Lara Diamond, blog author from the website Lara’s Jewnealogy, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog teaches us that it might be a good idea to research the relatives of your ancestors instead of your direct ancestors. Those relatives may be able to uncover stories and…
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How I Solved It: Research Update: The “Rundle” – “Brice” Mystery Solved
Mary Pitkin, blog author from the website My Genealogy Research, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog describes how she finally figured out why the name Brice kept showing up as a middle name through family generations. Where did it originate? A relative in Australia had the missing…
How I Solved It: Success! Finding Incorrectly Transcribed Names on Census Records
Dana Leeds, blog author from the website The Enthusiastic Genealogist, shares with us how she solved a family mystery when the incorrect name was transcribed in census records.
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.
How I Solved It: Jane P Thompson Burt Billings: An Estimable Lady of Oberlin Tales From The Cave – My Adventures In Genealogy
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 located information on her 3rd great-grandparents after reaching out to an Ohio genealogy Facebook group with minimal information except for an occupation and the name “Mr. Burt”. Asking for a…
How I Solved It: A Marriage Record, but no Father, for Hannah (Smith) Sawtell (1768-1827)
Randy Seaver, blog author from the website Genea-Musings.com, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog displays how Randy researches and pays attention to little details in records he’s found throughout New England to help determine the parents of Hannah Smith. He also outlines how it’s not an…
How I Solved It: Those Eureka! Moments
Janine Adams, blog author from the website Organize Your Family History, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. Her blog discusses how she followed a set of ancestors to prove that an ancestor who was the child of a Civil War pensioner was the same man who remarried following…
How I Solved It: Finding Lurancy
Chris Child, blog author and longtime member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. Thanks to Reclaim the Records, Chris was able to finally track down the death certificate of an ancestor. Using multiple resources including Ancestry and Family Search, plus emailing…
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