in this video on how to get started. I can't wait to share
you to do is make sure that you don't jump to conclusions.
learn a lot by following on this series. The first thing
tackle. However, if you are a beginning genealogist, you can
series and if you haven't ever explored a research my shoulder
series then check out this playlist to keep you tied over
brickwall and at the top of that tree, it is a dead end and
to you. So you're at a dead end. You're at a brickwall you
south, a lot of records were destroyed because of the Civil
tips. Be sure to check out this video for the brickwall busting
with you this series of training on how to tackle
brickwalls and also share with you the application of those
come up short then maybe do us maybe you have a genealogy
After that, you follow some of the video tips that I suggest
accurate tree. Now you know you hit a brickwall according to
how far back can you reliably climb your family tree and have
do? Well if you have researched all of the potential relatives
and some of them because people didn't actually take good care
records were destroyed because of the courthouse burning down
name of Evelyn Townley she is in my brickwall then you know
maiden names. If you have resolved what is the maiden
quickly that brickwall busting is not for the faint of heart
you're not going to be able to get past it. As I tackled the
may never be able to solve it. Um so what else do you try to
in the same town where your ancestor lives and you still
learned that not very much past the fifteen hundreds. So
answers you need might be found in records that were never in
all of the publicly accessible records before you can say it's
That could be Catholic church records that are not open to
is going to be coming out within the next few years as
and it really isn't good for beginning genealogist to
compiled family trees and that's all you have available
brickwall known as John Townley, I discovered very
David and I really like this. When you're basically using
anybody with a tree in the nine hundreds A Probably not an
War. Do you want to investigate where record losses are found?
You'll know you have a genealogy brickwall when the
found what the maiden name is. Otherwise, you gotta keep
records you need were damaged or destroyed. Another of
a brickwall. You also want to make sure you have research
well as the 1951 US census record. So you have to explore
first you have to exhaust it all records online and some of
not just on ancestry and family search. There are a lot of
on Family Tree Maker written by David A Fryel. He had a number
of the records that they were custodians of. Now, in the
working at it. Sometimes, your brickwall is caused because the
existence. They were never created and we've talked about
in record collections that are not available to the public.
of ways to help us to what a genealogy brickwall is. So in
this video let's talk a little bit about theory and then I'll
places. Next, you need to explore all records that are
online the more records are coming online. So you really
that you're hitting hitting a difficult problem when you have
the public. It could be census records that have not been yet
the things I've discovered is the longer I've researched
made available to the public. Um this Canadian census record
available to the public. Now, sometimes your brickwalls are
John Townley and how I chipped away at it methodically. Well
at the show notes that will be in the description box as well.
have to exhaust all of the the records are online and they're
Kindred Path and Legacy Tree Geneologist, be sure you look
long time with little success. I like the definition from my
a brickwall is a problem that you have been working on for a
show you the the introduction to the brickwall series about
So, be sure to get very familiar with our blog and all
of the content over there and I really like this article over
brickwalls often refer to tough genealogy research problems. A
friend's Legacy Tree Genealogist. They say
let's make sure we define some terms a little bit. What are
Most of our show notes are going to be over on our blog.
yields no answers. Now, if you want to learn more about
parent dead end that after many hours of search searching still
genealogy brickwalls? On the website Kindred Past. They say
working on them? Now, if this is your first time here on
brickwalls are you working on and how long have you been
Family History Fanatics, let me say welcome. We have a free
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could find a link to that video in the description. So,
and my husband solved it right here in this video and you
genealogy brickwalls are things that have most genealogist
pick up your copy of our free brickwall busting guide. So
brickwalls and I would really like to know what genealogy
faint of heart. So today, we're going to talk about genealogy
recently run into someone who said, hey, I've been working on
banging their heads against the wall and they're not for the that's nothing. My grandmother was a brickwall for 92 years
Brickwalls in genealogy research are the worst. I've
a genealogy brickwall for two years and I'm like, sweetie,
until the next release.