Records of May Don on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of May Don 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for May Don and the Don Genealogy

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

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Don Family Tree Databases

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Don Forums

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Some Famous People called May Don

May Don

Frances May Don (24 October 1898 – 22 July 1965) was a New Zealand factory inspector, political activist, and welfare worker. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 24 October 1898.

Don began her career in politics at the beginning of the 1930s as a member of the New Zealand Labour Party in South Dunedin. In 1936, she worked as a factory inspector out of Wellington, and went on to become a permanent member of the Department of Labour. While in Wellington, Don was also an active member in the Elizabeth McCombs Club, which encouraged women to actively participate in public life and the public sector. Additionally, Don was an active member of the National Council of Women of New Zealand, and in the 1940s, she focused on increasing wages for women in order to lessen the gender wage gap.

Frances May Don continued to be an active member of the National Council of Women of New Zealand until 1960, and died in 1965 of breast cancer.

Source: May Don, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Don

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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