Researching James Pilling
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3614 people with the Pilling surname? In that year Pilling was ranked number 1157 for popularity in the UK. |
The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Pilling on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Pilling and the Pilling Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Pilling 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 Pilling family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 2801 people with the Pilling surname in the UK? Pilling is now ranked number 1908 for popularity in the UK. |
Pilling Family Tree Databases
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Pilling Forums
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Miscellaneous Pilling Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on James Pilling. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called James Pilling
James Pilling
James Constantine Pilling (16 November 1846, in Washington, D.C. – 26 July 1895) was a Congressional stenographer-transcriptionist and a pioneering ethnologist chiefly known for compiling a series of extensive bibliographies of the cultures, mythologies and languages of the North and Central American aboriginal peoples. Beginning in 1875, when he joined the survey of the American West led by Maj. John Wesley Powell, and continuing through 1881, Pilling did extensive fieldwork and proofread Powell's Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States (1879).
Source: James Pilling, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Pilling
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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