Records of Marcel Plank on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Marcel Plank 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

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Marcel Plank and the Plank Genealogy

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

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Plank Genealogy Databases

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Plank 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 Plank Databases

Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Marcel Plank. 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 Marcel Plank

Marcel van der Plank

Marcel van der Plank (born 10 March 1951) was the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands Antilles, until its dissolution in 2010. He was appointed in 2009, and succeeded Paul Comenencia, who stepped down after being appointed Consul General in Rio de Janeiro.

Van der Plank was born on 10 March 1951 in Curaçao. He studied Notary Law in Utrecht and graduated in 1973. He practised as a notary in Curaçao from 1978. Van der Plank was one of the founders of the Real Alternative Party. After the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, he became chairman of Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao, the monument trust of Curaçao. He retired in 2021, because there was a ten year limit in the statues of the foundation.

Van der Plank is married and has three sons.

Source: Marcel van der Plank, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Plank

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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