Researching Roland Anderson
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The name Roland means "Famed Throughout the Land" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Roland Anderson on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Roland Anderson and the Anderson Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Anderson 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 Anderson family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 80370 people with the Anderson surname in the UK? Anderson is now ranked number 43 for popularity in the UK. |
Anderson Family History Databases
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Anderson Forums
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Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Roland Anderson. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Roland Anderson
Roland Anderson
Roland Anderson (November 18, 1903 – October 29, 1989) was an American movie art director. He received 15 Academy Award nominations but never won an Oscar. Anderson's first Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, A Farewell to Arms. A frequent collaborator with Cecil B. DeMille - he worked on Cleopatra (1934), The Buccaneer (1938) and North West Mounted Police (1940) - as well as such other classics as Holiday Inn (1942), Road to Utopia (1946), Son of Paleface (1952) and Will Penny (1967).
Those 15 nominations were for:* "A Farewell to Arms" (1933) * "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1935)* "Souls at Sea" (1937)* "North West Mounted Police" (1940)* "Take a Letter Darling" (1942) * "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942)* "Love Letters" (1945)* "Carrie" (1952)* "The Country Girl" (1954)* "Red Garters" (1954)* "It Started in Naples" (1960)* "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)* "The Pigeon That Took Rome" (1962)* "Love with the Proper Stranger" (1963)* "Come Blow Your Horn" (1963)
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