Researching John Hood
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 8290 people with the Hood surname? In that year Hood was ranked number 489 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Hood on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Hood and the Hood Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Hood 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 Hood family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 10138 people with the Hood surname in the UK? Hood is now ranked number 568 for popularity in the UK. |
Hood Family History Databases
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Hood Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 69880 people with the Hood surname in the USA? Hood is ranked number 134 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Hood Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on John Hood. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Hood
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood (June 1 or June 29, 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Although brave, Hood's impetuosity led to high losses among his troops as he moved up in rank. Bruce Catton wrote that "the decision to replace Johnston with Hood was probably the single largest mistake that either government made during the war". Hood's education at the United States Military Academy led to a career as a junior officer in the infantry and cavalry of the antebellum U.S. Army in California and Texas. At the start of the Civil War, he offered his services to his adopted state of Texas. He achieved his reputation for aggressive leadership as a brigade commander in the army of Robert E. Lee during the Seven Days Battles in 1862, after which he was promoted to division command. He led a division under James Longstreet in the campaigns of 1862–63. At the Battle of Gettysburg, he was severely wounded, rendering his left arm useless for the rest of his life. Transferred with many of Longstreet's troops to the Western Theater, Hood led a massive assault into a gap in the Union line at the Battle of Chickamauga, but was wounded again, requiring the amputation of his right leg.
Hood returned to field service during the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, and at the age of 33 was promoted to temporary full general and command of the Army of Tennessee at the outskirts of Atlanta, making him the youngest soldier on either side of the war to be given command of an army. There, he dissipated his army in a series of bold, calculated, but unsuccessful assaults, and was forced to evacuate the besieged city. Leading his men through Alabama and into Tennessee, his army was severely damaged in a massive frontal assault at the Battle of Franklin and he was decisively defeated at the Battle of Nashville by his former West Point instructor, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, after which he was relieved of command.
After the war, Hood moved to Louisiana and worked as a cotton broker and in the insurance business. His business was ruined by a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans during the winter of 1878–79 and he succumbed to the disease himself, dying just days after his wife and oldest child, leaving ten destitute orphans.
Source: John Bell Hood, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Hood (university administrator)
Sir John Antony Hood (born 2 January 1952) is a New Zealand businessman and administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 5 October 2004 until 30 September 2009. He was the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body in 900 years, and the first to have addressed the scholars' congregation via a webcast. In March 2007 New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark awarded him the World Class New Zealand supreme award to honour his contribution to profiling New Zealand and New Zealanders internationally. On 15 November 2007 he announced that he would not seek an extension to his five-year term as Vice Chancellor, and that he would leave Oxford in September 2009.
Source: John Hood (university administrator), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Linsley Hood
John Laurence Linsley-Hood (9 February 1925 in Wandsworth, London – 11 March 2004 in Taunton, Somerset) was an English electronics engineer and designer of audio components.
He was educated at Reading School, Acton Polytechnic, the Royal Technical College (Glasgow) and after World War Two, at Reading University. In 1942 Linsley-Hood joined the G.E.C. Research Laboratories at Wembley, working on magnetron development as junior member of a team. Joining the RAF aircrew in 1943, he was transferred to work on radar, then subsequently worked with T.R.E. (Malvern) overseas. After returning to university, Linsley-Hood joined the Windscale Research Laboratories of the Atomic Energy Authority. He was in charge of the electronics team in the Research Laboratories of British Cellophane Ltd. from 1954.
John Linsley-Hood is best remembered by hi-fi enthusiasts for his "Simple Class A Amplifier", which he developed to provide a good-quality performance comparable to that of the classic Williamson amplifier. The design was published in Wireless World in 1969 (April 1969 issue, p. 148), and later updated in 1996.
Linsley-Hood wrote for a number of magazines and published books on schematics for audio components, including:
* The Art of Linear Electronics (Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993)* Audio Electronics (Oxford, Newnes, 1995)* Valve and Transistor Audio Amplifiers (Oxford, Newnes, 1997)
Source: John Linsley Hood, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Hood
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