and places in Australian history that were in danger of being overlooked and lost to posterity. Throughout his long career, he experienced firsthand events that shaped Australian identity in the 20th century and documented through his work many of the characters that lived in this period.
Source: Hugh Sawrey, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Sawrey
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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