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…
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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: 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: Was Hubby’s Memory Correct? How I Did the Research
Marian Wood, blog author from the website Climbing My Family Tree, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog details how she investigated her husband’s memories of his youth. The records, on the surface, didn’t seem to match. But by digging deeper, she discovered that his memories of where…
How I Solved It: A Circus Family, Part 2
Sarah Dery, blog author and Research Services Coordinator at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog continues the story of Sarah’s first blog where she discovered a new resource from Quebec where she managed to find parents, grandparents and other…
How I Solved It: Annie Catherine Downing: Found Mutilated on the Line
Suzi Brent, blog author of Family Tree Mystery, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. Suzi tells the story of how her mother had started the research on Annie. She picked it up to find out what was behind her early death. Newspapers and the inquest being completely…
How I Solved It: Treasures from the Goodwill: From Pearl to Aunt Abbie and Uncle Edd
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 received personal items that included photographs in a recent donation. These items were given to the local genealogy society…
How I Solved It: Email and Elusive Ancestors
Wendy Mathias, blog author at Jollett Etc., has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog is a good story about figuring out who a little-known person on the family tree actually was. Interest had flagged but then was raised again by an email from a person who…
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