Researching Lena Gurr
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1026 people with the Gurr surname? In that year Gurr was ranked number 2567 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Lena means "light" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Lena Gurr on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Lena Gurr and the Gurr Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Gurr 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 Gurr family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 1092 people with the Gurr surname in the UK? Gurr is now ranked number 3023 for popularity in the UK. |
Gurr Family History Databases
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Gurr Forums
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Some Famous People called Lena Gurr
Lena Gurr
Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings showing, as one critic said, "the joys and sorrows of everyday life." Another critic noted that her still lifes, city scenes, and depictions of vacation locales were imbued with "quiet humor," while her portrayal of slum-dwellers and the victims of warfare revealed a "ready sympathy" for victims of social injustice at home and of warfare abroad. During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it." Born into a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, she was the wife of Joseph Biel, also Russian-Jewish and an artist of similar genre and sensibility.
Source: Lena Gurr, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Gurr
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