Researching Oliver Tonks
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1575 people with the Tonks surname? In that year Tonks was ranked number 2114 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Oliver means "an olive" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Oliver Tonks on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Oliver Tonks and the Tonks Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Tonks 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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 Tonks family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 3089 people with the Tonks surname in the UK? Tonks is now ranked number 1777 for popularity in the UK. |
Tonks Family Tree Databases
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Tonks Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Oliver Tonks. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Oliver Tonks
Oliver Samuel Tonks
Oliver Samuel Tonks, Ph.D. (1874–1953) was a professor of art at Vassar College. He was born at Malden, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard (A.B., 1898; A.M., 1899; Ph.D., 1903), was instructor in classical Greek in the University of Vermont in 1903–04, lecturer at Columbia in 1904–05, and served at Princeton in 1905–11. He became professor of art at Vassar in 1911. He collaborated in writing The Art Museum and the Public School (1912), and he was a fellow of the American Classical School at Athens in 1901–02.
Source: Oliver Samuel Tonks, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Tonks
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