Researching Louise Shivers
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 83 people with the Shivers surname? In that year Shivers was ranked number 3496 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Louise means "famous warrior" and is of German origin.
Records of Louise Shivers on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Louise Shivers and the Shivers Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Shivers 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 Shivers family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 182 people with the Shivers surname in the UK? Shivers is now ranked number 3871 for popularity in the UK. |
Shivers Family Tree Databases
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Shivers surname in the USA? Shivers is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Louise Shivers
Louise Shivers
Louise Shivers (August 15, 1929 – July 26, 2014) was an American author and writer-in-residence at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia.
Born in 1929 in Stantonsburg and raised in Wilson, North Carolina, Shivers received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and published two novels. Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail, originally published by Random House, Collins, London, and Editions Belfond in Paris, was named Best First Novel of the Year by USA Today in 1983 and was made into the feature film Summer Heat. The novel is available from John F. Blair Publishers and Google ebooks. A stage play, Faith's Affair, by Jayetta Slawson based on the novel made its debut in 2006 at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. A Whistling Woman garnered Shivers the Georgia Author of the Year award in 1993.
In January 2013, My Shining Hour : A novelist's memoir of World War II was published.
Shivers died of congestive heart failure in Evans, Georgia on July 26, 2014, aged 84.
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