Records of Peter Short on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Peter Short 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 Short and the Short Family Tree

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

Look at Parish Records for Peter Short at Find My Past.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 15467 people with the Short surname in the UK? Short is now ranked number 363 for popularity in the UK.

Short 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.

Explore the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Peter Short.

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Short 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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ukDid you know that there are currently 63803 people with the Short surname in the USA? Short is ranked number 136 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Short Databases

Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Peter Short. 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 Short

Peter Short (field hockey)

Peter Short (born April 26, 1976 in Richmond, British Columbia) is a field hockey player from Canada, whose brother Rob also represents the Men's National Team.

A striker, Short played for several years in the Dutch League with HGC and HC Rotterdam. He left Rotterdam after helping the club promote to the First Division in the spring of 2005. For the next two years, Short moved to the UK and played hockey for Surbiton Hockey Club in the south London area. During his time in London he studied Urban Planning at the University College of London, where he acquired a master's degree in International Planning at the University College London.

In the summer of 2007, Short and his Canadian National team members won gold at the Pan American Games in Brazil and by doing so, qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. That fall he moved to Amsterdam and played for Laren Hockey Club in the Netherlands and worked at CB Richard Ellis. The Canadian National Field Hockey Team finished in 10th position at the 2008 Olympic Games. Going into the Olympics Canada was ranked 15th in the world.

Source: Peter Short (field hockey), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Peter Short (rugby union)

Peter Short (born 20 June 1979 in Liverpool, England) was a rugby union footballer who played as a lock forward predominantly for Bath in the Aviva Premiership.

He began playing rugby at Adams' Grammar School, in Shropshire, captaining the team from the no. 8 position. He went on to attend UWIC, before moving to Loughborough University.

Short began his professional career with Moseley, before moving to top English side Leicester Tigers. There, he mostly played in the back row at blindside flanker. He spent four years at Leicester Tigers as part of the squad that were Premiership Champions from 1999-02 and back to back Heineken Cup winners 2001 & 2002, making 49 first XV appearances, before he moved to RC Narbonne of France and then to Bath. Bath went on to win the European Challenge Cup in the 2007-08 season.

He has converted from no. 8 to flanker to lock,

He was called into the England Saxons squad to face Italy A in Ragusa, Sicily on 9 February 2008.

The signing of Short was confirmed by Exeter Chiefs official website on 14 June 2011. Unfortunately, Short was forced to retire from rugby in 2012 having failed to recover from a badly broken leg.

Short represented England Saxons at the 2009 Churchill Cup.

Short now coaches sport at Canford School in Dorset.

Source: Peter Short (rugby union), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Short

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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