Researching William Kingsford
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 414 people with the Kingsford surname? In that year Kingsford was ranked number 3165 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Kingsford on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Kingsford and the Kingsford Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kingsford 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 Kingsford family tree.
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Study for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of William Kingsford using the FreeBMD database.
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| Did you know that there are currently 310 people with the Kingsford surname in the UK? Kingsford is now ranked number 3750 for popularity in the UK. |
Kingsford Family History Databases
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Kingsford Forums
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Miscellaneous Kingsford Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on William Kingsford. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called William Kingsford
William Kingsford
William Kingsford (23 December 1819 – 29 September 1898) was an English-born Canadian historian. Born in London, England, served in the army, and went to Canada, where he was engaged in surveying work. He was a self-taught historian, and one of the first to use the archives being gathered in Ottawa. He is best known for his History of Canada in 10 volumes (1887–1898), which was widely read by the upper middle class, as well as Anglophone teachers, despite its poor organisation and pedestrian writing style. Kingsford believed that the Conquest of New France guaranteed victory for British constitutional liberty and that it ensured material progress. He assumed the assimilation of French Canadians into a superior British culture was inevitable and desirable, for he envisioned Canada as one nation with one anglophone population.
Source: William Kingsford, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Kingsford
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.
Kamichoff Kingaby Kingsberry Kingsborough Kingsbury Kinsbach Kinship Koenigsfeld Koncaba Konigsbauer
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