Researching Sean Smith
Delve into the history of Sean Smith using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 422845 people with the Smith surname? In that year Smith was ranked number 1 for popularity in the UK.
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Records of Sean Smith on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Sean Smith 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
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Sean Smith and the Smith Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sean Smith 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 Sean Smith family tree.
Study the huge Ancestry records Database for Births, Marriages and Deaths of Sean Smith.
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Did you know that there are currently 514897 people with the Smith surname in the UK? Smith is now ranked number 1 for popularity in the UK.
Smith Genealogy Databases
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Smith 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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Did you know that there are currently 3056476 people with the Smith surname in the USA? Smith is ranked number 1 for popularity in the USA.
Miscellaneous Smith Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Sean Smith. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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View the distribution of the Smith surname in Britain using the
public profiler Names database. The public profiler Names database contains distributions for
the Smith surname in both 1881 and 1998. It also contains data on the ethnicity breakdown of the Smith surname.
Some Famous People called Sean Smith
| Sean Smith | Wiki Detail | Sean Smith (born May 29, 1967, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former American football player in the National Football League. |
| Sean Smith | Wiki Detail | Sean Smith (born July 14, 1987 in) is an American football cornerback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. |
| Sean Smith | Wiki Detail | Sean Smith (Honolulu, 18 March 1961) is an American film director and screenwriter. |
Other names that sound a bit like Smith
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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