Records of Peter Niekerk on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Peter Niekerk in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Peter Niekerk and the Niekerk Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Niekerk 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 Niekerk family tree.

Check out Parish Records for Peter Niekerk at Find My Past.

Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Peter Niekerk using the FreeBMD database.

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Niekerk Genealogy Databases

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Niekerk Forums

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Miscellaneous Niekerk Databases

Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Peter Niekerk. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Peter Niekerk

Peter van Niekerk

Petrus Reininus Johannes "Peter" van Niekerk (born 30 November 1971 in Hazerswoude) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. With Roy Heiner as helmsman and Dirk de Ridder as fellow crew member, Van Niekerk took the 4th place in the Soling. In the 2004 Olympics in Athena Van Niekerk made his second Olympic appearance. This time in the Star with Mark Neeleman as helmsman. They took 14th place.

In 1997–98, he was a crewmember on Volvo 60 yacht Brunel Sunergy in the Whitbread Round the World Race and in 2008–09 on yacht Delta Lloyd in the Volvo Ocean Race.

He sailed for ALL4ONE Challenge in the 2010 Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai.

Source: Peter van Niekerk, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Niekerk

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.

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