Records of Sarah Shaw on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Sarah Shaw 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 Sarah Shaw and the Shaw Genealogy

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

Look at Parish Records for Sarah Shaw at Find My Past.

Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Sarah Shaw using the FreeBMD database.

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

ukDid you know that there are currently 68459 people with the Shaw surname in the UK? Shaw is now ranked number 55 for popularity in the UK.

Shaw 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.

Explore the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Sarah Shaw.

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Shaw 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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ukDid you know that there are currently 197486 people with the Shaw surname in the USA? Shaw is ranked number 92 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Shaw Databases

Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Sarah Shaw. 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 Sarah Shaw

Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw

Sarah Blake Shaw (née Sturgis; August 31, 1815 – December 31, 1902) was an American abolitionist, women's rights supporter, anti-imperialist and philanthropist. She was the daughter of Bostonians Nathaniel Russell Sturgis (1779-1856) and Susannah Thomsen Parkman. She was the younger sister of merchant Russell Sturgis. She married Francis George Shaw on June 9, 1835. Shortly after their marriage, the Shaws became members of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem—a part of The Church of The New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian or New Church). Church records indicate they keep their membership active at a distance through the 1890s). Some scholars have written it was a "part of the 'evangelical' wing of the Unitarian Church;" however, they are not accurate.

In 1838, they joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and would later become founding members of the Unitarian Church in Staten Island, New York. The mother of Robert Gould Shaw and Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sarah Blake Shaw died at age 87 on December 31, 1902.

Of her personality and intellect, author William Rhinelander Stewart wrote, "Whatever things were best in art, literature, or music instantly appealed to her, and were loved from the time she first saw or heard them; and with the aid of a retentive memory, she was able even towards the close of a life prolonged to her eighty-seventh year to recite whole pages of Shakespeare and Milton, her favorite poets." And from the pen of Century Magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder, a poem —

Mother of heroes, she—of them who gaveTheir lives to lift the lowly, free the slave.Her, through long years, two master passions bound:Love of our free land; and of all sweet sound.'T was praising her to praise this land of grace;And when I think on music—lo, her face!

Source: Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Shaw

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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