Researching Ken Thompson
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 89714 people with the Thompson surname? In that year Thompson was ranked number 18 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Ken means "Form of KENNETH. handsome" and is of Not available or unknown origin.
Records of Ken Thompson on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ken Thompson and the Thompson Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Thompson 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 Thompson family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 125559 people with the Thompson surname in the UK? Thompson is now ranked number 14 for popularity in the UK. |
Thompson Genealogy Databases
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Thompson Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 817288 people with the Thompson surname in the USA? Thompson is ranked number 14 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Thompson Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Ken Thompson. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-developed the Go programming language.
Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle. He won the Turing Award in 1983 with his long-term colleague Dennis Ritchie.
Source: Ken Thompson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Thompson
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