Researching Nigel Thrift
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 365 people with the Thrift surname? In that year Thrift was ranked number 3214 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Nigel means "dark" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Nigel Thrift on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Nigel Thrift and the Thrift Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 312 people with the Thrift surname in the UK? Thrift is now ranked number 3748 for popularity in the UK. |
Thrift Family Tree Databases
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Thrift Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Thrift surname in the USA? Thrift is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Thrift Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Nigel Thrift. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift
Sir Nigel John Thrift (born 12 October 1949 in Bath) is a British academic and geographer. In 2018 he was appointed as Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, a committee that gives independent scientific and technical advice on radioactive waste to the UK government and the devolved administrations. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and Tsinghua University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol. In 2016 and 2017 he was the executive director of the Schwarzman Scholars, an international leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2006 to 2016. He is a leading academic in the fields of human geography and the social sciences.
Source: Nigel Thrift, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Thrift
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