Records of Jonathan Schaeffer on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Jonathan Schaeffer in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. 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 Jonathan Schaeffer and the Schaeffer Family Tree

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

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Some Famous People called Jonathan Schaeffer

Jonathan Schaeffer

Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence.

He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs. He is involved in the University of Alberta GAMES group developing computer poker systems. Schaeffer is also a member of the research group that created Polaris, a program designed to play the Texas Hold'em variant of poker. He is a Founder of Onlea, which produces online learning experiences.

Source: Jonathan Schaeffer, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Schaeffer

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