Michael Dyer, blog author from Family Sleuther, has shared this blog with us as part of our “How I Solved It” Series. Michael finds some red flags for a father and daughter that no one had noticed until a book was being written about the family and they were double checking information. Further investigation…
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How I Solved It: Did Your Ancestor Leave You A Clue at the Cemetery?
Patricia Greber, blog author from the website My Genealogy Life, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. An in-person visit to a cemetery reveals a set of three headstones, one of which doesn’t fit with the other surnames. A message on the Rootsweb email list and a response from…
How I Solved It: A Detested Ancestor – Philemon Benjamin Hawkins
Renate Sanders, blog author of Into the Light, has contributed the following post as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series.” Here, she shares her experience digging for a nugget of truth in family lore. She found the answer in estate records and discovered how a shared name can lead to a century of…
How I Solved It: Why John and Mary Boyd (Mitchell) Are Not the Parents of Robert Mitchell (1714-1799)
Schalene Dagutis, blog author of Tangled Roots and Trees, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This great blog is about how Schalene didn’t believe various trees that stated a specific set of parents to Robert. Online research and the contents of the will proved her thoughts.
How I Solved It: My Tommy’s War: An Eastender in the Lancers
Caroline James, blog author at The National Archives UK, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog is only the first part of the story about one man that served in WWI. Caroline shares with us how she discovered who he was and where he served. This…
How I Solved It: Death Investigation: Was it a Railroad Accident?
Vanessa Wieland, blog author, online community editor and dean of Family Tree University, part of the Family Tree Magazine family, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This great blog is about how Vanessa tries to confirm the family story of being crushed to death between rail cars and finds…
How I Solved It: The Body (okay Ancestor) in the Library….
Alex Daw, blog author of Family Tree Frog, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. Alex revisits a previous blog on the family that included information and a warning to be careful of certain indexes. So she avoided those indexes at first and went for a newspaper. That set off her…
How I Solved It: Our Alabama and Georgia Ancestors: Honoring the Legacy of Mitchell Heath and Anna Lue Barrow
Dante Eubanks, blog author of Our Alabama and Georgia Ancestors has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog is a summary of 20 years of research and collaboration that the Dante has completed on the various branches of the Heath family. He has done extensive work on the…
How I Solved It: Field Notes: I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Anne Faulkner, blog author from the website Ancestor Archaeology, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog explains how Anne was wanting to learn more about her grandmother and how she took a variety of research methods with newspapers and church records to discover the answers to…
How I Solved It: Rent To Own: A Land And Tax Record Quandary
Michael Dyer, blog author from Family Sleuther, has shared this blog with us as part of our “How I Solved It” Series. Michael’s research uncovers some land records finally that help him establish where ancestors were located between 1800 & 1810. The information solves one problem for him but raises some other issues. He goes…
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