Researching Raymond Yong
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The name Raymond means "mighty protector" and is of English origin.
Records of Raymond Yong on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Raymond Yong and the Yong Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Yong 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 Yong family tree.
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Yong Family Tree Databases
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Yong Forums
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Miscellaneous Yong Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Raymond Yong. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Raymond Yong
Raymond Yong
Raymond Yong, (born April 10, 1929 in Singapore) is a retired Canadian environmental engineer. His father, Yong Ngim Djin, was principal of Anglo-Chinese School, and he first studied in the United States at Washington & Jefferson College due to his godfather, who was a Methodist missionary. He started in medicine, but switched to physics. He became an important instructor at McGill University. He is also an authority on contaminated soil and has 60 patents. In 1985 he won the Izaak-Walton-Killam Award.
Source: Raymond Yong, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Yong
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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