Records of Scatman Crothers on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Scatman Crothers 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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DNA

Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Crothers ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Scatman Crothers and the Crothers Genealogy

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

Look at Parish Records for Scatman Crothers at Find My Past.

Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Scatman Crothers using the FreeBMD database.

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Investigate the LDS Database for records about Scatman Crothers.

Research the Crothers surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Crothers Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 1012 people with the Crothers surname in the UK? Crothers is now ranked number 3092 for popularity in the UK.

Crothers 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.

Investigate the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Scatman Crothers.

Study MyTrees for information on the Crothers family and people looking to contact living Crothers relations.

Check out One Great Family for Crothers records submitted by people who are already researching the Crothers Family Tree.

Find Scatman Crothers from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Crothers 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 3038 people with the Crothers surname in the USA? Crothers is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Crothers Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Scatman Crothers. 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 Scatman Crothers

Scatman Crothers

Benjamin Sherman Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986), known professionally as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). He was also a prolific voice-over actor who provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters animated TV series, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie (1986), the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the animated film The Aristocats (1970). Source: Scatman Crothers, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Crothers

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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