Records of Samuel Abt on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Samuel Abt 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 Samuel Abt and the Abt Family Tree

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

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Abt Family Tree Databases

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Abt Forums

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Miscellaneous Abt Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Samuel Abt. 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 Samuel Abt

Samuel Abt

Samuel Abt (born 1934) is an American sports journalist and author who covered professional cycling for 31 years, publishing articles in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune, among others. He devoted much time to chronicling the careers of English-speaking riders, especially Lance Armstrong and Greg LeMond.

Abt wrote 10 books on professional cycling, including In High Gear: The World of Professional Bicycle Racing, Lemond: The Incredible Comeback of an American Hero, and the acclaimed Breakaway: On the Road with the Tour de France. According to VeloPress, "He is the only American to have been awarded the medal of the Tour de France for distinguished service to the race."

In 1971, while working at the New York Times, Abt helped edit the Pentagon Papers.

Abt is retired and lives in a suburb of Paris. He is a graduate of Brown University.

Source: Samuel Abt, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Abt

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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