Researching Peter Stanley
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The name Peter means "A Rock" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Peter Stanley on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Peter Stanley and the Stanley Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Stanley 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 Stanley family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 17900 people with the Stanley surname in the UK? Stanley is now ranked number 301 for popularity in the UK. |
Stanley Family Tree Databases
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Stanley Forums
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Miscellaneous Stanley Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Peter Stanley. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Peter Stanley
Peter Stanley
Peter Alan Stanley (born 28 October 1956) is an Australian historian and research professor at the University of New South Wales in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society. He was Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia from 2007–13. Between 1980 and 2007 he was an historian and sometime exhibition curator at the Australian War Memorial, including as head of the Historical Research Section and Principal Historian from 1987. He has written eight books about Australia and the Great War since 2005, and was a joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011.
Source: Peter Stanley, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Stanley
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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