Researching Joya Sherrill
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Records of Joya Sherrill on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Joya Sherrill 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 Joya Sherrill and the Sherrill Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sherrill 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 Sherrill family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 10 people with the Sherrill surname in the UK? Sherrill is now ranked number 4032 for popularity in the UK. |
Sherrill Family Tree Databases
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Sherrill Forums
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Miscellaneous Sherrill Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Joya Sherrill. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Joya Sherrill
Joya Sherrill
Joya Sherrill (August 20, 1924 – June 28, 2010) was an American jazz vocalist and children's television show host.
Sherrill was born in Bayonne, New Jersey on August 20, 1924. Her first ambition was to become a writer: she was the editor of her school paper. She had a sister, Alice.
Sherrill began her career with Duke Ellington in July 1942 when she was seventeen. After a period at Wilberforce University, she rejoined in 1944 and remained with Ellington until 1946 when she left to marry Richard Guilmenot. Ellington considered her one of his favorite singers. "I never really left the band. I did recordings and special occasions. Duke would call me for jobs once a year at least," Sherrill told John S. Wilson in 1979. Sherrill also performed with Ellingtonians Ray Nance and Rex Stewart for many years. She worked with Ellington on the television broadcast of A Drum Is a Woman (1957), and toured the USSR with Benny Goodman in 1962. The album Joya Sherrill Sings Duke features Ellingtonians performing in support.
From 1970, Sherrill hosted a children's television show, Time for Joya, later called Joya's Fun School. This was recorded for a few years, but was rerun until 1982. In the mid-1970s, she accompanied her husband when he went to Iran for his work. There, she had her own television program, which was broadcast live. She returned to singing in New York near the end of that decade. Her husband died in 1989; they had a son and a daughter. Sherrill died from leukemia at home in Great Neck, New York on June 28, 2010.
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