Researching Wong Keat
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Records of Wong Keat on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Wong Keat in your family tree. With over 30 billion records and 100 million family trees to search, Ancestry is one of the key websites to visit to help you trace your family tree back in time. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. If you are lucky then you may find some previously undiscovered Keat ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Wong Keat and the Keat Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Keat 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 Keat family tree.
Study Parish Records for Wong Keat at Find My Past.
Check out for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Wong Keat using the FreeBMD database.
Explore Genealogy Bank for Wong Keat records.
Investigate MyHeritage for Wong Keat information.
Search the LDS Database for records about Wong Keat.
Research the Keat surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Keat Military records.
Keat Family Tree 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.
Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Wong Keat.
Study MyTrees for information on the Keat family and people looking to contact living Keat relations.
Investigate One Great Family for Keat records submitted by people who are already researching the Keat Family Tree.
Find Wong Keat from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Keat 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.
Research the Keat surname using Genealogy.com forums .
Miscellaneous Keat Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Wong Keat. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Wong Keat
Wong Shoon Keat
Wong Shoon Keat (born 1957) was a badminton player from Singapore. He won Singapore's first ever badminton gold at the 1983 SEA Games and to date, is Singapore’s only title winner in the men’s singles event. That year, he pulled off an upset over reigning world champion Icuk Sugiarto of Indonesia, and beat another Indonesian star, Hastomo Arbi in the final. His son, Derek Wong, was Singapore’s top male shuttler.
Wong Shoon Keat is also an accredited coach within the Singapore National Registry of Coaches (NROC). He is also the founder of Keat Youngster Academy, providing coaching services to young aspiring players in Singapore.
Source: Wong Shoon Keat, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Keat
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.
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