Researching Joseph Young
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 64336 people with the Young surname? In that year Young was ranked number 38 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Joseph means "God shall add (another son)" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Joseph Young on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joseph Young and the Young Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Young 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 Young family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Joseph Young at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Joseph Young using the FreeBMD database.
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| Did you know that there are currently 83177 people with the Young surname in the UK? Young is now ranked number 40 for popularity in the UK. |
Young Family Tree Databases
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Young Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 586382 people with the Young surname in the USA? Young is ranked number 25 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Joseph Young
Joseph Young (conductor)
Joseph Young (born 1982, Goose Creek, South Carolina, USA) is an American orchestra conductor.
From a family of 3 children, with a military father, Young played trumpet as a youth in South Carolina. His interest in conducting began at age 16. In 2004, Young received a bachelor's degree in Music Education from the University of South Carolina. After graduation, he taught band at D. W. Daniel High School in Central, South Carolina. In 2007, Young became the first recipient of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra-Peabody Conducting Fellowship. At Peabody, he studied conducting under Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar, graduating in 2009. He participated in a conducting workshop at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and subsequently became a conducting student of Marin Alsop.
Young was resident conductor of the Phoenix Symphony for 2 seasons. He was also a conducting fellow with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for one year. In 2013, he was a Semi-finalist in the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg, Germany. In 2014, Young became assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony and music director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. He served in these Atlanta posts until 2018. He is also the Resident Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra (USA) at Carnegie Hall, and Director of Ensembles at the Peabody Conservatory.
In January 2019, Young first guest-conducted the Berkeley Symphony, as an emergency substitute conductor. Based on this concert, in April 2019, the Berkeley Symphony announced the appointment of Young as its next music director, effective with the 2019-2020 season, with an initial contract of 3 years. This appointment marks Young's first music directorship.
Source: Joseph Young (conductor), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJoseph Young (artist)
Joseph Young (1919–2007) was an artist well known for his public artwork, which included mosaic murals, stained glass windows, monuments and public sculptures in granite, concrete, and bronze. Over the course of his career Young completed over sixty commissions for civic, church, synagogue and other public spaces, as well as privately collected works in oil, mosaic, ceramics and other media. His largest work is the mosaic West Apse of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., entitled "The Woman Clothed With The Sun." Notable works in Los Angeles include the Holocaust Monument (Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles), the mosaic bas-relief on the Richard Neutra-desigined Los Angeles County Hall of Records, mosaic panels on the exterior of the UCLA Math Sciences Building, and the Triforium (Los Angeles). in Fletcher Bowron Square on the Los Angeles Mall at the Civic Center, Los Angeles.
Source: Joseph Young (artist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Young
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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