Researching Jim Yardley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1901 people with the Yardley surname? In that year Yardley was ranked number 1892 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Jim means "Form of JAMES. one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jim Yardley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jim Yardley and the Yardley Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 2434 people with the Yardley surname in the UK? Yardley is now ranked number 2090 for popularity in the UK. |
Yardley Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Yardley surname in the USA? Yardley is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Jim Yardley
Jim Yardley
James Barrett Yardley (born June 18, 1964) is an American journalist currently working in Rome.
Yardley is a graduate of Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina and received a B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, class of '86. He joined the Times in 1997 and first worked as a metropolitan reporter in New York, and then became the bureau chief in Houston in 1999. His topics have included social unrest, minority uprisings, and pollution issues in China. He was the South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi until 2013, when he moved to Rome and became the bureau chief there. After 13 years as a foreign correspondent, Yardley and his family moved to London where he now works as the Europe editor.
From 1990 to 1997, Yardley was a national desk reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, based in Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
He also worked for the Anniston Star and New York Times Company regional newspapers in Fairfax County, Virginia. As well, he has written magazine articles for The New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Essence and Redbook.
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