Records of John Pook on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of John Pook 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

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Pook and the Pook Genealogy

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

Investigate Parish Records for John Pook at Find My Past.

Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of John Pook using the FreeBMD database.

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Pook 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.

Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for John Pook.

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Investigate One Great Family for Pook records submitted by people who are already researching the Pook Family Tree.

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Pook 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.

Research the Pook surname using Genealogy.com forums .

Miscellaneous Pook Databases

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

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John Pook

John Barrie Pook (born 2 February 1942) is a British poet.

John Pook was born at Neath in South Wales, but grew up in Gowerton, near Swansea, and attended Gowerton Boys Grammar School. He afterwards took master's degrees, in English at Queens' College, Cambridge University (1964), and in Linguistics at Bangor University.

He has worked as an editor for an airline reservation company, and lives in the South of France. He has contributed to many poetry magazines and anthologies, and has published two collections of his verse - That Cornish Facing Door published by Gomer Press (1975) and Needing the Experience (2008).

In 1971, Pook won the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry.

Source: John Pook, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia