Category: Brick Walls

We have all had the experience of looking for our ancestor and being unable to find them in the record we are searching. We know they were there at the time, so why aren’t they listed? They say the best way to hide something is in plain sight. Many times our ancestor is hiding in plain sight and we just have to discover their hiding place. The first thing to do is to verify our records and make sure they should be in this place at this particular time. Nearly…

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At one time or another, we all find ourselves up against a brick wall in our genealogical research. We want the answer to our questions, but where do we turn? It may seem that we have exhausted all of our options in finding the answers. At this point in time, we have to think outside the box for the answers. Never give up!! This is the main axiom of our thinking in the genealogy world. The answer may not be where we think it should be, but it is out…

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In everyone’s genealogical research, there are bits and pieces of information missing. It is like working a jigsaw puzzle, you get almost finished and find that a couple of pieces are missing. This throws the whole process off center and you want to quit. If you do finish the puzzle, and you look back on it, all you see are the holes left by the missing pieces. In genealogical research, there are ways to find those missing pieces. Unlike the puzzle when you know the dog ate those two pieces,…

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