Researching Peter Swire
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 299 people with the Swire surname? In that year Swire was ranked number 3280 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Peter means "A Rock" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Peter Swire on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Peter Swire 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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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Peter Swire and the Swire Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Swire 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 Swire family tree.
Explore Parish Records for Peter Swire at Find My Past.
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Research the Swire surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Swire Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 318 people with the Swire surname in the UK? Swire is now ranked number 3742 for popularity in the UK. |
Swire Family History Databases
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Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Peter Swire.
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Swire 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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Miscellaneous Swire Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Peter Swire. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Peter Swire
Peter Swire
Peter P. Swire (born May 15, 1958) is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair and Professor of Law and Ethics in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an internationally recognized expert in privacy law. Swire is also a senior fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum and a member of the National Academies of Science and Engineering Forum on Cyber Resilience. During the Clinton Administration, he became the first person to hold the position of Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget. In this role, he coordinated administration policy on privacy and data protection, including interfacing with privacy officials in foreign countries. He may be best known for shaping the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule while serving as the Chief Counselor for Privacy. In November, 2012 he was named as co-chair of the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to attempt to mediate a global Do Not Track standard. In August 2013, President Obama named Swire as one of five members of the Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies.
Source: Peter Swire, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Swire
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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