Records of Melvin Rees on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Melvin Rees 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 Rees 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 Melvin Rees and the Rees Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Rees 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Rees family tree.

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Rees Genealogy Databases

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Rees 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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Miscellaneous Rees Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Melvin Rees. 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 Melvin Rees

Melvin Rees

Melvin David Rees (1928 – October 26, 1995) was an American serial killer who committed five murders in Virginia and Maryland between 1957 and 1959. He murdered and sexually assaulted Margaret Harold, the girlfriend of US Army soldier Sgt. Roy D. Hudson, during a highway encounter near Annapolis. Two years later, he murdered the four members of the Jackson family near Fredericksburg, Virginia. After his conviction for the killings, Rees confessed to two other murders, and authorities believed he was involved in two more.

Prior to his arrest and imprisonment, Rees was a lover of actress and topless dancer Pat Barrington and was a prominent jazz musician in the Washington, D.C. area.

Source: Melvin Rees, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Rees

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