Records of Harry Shields on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Harry Shields 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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DNA

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Harry Shields and the Shields Genealogy

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

Look at Parish Records for Harry Shields at Find My Past.

Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Harry Shields using the FreeBMD database.

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Study MyHeritage for Harry Shields information.

Check out the LDS Database for records about Harry Shields.

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

ukDid you know that there are currently 9771 people with the Shields surname in the UK? Shields is now ranked number 592 for popularity in the UK.

Shields Family History Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Look at the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Harry Shields.

Study MyTrees for information on the Shields family and people looking to contact living Shields relations.

Check out One Great Family for Shields records submitted by people who are already researching the Shields Family Tree.

Find Harry Shields from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Shields 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.

Research the Shields surname using Genealogy.com forums .

ukDid you know that there are currently 60765 people with the Shields surname in the USA? Shields is ranked number 137 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Shields Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Harry Shields. 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 Harry Shields

Harry Shields

Harry Shields (June 30, 1899 – January 19, 1971) was an early jazz clarinetist.

Harry Shields was born in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, the younger brother of noted clarinetist Larry Shields. Harry spent almost his whole career in New Orleans. He played with the bands of Norman Brownlee, Sharkey Bonano, Tom Brown, Johnny Wiggs, and others. Many fellow musicians regarded Harry as superior to his more famous brother, Larry. Johnny Wiggs commented that Harry Shields was the only clarinetist he'd heard who could always play the right note without fail.

Source: Harry Shields, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Shields

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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