Surname Definition: See Family Crest below.

Origins: An ancient Anglo-Saxon name first appearing in Hertfordshire, England.

Alternate Spellings: PRIEST, PREOST, PREST, PREIST, PRESTT, PRESS, and others also possibly SAINTPRIEST.

Surnames sharing the Rootsweb Soundex Code: PRECHTEL, PRECIADO, PRESCOTT, PRESTON, PRICKETT, PRIEST, PRIESTLEY, PROCTER, PROCTOR, PURGET.

Surnames sharing the GenesReunited NameX Code: PRESTON, PRIESTLEY, PRIEST, PRESS, PREST, PRIESTMAN, PRESTIDGE, PRIESTLY, PRESTAGE, PRIESTNALL, PRESTNEY.

Other Resources

• PRIEST Family Crest and Name History
• PRIEST Family Genealogy Forum
• Over 53,000 records for PRIEST at RootsWeb's World Connect Project
• Personal websites at RootsWeb - PRIEST
• Rootsweb Messageboards PRIEST - see also PRIESTAP, PRIESTER, PRIESTLEY, PRIESTLY, PRIESTNALL, PRIESTNER
• Ancestry.co.uk Global Search Results PRIEST
• Over 4,700 USA Death Records for people with surname PRIEST
• Over 1,300 websites at TribalPages containing people with surname PRIEST
• Over 6,000 websites at GeneaNet containing people with surname PRIEST
• Over 10,800 search results for PRIEST at GenCircles
• GenesReunited $
• FamilySearch - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world
• Answers.com – The world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia
• Search Wikipedia – the free encyclopaedia
• DeadFred – Genealogy photo archive
• AncientFaces – Family Treasures
• Linkpendium
• Family Tree DNA
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• RootsChat – Genealogy, Family History, Local History, Messaging Forum and more
• CertificateSharing – free sharing of Birth, Baptism, Marriage and Death Certificates in English language only
• Access Genealogy’s Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania search engine
• History of Australia by the Eureka Council
• The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• National Archives of Australia
• State Records Office, New South Wales, Australia
• Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia
• Archives of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
• Auckland City Libraries – family history resources, New Zealand
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
• Search Family Home Pages at FamilyTreeMaker
• Search Encyclopaedia Titanica – Titanic Passenger and Crew Research
• SurnameNavigator.org - Genealogy Search Engine
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• FamilyHistory.com
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• Olive Tree Genealogy - Search free genealogy databases for your ancestors
• GenealogyTrails.com - United States of America - Finding ancestors wherever their trails led
• Worldwide Cemetery Records Online - Internment.net
• Australian Obituaries

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