1921 England and Wales Census records are now available!

On 6 January 2022 the 1921 England and Wales Census records were made available online via the FindMyPast website. The records have been indexed and are searchable via the usual methods. These records are only viewable on a pay-per-view basis and are not included in any of FindMyPast's existing subscriptions with the exception of the 12 month premium subscription.

Sunshine records on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Sunshine family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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DNA

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Sunshine Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sunshine 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Sunshine family tree.

Search Sunshine Parish Records at Find My Past.

Study the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Sunshine family name using the FreeBMD database.

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Search the LDS Database for records of the Sunshine family.

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

Sunshine Family Tree Databases

Search WikiTree for user contributed Sunshine family records. Collaboration is encouraged so that accuracy of Sunshine data can be verified or corrected by other users.

Search MyTrees for information on the Sunshine family and people looking to contact living Sunshine relations.

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Miscellaneous Sunshine Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on the Sunshine family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the Sunshine surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.

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