Records of Jay Taylor on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Jay Taylor 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

Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Taylor ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jay Taylor and the Taylor Genealogy

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

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Taylor Family Tree 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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Taylor 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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Miscellaneous Taylor Databases

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Some Famous People called Jay Taylor

Jay Taylor (basketball)

Cornellias F. "Jay" Taylor, Jr. (October 3, 1967 – July 4, 1998) was an American professional basketball player.

Taylor, a guard from East Aurora High School in Aurora, Illinois, played college basketball at Eastern Illinois. He finished his career with 1,926 points and graduated as EIU's all-time leading scorer (since passed by Henry Domercant). In his senior year, he averaged 23.8 points per game and was named the 1989 The Mid-Continent Conference Player of the Year.

Following his college career, Taylor was not drafted in the 1989 NBA Draft. However, he made the New Jersey Nets' roster and stuck with the team until December. He finished the season with the Wichita Falls Texans of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). Taylor played for four more years in the CBA - with the Grand Rapids Hoops, Rochester Renegade, Oklahoma City Cavalry and Rockford Lightning.

Taylor died in a house fire on July 4, 1998. He was inducted into the Eastern Illinois University athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.

Source: Jay Taylor (basketball), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Taylor

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