Researching Willi Schneider
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 329 people with the Schneider surname? In that year Schneider was ranked number 3250 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Willi Schneider on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Willi Schneider 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
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Willi Schneider and the Schneider Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Schneider 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 Schneider family tree.
Study Parish Records for Willi Schneider at Find My Past.
Study for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Willi Schneider using the FreeBMD database.
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Study the LDS Database for records about Willi Schneider.
Research the Schneider surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Schneider Military records.
Schneider 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.
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Schneider 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 100262 people with the Schneider surname in the USA? Schneider is ranked number 124 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Schneider Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Willi Schneider. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Willi Schneider
Willi Schneider
Willi Schneider (1903 – 1971), brother of Rudi Schneider, was an Austrian medium exposed as a fraud.
His physical mediumship was investigated by notable psychical researchers such as Harry Price, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Eric Dingwall, the Research Officer of the Society for Psychical Research. Willi, like his brother Rudi, was also caught cheating in the séance room. Warren Vinton, who investigated Rudi, also attended sittings with Willi in 1926. According to Vinton there was movement of some curtains and a sheet of paper which were performed by Willi's blowing.
Author Roy Stemman documented a picture of Willi in a séance with a "faked cloth phantom".
Source: Willi Schneider, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilli Schneider (skeleton racer)
Wilfried "Willi" Schneider (born 12 March 1963 in Mediaș, Transylvania) is a German skeleton racer who competed from 1992 to 2002. He won two medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 1998 and a bronze in 1999.
Schneider also finish ninth in the men's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
He won the men's overall Skeleton World Cup title in 1997-8.
After retiring from competition Schneider became a coach, leading the Canadian skeleton team to three medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin (a gold for Duff Gibson, a silver for Jeff Pain and a bronze for Melissa Hollingsworth), and coaching Jon Montgomery to victory in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In July 2012 Schneider agreed a two-year contract to coach the Russian skeleton team.
Source: Willi Schneider (skeleton racer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Schneider
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