Researching Roger Stanier
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The name Roger means "famous spear" and is of German origin.
Records of Roger Stanier on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Roger Stanier and the Stanier Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Stanier 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 Stanier family tree.
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Stanier Family Tree Databases
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Stanier Forums
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Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Roger Stanier. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Roger Stanier
Roger Stanier
Roger Yate Stanier (22 October 1916 – 29 January 1982) was a Canadian microbiologist who was influential in the development of modern microbiology. As a member of the Delft School and former student of C. B. van Niel, he made important contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria, including the classification of blue-green algae as cyanobacteria. In 1957, he and co-authors wrote The Microbial World, an influential microbiology textbook which was published in five editions over three decades. In the course of 24 years at the University of California, Berkeley he reached the rank of professor and served as chair of the Department of Bacteriology before leaving for the Pasteur Institute in 1971. He received several awards over the course of his career, including the Leeuwenhoek Medal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences and the Légion d’Honneur.
Source: Roger Stanier, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Stanier
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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