Researching Salim Lone
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 103 people with the Lone surname? In that year Lone was ranked number 3476 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Salim means "peace" and is of African origin.
Records of Salim Lone on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Salim Lone and the Lone Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Lone 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 Lone family tree.
Check out Parish Records for Salim Lone at Find My Past.
Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Salim Lone using the FreeBMD database.
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Search the LDS Database for records about Salim Lone.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 323 people with the Lone surname in the UK? Lone is now ranked number 3738 for popularity in the UK. |
Lone Family Tree Databases
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Lone Forums
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Miscellaneous Lone Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Salim Lone. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Salim Lone
Salim Lone
Salim Lone is a Kenyan journalist who was Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Spokesman (2007-2013, 2017-2018), and before that was a Director Communications under Kofi Annan at the United Nations, where he worked for two decades until retiring in 2003. His final UN assignment was as Spokesman in Baghdad for the head of the UN mission in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed with 21 other colleagues in a terrorist attack at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad; Salim Lone survived the bombing. Salim is now is writing a book on Kenya's political evolution in the post-Moi democratic era. Salim Lone has also been a columnist for the Daily Nation of Kenya (2005-2007), and his commentaries have also been published in The NY Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times in the UK, the Washington Post, The New Republic and The New York Review of Books. He has been frequently interviewed by the BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN, including on Charlie Rose, Newsnight, Inside Story and Larry King Live. Earlier, after working two years for the renowned Lester Markel, the Pulitzer prize-winning Editor of the Sunday New York Times, he returned to Kenya, where was the Editor in Chief between 1971 and 1982 of the Sunday Post and Viva magazine, the only mainstream media in the Kenyatta and Moi eras which consistently presented the political opposition's point of view. He is the only journalist in independent Kenya to have been prosecuted and convicted (along with democracy and environmental activist Wangari Maathai, later the Nobel Peace Prize winner) in court for his work (1981), and had to flee the country in 1982 to avoid arrest. His citizenship was subsequently revoked by President Moi for "disloyalty" to Kenya in 1986 but restored in 1993.
Source: Salim Lone, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Lone
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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