Researching John Beck
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 7003 people with the Beck surname? In that year Beck was ranked number 584 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Beck on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of John Beck 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 Beck 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 John Beck and the Beck Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Beck 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 Beck family tree.
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Beck Family Tree Databases
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Beck Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 112415 people with the Beck surname in the USA? Beck is ranked number 120 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Beck Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on John Beck. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Beck
John Beck (gridiron football)
John Dalton Beck (born August 21, 1981) is an American football coaching consultant and former quarterback who is an offensive assistant for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Brigham Young University, and was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft. In addition to the Dolphins, Beck played professionally for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, Washington Redskins, and Houston Texans, as well as the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
Source: John Beck (gridiron football), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Beck (footballer)
John Alexander Beck (born 25 May 1954) is an English former footballer and manager. As a player, he made nearly 500 Football League appearances for five clubs between 1972 and 1989.
As a manager, he had a highly successful spell in charge of Cambridge United in the early 1990s, when he guided the club to two successive promotions and two successive quarter-final appearances in the FA Cup. Beck took the club from the Fourth Division to the Second and very nearly to the new Premier League at the end of the 1991–92 season, where they ended their campaign fifth in the Second Division, their highest ever league finish..
In 2010, he was appointed manager of Conference National club Histon, but resigned two games into the 2010–11 season.
Source: John Beck (footballer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Beck (golfer)
John Beaumont Beck MC (13 August 1899 – 20 June 1980) was an English amateur golfer. He played in the 1928 Walker Cup but is best remembered for being the captain in 1938, when Great Britain and Ireland won the Cup for the first time after nine defeats. He was also the non-playing captain in 1947.
Towards the end of the First World War, Beck served as a second lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. In 1919, he was awarded the Military Cross.
Beck played in the 1928 Walker Cup at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, a match the Americans won 11–1. He played in the foursomes, but was not selected for the singles.
Beck was selected as captain of the 1938 Walker Cup team, played on the Old Course at St Andrews. He was one of the 10-man team, but did not select himself for any of the matches. Great Britain and Ireland won the match 7–4, their first Walker Cup victory.
Beck was chosen as the non-playing captain of the 1947 Walker Cup team, again played on the Old Course at St Andrews.
He married Dorothy Pim in 1934. She was an Irish international golfer. She won the Irish Ladies Championship in 1938, winning the title on the first day of the Walker Cup match.
R. C. Robertson-Glasgow said of Beck:
Indeed on the links he is an artist; self-reliant and, as you might say, self-supporting; more tightly strung as to temperament than his genial and healthy aspect might convey to the casual eye; fitly framed for strong battle, but not impervious to the access of sometimes unreasonable mistrust in his own skill; an artist in the execution of strokes, especially the spoon shot and the pitch-and-run obediently halting at the correct station; a past master - almost totally 'past' in a world of sullen standardisation - at the selection of those hickory clubs which restore to the mind's fond eye the picture of the professional in the shop parting from some fruits of his craft as reluctantly as a lover from his loved.Source: John Beck (golfer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Beck
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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