Records of Tom Vandergriff on Ancestry

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DNA

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Tom Vandergriff and the Vandergriff Genealogy

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

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Vandergriff Family Tree Databases

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Some Famous People called Tom Vandergriff

Tom Vandergriff

Tommy Joe Vandergriff (January 29, 1926 – December 30, 2010) was a politician from Texas. He served as Mayor of Arlington from 1951 to 1977, as a U.S. Representative from from 1983 to 1985, and as County Judge of Tarrant County from 1991 to 2007. For the greater part of his life, Vandergriff was a Democrat, but he became a Republican around 1990.

As Mayor, he was instrumental in several projects, including a new General Motors assembly plant, moving a Major League Baseball franchise to Arlington, and the opening of Six Flags over Texas.

Source: Tom Vandergriff, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Vandergriff

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