Researching Robert Phillipson
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1111 people with the Phillipson surname? In that year Phillipson was ranked number 2491 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
Records of Robert Phillipson on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Robert Phillipson 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 Robert Phillipson and the Phillipson Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Phillipson 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 Phillipson family tree.
Investigate Parish Records for Robert Phillipson at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Robert Phillipson using the FreeBMD database.
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Search the LDS Database for records about Robert Phillipson.
Research the Phillipson surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Phillipson Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 1683 people with the Phillipson surname in the UK? Phillipson is now ranked number 2556 for popularity in the UK. |
Phillipson Family Tree Databases
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Phillipson 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.
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Miscellaneous Phillipson Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Robert Phillipson. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Robert Phillipson
Robert Phillipson
Robert Henry Lawrence Phillipson (born 18 March 1942 in Gourock, Scotland) is Research Professor at Copenhagen Business School's Department of English. He is perhaps best known for writing Linguistic Imperialism and English-Only Europe?: Challenging Language Policy (translated into Esperanto by István Ertl: Ĉu nur-angla Eŭropo? Defio al lingva politiko). He graduated as an undergraduate from Cambridge University
He got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and his interests include language pedagogy, language policy, and linguistic human rights.
On 21 February 2010, Phillipson was awarded the Linguapax Prize along with Miquel Siguan i Soler. The Linguapax Institute describes them as "renowned advocates of multilingual education as a factor of peace and of linguistic rights against cultural and linguistic homogenization processes".
Source: Robert Phillipson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Phillipson
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