Researching Nigel Wilson
Dig into the past of Nigel Wilson using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
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The name Nigel means "dark" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Nigel Wilson on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Nigel Wilson in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. 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. If you are lucky then you may find some previously undiscovered Wilson 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 Nigel Wilson and the Wilson Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Wilson 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 Wilson family tree.
Investigate Parish Records for Nigel Wilson at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Nigel Wilson using the FreeBMD database.
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Research the Wilson surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Wilson Military records.
![]() | Did you know that there are currently 182727 people with the Wilson surname in the UK? Wilson is now ranked number 7 for popularity in the UK. |
Wilson Genealogy 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.
Look at the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Nigel Wilson.
Study MyTrees for information on the Wilson family and people looking to contact living Wilson relations.
Search One Great Family for Wilson records submitted by people who are already researching the Wilson Family Tree.
Find Nigel Wilson from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Wilson 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 Wilson surname using Genealogy.com forums .
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Miscellaneous Wilson Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Nigel Wilson. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Nigel Wilson
Nigel Wilson
Nigel Edward Wilson (born January 12, 1970) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball player from Oshawa, Ontario. He played for the Florida Marlins, Cincinnati Reds, and Cleveland Indians. He also spent six highly successful seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball with the Nippon Ham Fighters and Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. He now owns a sports training facility in Ajax, Ontario. Training today’s youth to hit dingers the way he use to. Nigel has become a Canadian icon to his friends and family and a true ambassador to the sport.
Source: Nigel Wilson, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Nigel Wilson (Classicist)
Nigel Guy Wilson (born 23 July 1935) is a British scholar, emeritus fellow and tutor in Classics, Lincoln College, Oxford. His field of research is ancient Greek history, language and literature, and culture, art and archaeology of the Byzantine world. Since retiring in 2002 he has continued his researches into Greek palaeography, textual criticism and the history of classical scholarship. In the series of Oxford Classical Texts his edition of Aristophanes appeared in 2007, and a new edition of Herodotus for the same series appeared in 2015. Another substantial piece of work was a contribution to the study of the famous Archimedes Palimpsest, which was sold at auction in New York in 1998 for $2,000,000; the results of a collaboration lasting ten years and involving experts in various fields appeared in The Archimedes palimpsest (Cambridge University Press 2011), which was described by the reviewer in the TLS as "the most beautiful book produced in this century".
Source: Nigel Wilson (Classicist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Wilson
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.
Walczynski Walkenhorst Walkenshaw Walkin Walkingshaw Walkingstick Walkington Walkinshaw Walkom Wallsam Walsham Walsingham Walsma Walsmith Walsom Weilkamp Welchance Welchman Welcman Welcome Welhausen Welikanna Wellcome Wellsandt Wellsman Welshans Welshons Welsing Welzenbach Welzien Wilcinskis Wilhausen Wilken Wilkenhoner Wilkening Wilkennson Wilkens Wilkenson Wilkin Wilking Wilkins Wilkinson Willeson Willison Willkomm Willsman Willsmith Willson Wilshin Wilsone Wilsonne Wilsonsarah Wohlgamuth Wohlgemuth Wohlsen Wolchanski Wolgamott Wolkens Wolleson Woloschin Woloschinski Woloson Wolsencroft Wolzen Woolson Wulzen





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