Records of James Meyer on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of James Meyer 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 James Meyer and the Meyer Family Tree

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

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Some Famous People called James Meyer

James Meyer (cricketer)

James Duncan Meyer (born 7 March 1966) is a former English cricketer. Meyer was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.

Meyer played a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match for Shropshire against Dorset in 1995.

In 2000, he represented the Worcestershire Cricket Board in a single List A match against the Kent Cricket Board in the 2000 NatWest Trophy. In his only List A match, he scored 7 runs and took a single wicket at a cost of 42 runs.

Source: James Meyer (cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

James Henry Meyer

James H. Meyer (1922–2002) served as chancellor of the University of California, Davis, from 1969 to 1987.

He received a B.S. degree in agriculture in 1947 from the University of Idaho followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in animal nutrition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1951 he accepted appointment as instructor in the then Animal Husbandry Department at UC Davis.

He was appointed department chair in 1960 and appointed Dean of the College of Agriculture in 1963. During his term as Dean, Meyer proposed the creation of the Academic Staff Organization (now the Academic Federation) to provide a forum and a voice for the many academic appointees who were not members of the Academic Senate. The Academic Federation’s annual Distinguished Achievement Award is named in his honor.

Meyer was inaugurated as the third chancellor of UC Davis in a ceremony on the Quad on April 24, 1970. Campus milestones that occurred during his tenure as chancellor included: acquisition of the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, establishment of the Graduate School of Administration (now Management), the Divisions of Biology and Environmental Sciences, the Work-Learn Center, and construction of Rec Hall without state funds. Meyer served as chancellor until 1987 when Theodore Hullar was appointed as the fourth chancellor of UC Davis.

Meyer Hall was dedicated in his honor on April 15, 1989. Meyer died on October 12, 2002.

Source: James Henry Meyer, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Meyer

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