Records of Jan Stirling on Ancestry

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

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jan Stirling and the Stirling Family History

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

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Stirling Family History Databases

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Stirling Forums

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Some Famous People called Jan Stirling

Jan Stirling

Jan Stirling (née Graham; born 20 July 1955) is a former Australian women's basketball player and coach. She played for the Australia women's national basketball team during the 1970s and competed for Australia at the 1975 World Championship held in Colombia. In the domestic Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), Stirling played 163 games for North Adelaide Rockets.

Following her retirement in 1991, Stirling went on to become a successful basketball coach. Stirling led Adelaide Lightning to 12 straight Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) finals appearances between 1993 and 2004 and five consecutive Grand Final appearances resulting in four Championships. Stirling was WNBL Coach of the Year in 1993. Stirling became an assistant coach of the Opals in 1994 and became head coach in 2001, the first time a former Australian player, and a woman, had ever taken charge of the Opals. In 2004, Stirling quit the Lightning to concentrate full-time on coaching the Opals.

Stirling had immediate success as national coach, winning a bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships in China. She then led the Opals to silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, to gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, gold at the 2006 FIBA world championship in Brazil and silver at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. As a result, Stirling has been described as Australia's most successful basketball coach.

Following the 2008 Olympics, Stirling stepped down as the Opals head coach, becoming a consultant to the Russian Basketball Federation. Since 2010, Stirling has been assisting Port Adelaide Power with their Leadership program. In November 2010, Basketball Australia appointed Stirling as Manager of the national program of the Australian Women's Wheelchair Basketball Program. Stirling was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2008 for her contribution to sport - as an elite coach, player and as a contributor to professional development and the community.

In 2013, Stirling was elected to the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, in 2015.

Source: Jan Stirling, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Stirling

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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