Records of James Wood on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of James Wood 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Wood and the Wood Family History

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

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ukDid you know that there are currently 105866 people with the Wood surname in the UK? Wood is now ranked number 22 for popularity in the UK.

Wood Family History 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.

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Wood 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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ukDid you know that there are currently 297748 people with the Wood surname in the USA? Wood is ranked number 65 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Wood Databases

Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on James Wood. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called James Wood

James Wood (encyclopaedist)

James Wood (12 October 1820 – 17 March 1901) was a Scottish editor and Free Church minister. He was born in Leith and studied at the University of Edinburgh, living most of his life in Edinburgh. His admiration for Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin may have contributed to his failure to secure a ministry. Instead he earned a living as a writer. He translated Auguste Barth's Religions of India and edited Nuttall's Standard Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, Warne's Dictionary of Quotations (later titled Nuttall's Dictionary of Quotations), Bagster & Sons' Helps to the Bible, and a Carlyle School Reader. In 1881 he published anonymously The Strait Gate, and Other Discourses, with a Lecture on Thomas Carlyle, by a Scotch Preacher. He is described by P. J. E. Wilson as " that most conscientious of pedants". Source: James Wood (encyclopaedist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

James Wood (musician)

James Wood (born 27 May 1953 in Barton-on-Sea, England) is a British conductor, composer of contemporary classical music and former percussionist.Wood studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1971 to 1972 before going on to study music at Cambridge University, where he was organ scholar of Sidney Sussex College from 1972 until 1975. After graduating from Cambridge he went on to study percussion and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1975 until 1976. After a further year studying percussion privately with Nicholas Cole, Wood embarked on a triple career as percussionist, composer and conductor. Source: James Wood (musician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

James Wood (South African cricketer)

James Robert Wood (born 8 September 1985) is a South African cricketer. Wood is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Cape Town, Cape Province.

While studying for his degree at Durham University, Wood made his first-class debut for Durham UCCE against Durham in 2005. He made five further first-class appearances for the university, the last of which came against Lancashire in 2007. In his six first-class matches, he scored 170 runs at an average of 15.45, with a high score of 31. Behind the stumps he took 2 catches and made a single stumping.

Source: James Wood (South African cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Wood

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