Records of Roy Laing on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Roy Laing 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Roy Laing and the Laing Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Laing 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 Laing family tree.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 7496 people with the Laing surname in the UK? Laing is now ranked number 787 for popularity in the UK.

Laing Family Tree Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

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Laing 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 Laing Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Roy Laing. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Roy Laing

Roy Laing

William Roy Laing (4 April 1893 – 11 April 1972) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) before and after the First World War.

Laing, originally from Western Australia, was recruited to Essendon from the Beverley Juniors in Richmond. A half back flanker, he was a member of Essendon's back to back premiership teams in 1923 and 1924. He represented the Victorian interstate side five times, one of them as captain against South Australia in 1921. Laing was considered to be likely to move to the Hawthorn Football Club when they entered the league in 1925, but this did not occur. In 1937 and 1938, Laing was non playing coach of Camberwell.

Source: Roy Laing, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Laing

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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