Researching Thomas Chimes
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The name Thomas means "a twin" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Thomas Chimes on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Thomas Chimes and the Chimes Family History
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Some Famous People called Thomas Chimes
Thomas Chimes
Thomas Chimes (1921–2009) was a painter and artist from Philadelphia. His work is in important public collections, including those of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, among others.
Source: Thomas Chimes, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Chimes
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