Records of Roy Spencer on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Roy Spencer 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 Spencer and the Spencer Family History

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

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ukDid you know that there are currently 33799 people with the Spencer surname in the UK? Spencer is now ranked number 137 for popularity in the UK.

Spencer Family History 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.

Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Roy Spencer.

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Spencer 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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ukDid you know that there are currently 173180 people with the Spencer surname in the USA? Spencer is ranked number 100 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Spencer Databases

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

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Roy Spencer (baseball)

Roy Hampton Spencer (February 22, 1900 – February 8, 1973) was an American professional baseball catcher. He played fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1925 to 1938 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, New York Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers.

He helped the Pirates win the 1925 World Series and the 1927 National League Pennant and the Giants win the 1936 NL Pennant.

In 12 seasons he played in 636 Games and had 1,814 At Bats, 177 Runs, 448 Hits, 57 Doubles, 13 Triples, 3 Home Runs, 203 RBI, 4 Stolen Bases, 128 Walks, .247 Batting Average, .301 On-base percentage, .298 Slugging Percentage, 540 Total Bases and 42 Sacrifice Hits. Defensively, he recorded a .984 fielding percentage.

He died in Port Charlotte, Florida at the age of 72.

Source: Roy Spencer (baseball), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia