Records of Shanta Thake on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Shanta Thake 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 Thake 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 Shanta Thake and the Thake Genealogy

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

Study Parish Records for Shanta Thake at Find My Past.

Look at for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Shanta Thake using the FreeBMD database.

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Thake Family History Databases

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Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Shanta Thake.

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

Look at One Great Family for Thake records submitted by people who are already researching the Thake Family Tree.

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Thake 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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Miscellaneous Thake Databases

Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Shanta Thake. 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 Shanta Thake

Shanta Thake

Shanta Thake is the Associate Artistic Director/ Director of Artistic Programs at The Public Theater. In this capacity, Thake oversees the growth and development of Public Works, Mobile Unit, Under the Radar, Joe’s Pub, The Shakespeare Initiative and Public Forum. Previously, she spent 10 years as the Director of Joe’s Pub at The Public, The Public Theater’s cabaret space named after Theater founder Joseph Papp. Under Ms. Thake’s direction, Joe’s Pub has produced events at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park and in collaboration with Make Music New York, Under The Radar and DanceNOW, among other organizations.

In 2011, Ms. Thake established New York Voices, a commission program that provides musicians with tools to develop original theater works. Recipients include Ethan Lipton, whose 2011 New York Voices debut No Place To Go went on to win an Obie Award, (Off-Broadway Theater Award). Other commissioned artists include Toshi Reagon, Bridget Everett, Allen Toussaint and more.

Ms. Thake also serves as one of three producers of globalFEST, a world music festival and non-profit organization. The organization has curated stages at Webster Hall, Bonnaroo, SXSW and Festival d’Ile de France and administers a touring fund to world music artists touring new markets in North America.

Ms. Thake acted as board chair for the theater company Waterwell, was the co-creator of Weimar New York and is an active member of the Middle Collegiate Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir. Ms. Thake has been the recipient of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Emerging Leader award as well as Theater Communications Group’s Leaders of Color grant. She received a BA in Theater as well as a degree in Management from Indiana University and currently lives in Brooklyn.

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