Researching Kit Cosper
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1 people with the Cosper surname? In that year Cosper was ranked number 3578 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Kit Cosper on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Kit Cosper and the Cosper Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cosper 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 Cosper family tree.
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Cosper Family History Databases
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Cosper Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Cosper surname in the USA? Cosper is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Cosper Databases
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Some Famous People called Kit Cosper
Kit Cosper
James Kitchen ‘Kit’ Cosper (born October 21, 1967) was the sixth employee at Red Hat and one of the founders of Linux Hardware Solutions (LHS) as well as a founding director of Linux International.
After LHS was acquired by VA Linux Cosper became Director of Miscellaneous at VA and eventually managed their Open Source advocacy group, consisting of Chris DiBona, Joseph Arruda and John Mark Walker.
During the Dot Com implosion of 2001 Cosper left VA and went on to serve as Executive Technical Advisor and interim CTO at Telkonet, a powerline networking startup in Germantown, Maryland.
He was married on May 5, 1990 in Wilmington, NC to Lourie Cosper and has three children: William (born March 1985), Keifer (born April 1993) and Elizabeth (born Jan. 1996). His first grandchild Hulet James Cosper, a namesake, was born in Jan. 2019 in Elmer, NJ to his oldest son William and his wife Elizabeth Cosper née Atwill.
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