Records of Joseph Leidy on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Joseph Leidy 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 Joseph Leidy and the Leidy Family History

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Leidy Genealogy Databases

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Leidy Forums

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Miscellaneous Leidy Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Joseph Leidy. 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 Joseph Leidy

Joseph Leidy

Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist.

Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College and the director of scientific and educational programs at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska (1869) contained many species not previously described and many previously unknown on the North American continent. At the time, scientific investigation was largely the province of wealthy amateurs.

The Leidy Glacier in northwest Greenland was named by Robert Peary after him.

Source: Joseph Leidy, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Leidy

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