Records of Martin Cooper on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Martin Cooper 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 Cooper 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 Martin Cooper and the Cooper Family Tree

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

Explore Parish Records for Martin Cooper at Find My Past.

Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Martin Cooper using the FreeBMD database.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 94703 people with the Cooper surname in the UK? Cooper is now ranked number 32 for popularity in the UK.

Cooper 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.

Look at the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Martin Cooper.

Study MyTrees for information on the Cooper family and people looking to contact living Cooper relations.

Search One Great Family for Cooper records submitted by people who are already researching the Cooper Family Tree.

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Cooper 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 343322 people with the Cooper surname in the USA? Cooper is ranked number 54 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Cooper Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Martin Cooper. 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 Martin Cooper

Martin Cooper (inventor)

Martin "Marty" Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.

While at Motorola in the 1970s, Cooper invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983. He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone" and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public, namely in 1973.

Cooper is co-founder of numerous communications companies with his wife and business partner Arlene Harris; He is co-founder and current Chairman of Dyna LLC, in Del Mar, California. Cooper also sits on committees supporting the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the United States Department of Commerce.

In 2010, Cooper was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for leadership in the creation and deployment of the cellular portable hand-held telephone.

Source: Martin Cooper (inventor), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Martin Cooper (rugby union)

Martin Cooper (born ) was an international rugby union player who won 11 caps between 1973 and 1977. A versatile player, he played International rugby at flyhalf and centre and first class rugby at full back and wing where he scored a try against the All Blacks at Moseley for the Midlands Counties West when they defeated them. His only international try was scored against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in a Guinness Book of Records record low scoring game, his being the only score in a 4-0 victory.

Martin Cooper began his career at Wolverhampton before moving to Moseley. He soon was called up to the England squad and won his first cap in 1973. In the same year he played for England against New Zealand in Auckland, 16-10, the first home country national side to beat them in NZ. Martin Johnsons side was the second.

He later captained Moseley for three years including a John Player Cup against Leicester. His last game was in another John Player Final (shared with Gloucester) in 1982. He retired that year.

Cooper is an Independent Financial Adviser with his own company, based in Worcester.

Source: Martin Cooper (rugby union), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Cooper

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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