Records of William Macbrien on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of William Macbrien 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 William Macbrien and the Macbrien Family Tree

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

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Macbrien Family History Databases

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Macbrien Forums

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Miscellaneous Macbrien Databases

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Some Famous People called William Macbrien

William Ross MacBrien

Air Marshal William Ross MacBrien, OBE, CD, RCAF (1913–1986), commonly known as Bill MacBrien or Iron Bill, was a senior Royal Canadian Air Force officer during World War II and a senior commander in the 1950s and 60s.

MacBrien was born in 1913 in the United Kingdom. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1935 and during World War II he commanded a Canadian fighter sector in continental Europe. In the early 1950s, he was a senior staff officer at the Headquarters of Canada's Air Defence Command in Saint-Hubert, Quebec before being appointed to further staff duties at No. 4 ATAF at Lansberg in Germany.

In September 1958 MacBrien took over as Air Officer Commanding Air Defence Command. Deputy commander in chief at the SHAPE HQ in Belgium in 1967. From August 1967 to January 1969 MacBrien was the Deputy Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

MacBrien died in 1986. His body was buried in the Beechwood National Military Cemetery in Ottawa.

Source: William Ross MacBrien, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Macbrien

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