Records of Ben Sheppard on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Ben Sheppard in your 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ben Sheppard and the Sheppard Genealogy

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

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ukDid you know that there are currently 14676 people with the Sheppard surname in the UK? Sheppard is now ranked number 393 for popularity in the UK.

Sheppard Family History Databases

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Sheppard 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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Miscellaneous Sheppard Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Ben Sheppard. 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 Ben Sheppard

Ben Sheppard

Benjamin Joseph Sheppard (23 June 1890 – 9 September 1931) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football with Melbourne and Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Sheppard started out as a footballer at Xavier College before being recruited by Melbourne. He played four senior games with Melbourne in the 1911 VFL season and one for Richmond in 1912.

In 1914 he appeared in two first-class cricket matches for Victoria during a tour of Tasmania. A wicket-keeper, his highest score was 30, which he made at Launceston.

Source: Ben Sheppard, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Sheppard

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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