Brick Wall Ahead—Road Closed?
Do you have an ancestor who simply cannot be found? You think you’ve looked everywhere, examining census records until your eyes are sore, and still that one particular person remains hidden.
“The Cousins,” Louise, Mary and Peter Filippo, 1917, Wallingford, Connecticut
(source: QHGS Blogger’s family files)
(source: QHGS Blogger’s family files)
Sometimes we genealogists feel like giving up, but there are research strategies that will help us find our “invisible” relatives. Several websites which discuss these procedures are listed below.
Visit the New York Public Library online at http://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/08/03/genealogy-research-tips to learn alternate ways of looking at your research problems.
At https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Solving_Tough_Research_Problems%E2%80%94Overcoming_Brick_Walls the FamilySearch WIKI will help you discover techniques to push your inquiries into new, “never-thought-of-that-before,” areas.
On her world-famous “Cyndi’s List” website, Cyndi Ingle has a list of articles that tell us what other genealogists have done to solve their problems: http://www.cyndislist.com/brickwall/articles/.
And Jeanne Lund has a page of “brick wall buster” options at her website, “GenealogyPro”
http://genealogypro.com/articles/brick-wall-research.html.
RESEARCH TIP: Brick walls are inevitable, but they needn’t put a stop to your research. You can go around, under, and over many brick walls by setting your direct ancestor aside to research other members of the family—what genealogists call collateral lines—because brothers’ and sisters’ records may provide the information you are looking for.
Visit the New York Public Library online at http://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/08/03/genealogy-research-tips to learn alternate ways of looking at your research problems.
At https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Solving_Tough_Research_Problems%E2%80%94Overcoming_Brick_Walls the FamilySearch WIKI will help you discover techniques to push your inquiries into new, “never-thought-of-that-before,” areas.
On her world-famous “Cyndi’s List” website, Cyndi Ingle has a list of articles that tell us what other genealogists have done to solve their problems: http://www.cyndislist.com/brickwall/articles/.
And Jeanne Lund has a page of “brick wall buster” options at her website, “GenealogyPro”
http://genealogypro.com/articles/brick-wall-research.html.
RESEARCH TIP: Brick walls are inevitable, but they needn’t put a stop to your research. You can go around, under, and over many brick walls by setting your direct ancestor aside to research other members of the family—what genealogists call collateral lines—because brothers’ and sisters’ records may provide the information you are looking for.
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