Records of Jorge Silva on Ancestry

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

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

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ukDid you know that there are currently 1491 people with the Silva surname in the UK? Silva is now ranked number 2693 for popularity in the UK.

Silva 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 Jorge Silva.

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Silva 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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ukDid you know that there are currently 127606 people with the Silva surname in the USA? Silva is ranked number 115 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Silva Databases

Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Jorge Silva. 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 Jorge Silva

Jorge Moreira da Silva

Jorge Manuel Lopes Moreira da Silva, GOIH (born 24 April 1971 in Vila Nova de Famalicão) is a Portuguese politician and an international expert on climate change, carbon finance, energy and environmental policy. He is a Member of the Portuguese Parliament. He was the Minister of Environment, Territorial Planning and Energy from 2013 to 2015 in the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.

As Minister on Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy he was responsible for energy, water, waste, spatial planning and housing sector structural reforms in Portugal. Under his leadership Portugal adopted a comprehensive Green Taxation Reform and the Portuguese Green Growth Commitment.

Jorge Moreira da Silva was, from 2009 to 2012, Senior Environmental Finance Advisor and Program Manager for Climate Change Innovative Finance at the Bureau for Policy Development at UNDP – United Nations Development Programme. At UNDP, Jorge has worked on the post-2012 climate change negotiations, on the establishment of innovative financing strategies on climate change and energy, and on the development of climate change market-based mechanisms.

Mr. Moreira da Silva has been a Visiting Professor and invited speaker on development, climate change, energy, environment and carbon markets at several Portuguese and international universities and institutions. He is Member of the European Commission High-Level Group on Research, Innovation, and Science Policy (RISE) and was also a member of the advisory committee of CIRCLE (Climate Impact Research Coordination for a Larger Europe).

He has served as: Senior Advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, Consultant to the President of the European Commission, Consultant to the European Investment Bank, EIB, Member (elected) of the Portuguese Parliament, Secretary of State on Environment and Spatial Planning at the Portuguese Government, Secretary of State on Science and Higher Education at the Portuguese Government, Member (elected) of the European Parliament, and Vice-President of GLOBE-Europe.

He is a member of the Social Democratic Party. In April 2010, Jorge Moreira da Silva was elected Vice-President of the national board of the Social Democratic Party and since 2012 he is the First Vice-President and Standing Coordinator of the Social Democratic Party, chaired by Pedro Passos Coelho. From 1995 to 1998 he was the leader of Juventude Social Democrata, the youth organization of the party.

He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Lisbon-based think-tank Platform for a Sustainable Growth.

Source: Jorge Moreira da Silva, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Silva

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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