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.
Family history research
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.
Browse the documented generations, recent additions and the research notes behind each branch.
Open the tree →Every surname recorded in the tree, with the number of individuals attached to each.
View surnames →Burial locations identified in the research, grouped by county and state.
View cemeteries →Downloadable PDFs: transcriptions, wills, deeds and compiled research reports.
View documents →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.
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.
Relationships marked provisional rest on circumstantial evidence only and should not be copied into other trees without review.
Details of living people are withheld. Records for recent generations appear only in the private document section.