If you are researching a “brick wall” ancestor, one of the best things you can do to find out more about them is to seek out other people online who are part of that ancestor’s family tree. These are your distant genetic cousins. You probably have never met them, or even heard of them, since they are so far removed from
your own direct line. Yet, you share a common ancestor somewhere in the past. If the paper trail on a brick wall ancestor has run cold, finding someone else who is descended from that person and talking to them may yield new information...
