Records of Peter Philips on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Peter Philips 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. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Philips 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 Peter Philips and the Philips Family History

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

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Philips Family History 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.

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Philips 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.

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Some Famous People called Peter Philips

Peter Philips (politician)

Peter Sydney Maitland Philips AM (12 May 1927 – 11 May 2009) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1988.

Philips was born in Bellevue Hill. He was educated at Barker College in Hornsby from 1939 to 1944. He served in the AIF from 1945 to 1946, and later worked as a solicitor. He was a director of Macquarie Equities and Marlar International, and founded Merchant Bank and Philips First City Brandt, which later became Citinational. Active in the Liberal Party, Philips was a president of the electoral councils for the federal seat of Bradfield and the state seat of Hornsby.

In 1976, Philips was appointed as a Liberal member to the New South Wales Legislative Council. He was divorced from his first wife on 26 April 1979, and married his second wife Helen Larcombe in December 1980. Philips served in the Council until his retirement in 1988. He was Chairman of the Odyssey House McGrath Foundation from 1989 to 2000. Philips died in 2009 in Sydney.

Source: Peter Philips (politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Philips

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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