Records of Tom Shale on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Tom Shale 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 Tom Shale and the Shale Family Tree

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

Look at Parish Records for Tom Shale at Find My Past.

Search for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Tom Shale using the FreeBMD database.

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Shale 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.

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Shale 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 Shale Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Tom Shale. 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 Tom Shale

Tom Shale

Thomas Augustine Shale (10 September 1864 in Bilston, Staffordshire – 24 June 1953 in Brighton, Sussex) was a British comic actor who appeared in vaudeville, theatre, pantomime and films during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Making his first professional appearance in 1885, he was a regular in pantomime, playing 'Buttons' in Cinderella and King Stoneybrokish in Jack and the Beanstalk with George Robey and Barry Lupino. He regularly toured in productions in Great Britain and the United States.

His films included The Night Porter (1930), Never Trouble Trouble (1931) and The Good Companions (1933).

His brother Edward Shale (1861-1926) was a London-based stage manager for over 20 years.

Source: Tom Shale, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Shale

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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