Records of John Lees on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of John Lees 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Lees and the Lees Family Tree

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

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Lees Genealogy 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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Lees 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 Lees Databases

Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on John Lees. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called John Lees

John Lees (bodybuilder)

John Lees (born 1930) (Died November 2021) was an English bodybuilder and later a professional wrestler who won Mr. Universe in 1957. Lees was born in Stalybridge in 1930. In retirement, Lees operated a gym called John Lees Fitness Centre in Stalybridge, until it was destroyed by a fire in 2005.

He has taken part in the following bodybuilding competitions:

*1949: Mr Britain - HSL, 3rd*1950: Mr Britain - HSL, 3rd*1950: Mr Universe - NABBA, Medium-Tall, 1st*1952: Mr Universe - NABBA, Tall, 2nd*1953: Mr Britain - HSL, Winner*1953: Mr Europe - 4th*1953: Mr Universe - NABBA, Tall, 2nd*1954: Mr Universe - NABBA, Tall, 2nd*1955: Mr Universe - NABBA, Tall, 3rd*1956: Mr Universe - NABBA, Tall, 2nd*1957: Mr Universe - NABBA, Tall, 1st*1957: Mr Universe - NABBA, Overall Winner

Source: John Lees (bodybuilder), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

John Lees (artist)

John Lees (born February 3, 1943) is an American contemporary expressionist artist who works primarily in painting.

Lees received the 2005 Francis J. Greenburger Award and has also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symonds Art Purchase Award in 2010, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant in 1993 and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1989. His paintings are included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Fogg Art Museum, The New Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Arkansas Art Center, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Tucson Museum of Art.

Lees also served as an art professor for 40 years at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (1988–2011), the School of Visual Arts (1987–2005), Sarah Lawrence College (2000–2003), State University of New York at New Paltz (1996–2000), and Mt. San Antonio College (1971–1981).

Source: John Lees (artist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Lees

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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