Researching Martin Knapp
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2041 people with the Knapp surname? In that year Knapp was ranked number 1805 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Martin means "Warlike" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Martin Knapp on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Martin Knapp and the Knapp Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Knapp 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 Knapp family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Martin Knapp at Find My Past.
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| Did you know that there are currently 2456 people with the Knapp surname in the UK? Knapp is now ranked number 2079 for popularity in the UK. |
Knapp Family Tree Databases
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Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Martin Knapp.
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Find Martin Knapp from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Knapp 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.
Research the Knapp surname using Genealogy.com forums .
| Did you know that there are currently 48612 people with the Knapp surname in the USA? Knapp is ranked number 141 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Knapp Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Martin Knapp. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Martin Knapp
Martin Knapp
right|thumb|270px|Professor Martin Knapp, January 2014Martin Richard John Knapp, (born 8 August 1952) is an economist and policy analyst whose research, teaching and consultancy activities are concentrated in the areas of health and social care. As well as being Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics, he is Professor of Social Policy and Chair of LSE Health and Social Care. He also holds appointments as Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and has an honorary professorial positions in Hong Kong and the Czech Republic.
Knapp's current research specialises in mental health economics and policy (including financing, patterns of provision, mental health and employment, social exclusion, cost-effectiveness evaluations and international comparisons), and social care policy and practice (including consumer-directed services, financing arrangements and evaluation of service initiatives). He has published widely in these, and other, subject areas. His publications include about 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, about 140 book chapters, 15 books, 4 edited books, and numerous monographs.
He has been an advisor to many government departments and other bodies in the UK and elsewhere, and to international bodies such as the European Commission and World Health Organization. He was recently awarded one of the first 100 Senior Investigator Awards from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Knapp is the inaugural Director of the new NIHR School for Social Care Research. He is also a former England international runner, winning the 1981 Barcelona marathon in a time of 2hrs 18 minutes.
Knapp led on work undertaken by the LSE and commissioned by the Department of Health in England looking at the economic case for investing in mental health promotion and disease prevention. The report Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention: the economic case edited by Martin Knapp, together with David McDaid and Michael Parsonage was published by the Department of Health in April 2011.
Knapp was appointed as a member of the World Dementia Council, established after the G8 dementia summit in London December 2013. The council aims to stimulate innovation, development and commercialisation of life enhancing drugs, treatments and care for people with dementia, or at risk of dementia, within a generation. The Council met for the first time on 30 April 2014.
Knapp is a chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Horizon 2020 project PECUNIA, aiming to establish standardised costing and outcome assessment measures for optimised national healthcare provision in the European Union.
Knapp won the 4th Barcelona Marathon in a time of 2 hours 18 minutes, 56 seconds in 1981, at the age of 29.
Source: Martin Knapp, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Knapp
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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