Researching Mortimer Taube
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The name Mortimer means "Lives Near the Sea" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Mortimer Taube on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mortimer Taube and the Taube Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Taube 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 Taube family tree.
Search Parish Records for Mortimer Taube at Find My Past.
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Taube Genealogy Databases
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Taube Forums
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Miscellaneous Taube Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Mortimer Taube. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Mortimer Taube
Mortimer Taube
Mortimer Taube (December 6, 1910 – September 3, 1965) was an American librarian. He is on the list of the 100 most important leaders in Library and Information Science of the 20th century. He was important to the Library Science field because he invented Coordinate Indexing, which uses "uniterms" in the context of cataloging. It is the forerunner to computer based searches. In the early 1950s he started his own company, Documentation, Inc. with Gerald J. Sophar. Previously he worked at such institutions as the Library of Congress, the Department of Defense, and the Atomic Energy Commission. American Libraries calls him "an innovator and inventor, as well as scholar and savvy businessman." Current Biography called him the "Dewey of mid-twentieth Librarianship." Mortimer Taube was a very active man with varying interests such as tennis, philosophy, sailing, music, and collecting paintings.
Source: Mortimer Taube, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Taube
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