Researching Little Thunder
Delve into the history of Little Thunder using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
Records of Little Thunder on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Little Thunder 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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DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. If you are lucky then you may find some previously undiscovered Thunder ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Little Thunder and the Thunder Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Thunder 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 Thunder family tree.
Search Parish Records for Little Thunder at Find My Past.
Check out for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Little Thunder using the FreeBMD database.
Search Genealogy Bank for Little Thunder records.
Check out MyHeritage for Little Thunder information.
Study the LDS Database for records about Little Thunder.
Research the Thunder surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Thunder Military records.
Thunder 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.
Look at the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Little Thunder.
Study MyTrees for information on the Thunder family and people looking to contact living Thunder relations.
Explore One Great Family for Thunder records submitted by people who are already researching the Thunder Family Tree.
Find Little Thunder from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Thunder 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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Miscellaneous Thunder Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Little Thunder. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Little Thunder
Little Thunder
Wakíŋyaŋ Čík’ala (Little Thunder)(1820-1879) was a Brulé Lakota chief. He took over as chief of the Brulé after the death of Conquering Bear by U.S. Army soldiers in a dispute about a wandering Mormon cow in 1854, which had prompted the Grattan Massacre of approximately 30 U.S. Army troops on August 19, 1854 and led to the First Sioux War. The U.S. Army sent 600 troops led by Brevet Gen. William S. Harney to Little Thunder's village on Blue Water Creek, a tributary of the Platte River in Nebraska, and now known as Ash Hollow State Historical Park. Little Thunder was wounded and captured during the Battle of Ash Hollow of September 2 and 3, 1855, in which approximately 86 Sioux (including women and children) were killed and another 70 captured. Little Thunder was then deposed, although his son would lead a rebellion in 1865, and a teenager who witnessed the massacre, Crazy Horse, would become a war leader two decades and defeat U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Little Thunder lived his final years on the Rosebud Indian Reservation of the Dakota Territory.
Source: Little Thunder, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Thunder
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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