Researching Lena Ek
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The name Lena means "light" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Lena Ek on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Lena Ek and the Ek Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Ek 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Ek family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Lena Ek at Find My Past.
Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Lena Ek using the FreeBMD database.
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Search the LDS Database for records about Lena Ek.
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Ek Family History Databases
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Ek Forums
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Miscellaneous Ek Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Lena Ek. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Lena Ek
Lena Ek
Lena Ek (born 16 January 1958 in Mönsterås, Kalmar County) is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for the Environment from 2011 to 2014. She is a former Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Riksdag. She is a member of the Centre Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
She sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She was also a substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Her son, Magnus Ek, was chairman of the Centre Party Youth from 2015 to 2019.
Source: Lena Ek, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Ek
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