Researching Margaret Allan
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 18801 people with the Allan surname? In that year Allan was ranked number 199 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Margaret means "child of light" and is of Persian origin.
Records of Margaret Allan on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Margaret Allan 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. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Allan 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 Margaret Allan and the Allan Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Allan 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 Allan family tree.
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Research the Allan surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Allan Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 22473 people with the Allan surname in the UK? Allan is now ranked number 235 for popularity in the UK. |
Allan Family Tree 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.
Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Margaret Allan.
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Allan 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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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Allan surname in the USA? Allan is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Allan Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Margaret Allan. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Margaret Allan
Margaret Allan (racing driver)
Margaret Mabel Gladys Jennings (née Allan; 26 July 1909 – 21 September 1998) was a Scottish motor racing driver. As Margaret Allan (sometimes erroneously "Allen") she was one of the leading British female racing and rally drivers in the inter-war years, and one of only four women ever to earn a 120 mph badge at the Brooklands circuit. During the war, Jennings worked as an ambulance driver and then at Bletchley Park's intelligence de-coding centre, and afterwards became a journalist and was Vogue magazine's motoring correspondent from 1948 to 1957.
Source: Margaret Allan (racing driver), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Margaret Allan (romance author)
Margaret Allan (8 December 1922 – 27 June 2017) was an author of romance novels from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. Her first success as an author came when she entered a short story for a Yorkshire Evening Post competition in 1973, which she won, and she began writing novels professionally in 1975. Allan continued writing well into her 80s, and during her long career published over 40 books. Many of her novels were set in her native county, including a cycle of four stories set in the fictional village of Nydd Beck. Allan described her works as "not goody-goody books [but] not blow by blow descriptions of sex either." Her books have been translated into a number of languages, including Danish and Slovak, and include audio book editions.
Allan died at the age of 94, on 27 June 2017.
Source: Margaret Allan (romance author), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Allan
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