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How To Solve The Biggest Problems In Your Genealogy Research |
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Every genealogist will eventually encounter a particularly troublesome problem in their research. In genealogical circles, this is called the brick wall. It is when you reach a point in your research where you are out of available or known records to search, you’ve made all of the reasonable assumptions about your problem that you can with the information you have available, and you still can’t come up with even a theoretical
solution that would pass the genealogical proof standard test. Brick walls are the nemeses of genealogists. However, they can be as challenging and exciting as they are frustrating, because one thing we genealogists love is solving a good mystery. Most genealogists can’t stand to just sit there staring at the brick wall. They’re determined to bring it down one way or the other, even if it takes decades (and sometimes it does!).
If you
are facing a genealogy brick wall that seems un-scalable, here are some tips to get you around, over, or through it more quickly than you imagined possible... Read More
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This Week’s Free Genealogy Lookups |
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The Germans to America database lists age, gender, occupation, place of origin, and date of arrival for approximately 2 million German immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1850 and 1874.
Between 1847 and
1854, the arrival of more than 1 million Irish marked the first voluntary mass migration to the United States. This data set contains information on approximately 1.5 million individuals who arrived in Boston between 1846 and 1851 and in New York between 1846 and 1865.
Passenger lists are important
primary sources of arrival data for the vast majority of immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century. Indexed and easy to search, this database includes extensive arrival information on approximately 258,000 individuals who arrived in New Orleans between 1820 and 1850.
Passenger lists are important primary sources of arrival data for the vast majority of immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth
century.
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Ancestral Findings Podcast
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AF-011: Irish Naming Patterns: Discover Your Irish Origins from Names
in a Family Irish naming patterns were very precise for about two centuries. Here’s how you can use the patterns to find your Irish
ancestors.
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Listen to this weeks episode. |
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Latest Hard To Find Surnames |
Free Genealogical Lookups |
Here are some sources you should be using in your genealogical research. Some are free and some are fee-based. I’ll continue to make updates to this page so you may want to bookmark for future reference and convenience. |
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