A Practical Research Strategy for Family Historians Every family historian eventually encounters a genealogy “brick wall.” It might be: These roadblocks can feel frustrating, especially after hours of searching records online with little progress. But experienced genealogists know something important: Brick walls are often solved not by finding one magical record — but by organizingContinue reading “Breaking Through Brick Walls”
Category Archives: 22 Steps in Researching Your Family Tree
Researching an Ancestor Who Had No Surname
How do you identify an ancestor when the record gives only one name? These 10 strategies show how location, age, maternal kinship, associates, estates and successive returns can reconstruct enslaved families through a network of evidence.
Nearly 4 Million Enslavement Records Are Now Searchable
Nearly four million records from 20 former British colonies are now searchable online. Learn how to trace one-name ancestors, follow mothers and children across returns, identify estates, and continue the search into post-emancipation records.