Records of Leonard Ward on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Leonard Ward 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Leonard Ward and the Ward Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Ward 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 Ward family tree.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 90824 people with the Ward surname in the UK? Ward is now ranked number 33 for popularity in the UK.

Ward Genealogy Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Leonard Ward.

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Ward Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 328131 people with the Ward surname in the USA? Ward is ranked number 57 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Ward Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Leonard Ward. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Leonard Ward

Leonard Keith Ward

Leonard Keith Ward (17 February 1879 – 30 September 1964) was an Australian geologist and public servant.

Ward was born in Petersham, New South Wales and was educated at Sydney and Brisbane Grammar Schools then the University of Sydney (B.A., 1900; B.E., 1903) where he was taught by Edgeworth David.

Ward work for Broken Hill Proprietary then at the Western Australian School of Mines, Kalgoorlie, from 1903. He played one first-class cricket match for Tasmania in 1907–08. In 1919 he became secretary to the minister of mines.

Ward was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1930 and the Verco Medal by the Royal Society of South Australia in 1955.

Source: Leonard Keith Ward, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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