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How I Solved It: Solving a Family History Mystery with an Unexpected Clue

DiAnn Iamarino Ohama, blog author from the website Family Tree Advice, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”.  This blog explains how she found information by looking beyond known relatives and looking at their friends and neighbors for information on her family.        

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How I Solved It: Who was Lucy, Wife of Josiah Lakin, Groton, Massachusetts?

Linda Stufflebean, blog author from the website Empty Branch Family Tree has shared this blog with us as part of our “How I Solved It” Series. This blog explains how the author solved the puzzle of an ancestor named Lucy of the Lakin family during Colonial Times. The challenge presents itself as the Lakins have multiple marriages within other…

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How I Solved It: How a 200-Year-Old Family Feud Solved a Brick Wall Problem

Legacy Tree Genealogists has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series” which tells the story about how they were hired for a family research project that led to the discovery of a very interesting court case that solved a tricky brick wall about the parentage of William T. Boykin.

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How I Solved It: Thomas and Alice Hutchins Drake: A Study of Mistaken Assumptions

Alice Clark, blog author and president of the South Bend Area Genealogical Society, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”.  This blog tells the story of the local Goodwill that received personal items which included photographs in a recent donation. These items were given to the local genealogy…

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How I Solved It: Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor in Norway

Kitty Cooper, author of Kitty Cooper’s Blog, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”.  This blog provided a very detailed look at how she found an immigrant ancestor in records and databases in the US and Norway. She manages to find multiple records and ends with the proof of…

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How I Solved It: DNA Happy Dance & A New-To-Me Resource

Amberly Beck, blog author from the website Genealogy Girl, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog explained how DNA opened a door to find out information about a family that was otherwise unknown until she compared family trees with DNA matches and actual records.

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How I Solved It: 1 Hospital + 2 Record Sets = Brick Wall Breakthrough

Linda Stufflebean, blog author from the website Empty Branch Family Tree has shared this blog with us as part of our “How I Solved It” Series. This blog explains how the author traced the birth records of an ancestor that was born in a hospital for single mothers in Denmark and the research and travel involved…

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How I Solved It: My Mystery Photo Identified – Genealogy Blog Picnic Challenge

Susan Donaldson, blog author from the website, Family History Fun, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog discusses how she identified family members during a genealogy potluck where people would get together to work on and discuss their family mysteries.

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How I Solved It: Family Mystery Solved! Two Lost Boys Found

DiAnn Iamarino Ohama, blog author from the website Family Tree Advice, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog solves the mystery through wondering what happened to her Italian family that traveled back and forth between the US and Italy and apparently left behind two children born in the US….

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How I Solved It: A Family Court Dispute Found in Google Books

Patricia Greber, blog author from the website My Genealogy Life, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog explains how she conducted a Google Book search which brings up snippets of information on an ancestor. The snippets provide enough information to hire a researcher to look at the original…

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