Researching Robert Lady
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 16 people with the Lady surname? In that year Lady was ranked number 3563 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
Records of Robert Lady on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Robert Lady and the Lady Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Lady 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 Lady family tree.
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Some Famous People called Robert Lady
Robert Seldon Lady
Robert Seldon Lady (born February 2, 1954 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; nicknamed "Mister Bob") is a United States agent convicted of kidnapping in Italy for his role in the CIA's abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in February 2003, while Lady was CIA station chief in Milan.
Lady was arrested in Panama on July 18, 2013. He had been a fugitive from Italian police after being convicted of kidnapping Nasr in February 2003, in what the Italian press are referring to as the Imam Rapito (or "kidnapped imam") affair. He was released on July 19, 2013, and immediately boarded a flight directed to the United States.
Source: Robert Seldon Lady, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Lady
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