Researching Mark Selden
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 104 people with the Selden surname? In that year Selden was ranked number 3475 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Mark means "warlike" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Mark Selden on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mark Selden and the Selden Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 132 people with the Selden surname in the UK? Selden is now ranked number 3918 for popularity in the UK. |
Selden Family Tree Databases
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Selden Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Selden surname in the USA? Selden is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Mark Selden
Mark Selden
Mark Selden (born 1938) is a coordinator of the open-access journal The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, a senior research associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University, and Bartle Professor of History and Sociology at Binghamton University. He graduated from Amherst College with a major in American Studies and completed a Ph.D. at Yale University in modern Chinese history. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars in the 1960s and for more than thirty years served on the board of editors of The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (later Critical Asian Studies). He is also the editor of book series at Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge, and M.E. Sharpe publishers.
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Other names that sound a bit like Selden
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