Brick Wall Solutions – Finding Helen Carnegie At Last!
This is the first installment of a theme based blog on brick walls in family history research and how to break them down. Initially I will be using my own examples but I also welcome input from others...
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions – John Carnegie, John Stanley, John Carnegie (again) –...
This is the second installment of a theme-based blog on brick walls in family history research and how to break them down. Initially I will be using my own examples but I also welcome input from others...
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions – John Francis Beeston
John Francis Beeston was born in Stockport, Cheshire in 1859, the son of Robert Beeston and Elizabeth Hudson, but I knew none of that when I started my research.read more
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions – The Aase Gunderson Story
Regular readers of this blog will have noted that yesterday (21 Dec 2009) there was a Brick Wall blog by Rosemary Kopittke, another Unlock The Past (UTP) team member. A decision was made to include...
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions – Who was Charlotte Kopittke?
When I started researching my family history seriously in the mid 1980s, I knew that what was recorded on birth, death and marriage certificates was correct.My grandfather Gustav Kopittke arrived in...
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions - The Search for Helen Carnegie Continues
In my Brick Walls blog on 28 November 2009, I first wrote about my search for my gg grandmother Helen Carnegie. We left the story with my believing that Helen was an alcoholic prostitute who had...
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions - Still Looking for James Henry Trevaskis (1839-?)
In previous Brick Wall Solutions blogs, I have written about my success stories. This time I am writing about a brick wall that has yet to crumble. I certainly hope that someone reading this blog has...
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions - the elusive Alfred Beeston
The question I’ve heard repeatedly from English friends since 1992 is “What have you done with our Alfred?”Whilst researching my own Beeston family who originated in Mugginton, Derbyshire then...
View ArticleBrick Wall Solutions - Searching for Smiths and Browns
by Mary GeigerWhen talking recently to a friend about searching on World Vital Records, I said that I never search for my main family lines of Smith and Brown as they always produce way too many...
View ArticleStill Tracking Helen Carnegie/Ferguson/Chick
My two previous blogs on my gg grandmother Helen Carnegie were on 28 November 2009 and 28 January 2010. When we left the story, I was waiting for an email from a Chick descendant who was going to give...
View ArticleSearch For Henry Spencer Ends
My partner Max's grandfather was a real mystery man. Unfortunately Max's father knew very little about his father so we only had vague family stories to follow.What we did know was that Max's...
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