Researching Mort Castle
Dig into the past of Mort Castle using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5949 people with the Castle surname? In that year Castle was ranked number 714 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Mort means "Form of MORTON. From the Town Near the Moor" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Mort Castle on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Mort Castle in your family tree. With over 30 billion records and 100 million family trees to search, Ancestry is one of the key websites to visit to help you trace your family tree back in time. 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 Castle 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 Mort Castle and the Castle Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Castle 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 Castle family tree.
Investigate Parish Records for Mort Castle at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Mort Castle using the FreeBMD database.
Check out Genealogy Bank for Mort Castle records.
Look at MyHeritage for Mort Castle information.
Check out the LDS Database for records about Mort Castle.
Research the Castle surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Castle Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 6566 people with the Castle surname in the UK? Castle is now ranked number 920 for popularity in the UK. |
Castle 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.
Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Mort Castle.
Study MyTrees for information on the Castle family and people looking to contact living Castle relations.
Look at One Great Family for Castle records submitted by people who are already researching the Castle Family Tree.
Find Mort Castle from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Castle 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 Castle surname using Genealogy.com forums .
| Did you know that there are currently 27344 people with the Castle surname in the USA? Castle is ranked number 148 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Castle Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Mort Castle. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Mort Castle
Mort Castle
Mort Castle (born 1946) is an American horror author and writing teacher, with more than 500 short stories and 17 books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child (Leisure Books, 1994) and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional literary magazines to more off-the-wall or risqué markets. He has been nominated eleven times for the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction and was winner three times.
A dedicated writing teacher, Castle has been a working musician, a standup comic, a stage hypnotist, a high school English teacher (for 11 years), and a magazine and comic book editor. He is currently writer-in-residence for two high schools, and teaching "Researching and Writing Historical Fiction" and "Story In Graphic Form" and other classes at Columbia College Chicago. He is a frequent keynote speaker at writing conferences, and has given over 1000 presentations to writers, would-be writers, and teachers of writing. One of his latest books, Writing Horror, for which he served as editor, has become the "bible" for aspiring horror authors. It also includes interviews with some of horror's top stars, such as Stephen King. Castle is also the Executive Editor of Thorby Comics, and currently fiction editor for Doorways Magazine.
Castle has been a regular contributor to Eureka Productions' Graphic Classics series since 2006, with work in Graphic Classics: Jack London, (second edition), Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce (second edition), Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker (second edition), Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson (second edition), Graphic Classics: O. Henry, and Graphic Classics: Halloween Classics.
In August 2013 it was announced that Castle will be scripting the Red Giant Entertainment comic book Darchon, an ongoing feature of their Giant-Size Comics line of free print comic book titles set to debut on May 3, 2014, as part of Free Comic Book Day. Darchon will appear monthly in Giant-Size Thrills, their horror-focused title.
Mort Castle's short story, Oval Portrait, was published in 3Elements Literary Review's fall issue no. 8, in October 2015.
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