Records of Poon Lim on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Poon Lim 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

Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Lim ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Poon Lim and the Lim Family Tree

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

Check out Parish Records for Poon Lim at Find My Past.

Check out for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Poon Lim using the FreeBMD database.

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Search the LDS Database for records about Poon Lim.

Research the Lim surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Lim Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 1446 people with the Lim surname in the UK? Lim is now ranked number 2729 for popularity in the UK.

Lim 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.

Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Poon Lim.

Study MyTrees for information on the Lim family and people looking to contact living Lim relations.

Investigate One Great Family for Lim records submitted by people who are already researching the Lim Family Tree.

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Lim 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.

Research the Lim surname using Genealogy.com forums .

ukDid you know that there are currently 18229 people with the Lim surname in the USA? Lim is ranked number 151 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Lim Databases

Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Poon Lim. 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 Poon Lim

Poon Lim

Poon Lim BEM ( 8 March 1918 – 4 January 1991) was a Chinese sailor who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.

Lim worked as second steward on, a British merchant ship that was sunk by, a German U-boat, on 23 November 1942. He soon found an wooden raft with supplies. When the supplies ran low, Lim resorted to fishing, catching seabirds, and rain collection.

On 5 April 1943, Lim was rescued by three Brazilian fishermen as he neared the coast of Brazil. After his return to the United Kingdom, Lin was awarded a British Empire Medal by King George VI. After the war, Lim emigrated to the United States.

Source: Poon Lim, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Lim

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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