Welcome to the Guinness Surname Tree


Together with your relatives, build up your Collection to discover the past and benefit future generations.
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The Guinness Collection

This Collection brings together everything about the Guinness family - the family tree, biographies of every relative, birth and death certificates as well as marriages and divorces, wills, publications, photographs etc. Everything is searchable, and much of it is available only to the family, for this and future generations.

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Everyone can contribute

This Collection is the culmination of the work of the curators of the Guinness Surname Tree, building on previous research by ancestors past and relatives present, as well as occasional contributions from interested visitors. Your contributions would also be most welcome.

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Everyone can discover

Discover more about your family, including distant relatives and ancestors that you did not even know existed who contributed and to a certain extent made you what you are today. Find out how you are related to each one of your ancestors

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Happy birthday, Lewis Victor Guinness.

Every month we celebrate the anniversary of some of our past relatives and ensure their memory is kept alive.
Today is the 106th anniversary of the birth of Lewis Victor Guinness, who was born in 1918 and died aged 68 in 1986.
Click on the link below to find out more about Lewis Victor Guinness

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