Records of Jan Courtenay on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Jan Courtenay 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

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jan Courtenay and the Courtenay Family Tree

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

Explore Parish Records for Jan Courtenay at Find My Past.

Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Jan Courtenay using the FreeBMD database.

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Search the LDS Database for records about Jan Courtenay.

Research the Courtenay surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Courtenay Military records.

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Courtenay 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.

Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Jan Courtenay.

Study MyTrees for information on the Courtenay family and people looking to contact living Courtenay relations.

Check out One Great Family for Courtenay records submitted by people who are already researching the Courtenay Family Tree.

Find Jan Courtenay from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Courtenay 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.

Research the Courtenay surname using Genealogy.com forums .

Miscellaneous Courtenay Databases

Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Jan Courtenay. 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 Jan Courtenay

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.

For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperial Russian universities: Kazan (1874–1883), Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) (1883–1893), Kraków (1893–1899) in Austria-Hungary, and St. Petersburg (1900–1918). In 1919–1929 he was a professor at the re-established University of Warsaw in a once again independent Poland.

Source: Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Courtenay

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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