Researching Philip Eden
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3042 people with the Eden surname? In that year Eden was ranked number 1333 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Philip means "lover of horses" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Philip Eden on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Philip Eden 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 Philip Eden and the Eden Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Eden 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 Eden family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 4030 people with the Eden surname in the UK? Eden is now ranked number 1434 for popularity in the UK. |
Eden Genealogy Databases
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Eden Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Eden surname in the USA? Eden is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Eden Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Philip Eden. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Philip Eden
Philip Eden
Geoffrey Philip Eden FRMetS (14 July 1951 – 3 January 2018) was a leading British weather journalist and weather historian.
Philip Eden studied a BA in Geography before gaining a masters in applied meteorology and climatology at Birmingham University in 1972.
His career as a radio weather presenter began with the (then) London station LBC in 1983. He was subsequently chief network weather presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live from 1994 to 2005. He wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph from 1986 until forced to cease because of ill-health in 2015, and also had a daily "Weather Watch" column in the Daily Telegraph from 1998 to 2012. Eden wrote weekly features and monthly look-backs for WeatherOnline. He authored a number of books on British weather and climate.
Philip Eden was Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2007 to 2009. Eden was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society's Gordon Manley Weather Prize in 2000. The prize is awarded annually for any outstanding contribution to Weather through a paper or papers, or other outstanding service to Weather, in the preceding five years that has furthered the public understanding of meteorology and oceanography.
He was a member of Hampstead Scientific Society and Director of the Chilterns Observatory Trust from 2007. In the last few years of his life he was suffering from Lewy body dementia.
Source: Philip Eden, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Eden
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