Hi people, what a wonderful and amazing website/forum you have here, it is truly amazing all of the good information to be had whilst looking for relatives from the past.
I have really really come up against a brick wall, my ancestor who is my grandfather on my fathers side has a very unusual name but I am struggling a bit finding things out about him.
I did a search on ancestry.com and the only info to be had was a will and probate, that actually gave me my grandfathers date of death, so I then went onto the Groni site and found his death certificate which I have now ordered the full one, what I am stuck with is I cannot find anythig else out about my family.
The info I do have is my grandfather was a Samuel Shields Wallace and he was 44 when he died on the 20th August 1958 so he was born in 1914, I remember my father telling me about where he lived as a boy and his grandfather died before he was born, my father was born in 1936 his father married in 1935 the family lived in Rosebud cottages (Abercorn drive ) as it is now known in Ballyclare county Antrim, my father did manage to find out he was buried in the local cemetery but couldn't find the grave when he went there.
So I am wondering what is the next step and best way to find out anything else about Samuel shields or his Father Robert?
Thank you so much if you are still reading this is the first steps in finding my family ancestry and I suppose this is the easy part. At least he wasn't called John Smith.
I await your replies and have a lovely day.
Best wishes Gary.
