Ancestry of
Ken Burns

Documentary Filmmaker

Robert Kyle Burns Jr.

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• • Father of Ken Burns — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Robert Kyle Burns 
  • Mother:
  • Emily Lucille Moore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Jun 1925 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hamilton County, Ohio 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Oct 2001 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lyla Smith Tupper
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 2 Apr 1940 
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  • Child:

  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Robert Kyle Burns Jr.

  • ¹ Federal Census, New York, Monroe County, 1930, Brighton, E.D. 28-201, Sheet 19B, Image 38 of 59.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Monroe County, 1940, Brighton, E.D. 28-5, Sheet 19B, Image 39 of 81.
  • ³ New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957, Queen Elizabeth, 31 AUG 1950 to 05 SEP 1950, Passenger Robert K. Burns.
  • ⁴ New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, S.S. Queen Mary, 11 NOV 1954 to 16 NOV 1954, Passenger Robert Kyle Burns Jr..
  • ⁵ Ohio, U.S., Birth Index, 1908-1998, Birth record for Robert K Burns.
  • ⁶ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Robert K. Burns Jr..
  • ⁷ Murray, James, Robert Kyle Burns 1896-1982: A Biographical Memoir, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press (1995), 8.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Ken Burns", (accessed 09/15/2014).
  • ⁹ Zurawik, David, "Waking the Dead", The Baltimore Sun, 23 SEP 2007.

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