Researching Stephen Kent
Investigate the background of Stephen Kent using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 12617 people with the Kent surname? In that year Kent was ranked number 322 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Stephen means "crown" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Stephen Kent on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Stephen Kent 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. If you are lucky then you may find some previously undiscovered Kent 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 Stephen Kent and the Kent Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kent 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 Kent family tree.
Explore Parish Records for Stephen Kent at Find My Past.
Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Stephen Kent using the FreeBMD database.
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Study the LDS Database for records about Stephen Kent.
Research the Kent surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Kent Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 16029 people with the Kent surname in the UK? Kent is now ranked number 347 for popularity in the UK. |
Kent 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.
Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Stephen Kent.
Study MyTrees for information on the Kent family and people looking to contact living Kent relations.
Explore One Great Family for Kent records submitted by people who are already researching the Kent Family Tree.
Find Stephen Kent from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Kent 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.
Research the Kent surname using Genealogy.com forums .
| Did you know that there are currently 51650 people with the Kent surname in the USA? Kent is ranked number 140 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Kent Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Stephen Kent. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Stephen Kent
Stephen Kent (chemist)
Stephen B. H. Kent (December 12, 1945 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago. While professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the early 1990s he pioneered modern ligation methods for the total chemical synthesis of proteins. He was the inventor of native chemical ligation together with his student Philip Dawson . His laboratory experimentally demonstrated the principle that chemical synthesis of a protein's polypeptide chain using mirror-image amino acids after folding results in a mirror-image protein molecule which, if an enzyme, will catalyze a chemical reaction with mirror-image stereospecificity. At the University of Chicago Kent and his junior colleagues pioneered the elucidation of protein structures by quasi-racemic & racemic crystallography.
Source: Stephen Kent (chemist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Kent
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.
Kaanta Kamath Kanady Kanawaty Kaniut Kanode Kant Kante Keent Keinadt Keinat Keinath Kemet Kemitt Kemmet Kemmett Kendeigh Kendi Kendy Kenedy Kennady Kenndey Kenneda Kennedey Kennedie Kennedy Kennet Kenneth Kennett Kente Kentie Kenty Kenwood Keynd Kimmet Kimmett Kimmitt Kind Kinde Kindt Kinmouth Kinnett Kint Kintigh Kuhnt Kunat Kunath Kundt Kynd Kynett Kynnd
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