Researching Phillip Osborne
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The name Phillip means "Loving" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Phillip Osborne on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Phillip Osborne and the Osborne Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Osborne 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 Osborne family tree.
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Osborne Family Tree Databases
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Osborne Forums
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Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Phillip Osborne. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Phillip Osborne
Phillip Osborne
Phillip Osborne (16 March 1904 – 23 August 1936) was an early travelling companion of Sir Wilfred Thesiger, educated at Christ's Hospital and Pembroke College, Oxford University. Osborne was a keen student of Greats and French Literature, gaining a first class degree before travelling to Syria where he became fluent in Arabic and conversant with Iron Age Semitic Culture. He first met with Thesiger at Abyssinia's Awash River, later exploring the remote parts of the country with its Danakil nomads. His subsequent work and study, which was intended for publication by 1935 under the title 'Danakil', was lost to fire. Osborne died of an undiagnosed fever at Suez in 1936.
Category:British explorersCategory:People educated at Christ's HospitalCategory:1904 birthsCategory:1936 deathsCategory:Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
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