Records of Wong Ling on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Wong Ling in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. 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. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Ling 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 Ling and the Ling Genealogy

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

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Study for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Wong Ling using the FreeBMD database.

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Research the Ling surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Ling Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 4143 people with the Ling surname in the UK? Ling is now ranked number 1404 for popularity in the UK.

Ling Genealogy 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.

Investigate the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Wong Ling.

Study MyTrees for information on the Ling family and people looking to contact living Ling relations.

Check out One Great Family for Ling records submitted by people who are already researching the Ling Family Tree.

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Ling 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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ukDid you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Ling surname in the USA? Ling is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Ling Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Wong Ling. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Wong Ling

Wong Shik Ling

Wong Shik-Ling (also known as S. L. Wong) (1908–1959) was a prominent scholar in Cantonese research. He is famous for his authoritative book, A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton, which is influential in Cantonese research.

He graduated from Lingnan University, Guangzhou and then taught and researched Cantonese in the university. In 1941 he published his work, "A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton". In 1949, he went to the University of London and studied methods for linguistic research in the School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1950, he returned to Hong Kong upon being hired as a lecturer in Cantonese at the University of Hong Kong for 1951. In the same year, he became the first dean in the newly founded Language School and went on to teach foreigners Cantonese for 9 years, until the end of his life. He wrote two textbooks on Cantonese for the university: Cantonese Conversation Grammar (1963) and Intermediate Cantonese Conversation (1967). Both were published by the Government Printer of the Hong Kong Government.

Source: Wong Shik Ling, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Ling

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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