Family history research

Tracing the descendants of Andrew Shiner

Shiner Lineage gathers the records, documents and relationships that connect the generations descended from Andrew Shiner. Everything here is published to help researchers, cousins and family members confirm their own place in the lineage.

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About this project

This site is a reference source rather than a discussion forum. Each page presents information that has been checked against primary records wherever possible, and notes where a conclusion is still provisional.

Research is ongoing. Names, dates and relationships are corrected as new evidence surfaces, so pages carry the date of their most recent revision.

If you hold family papers, photographs or oral history that could strengthen the record, we would like to hear from you.

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How the site is organised

Using the research

Cite the sources

Where a fact is drawn from a census, will or church register, the source is named on the person page so you can verify it independently.

Watch for provisional links

Relationships marked provisional rest on circumstantial evidence only and should not be copied into other trees without review.

Living individuals

Details of living people are withheld. Records for recent generations appear only in the private document section.