Photo Courtesy of @anniespratt In Part 1 of "Finding a Way Through" I provided a list of tips to break through Brick Walls in your Family Tree. Let me be honest with you: I am a professional genealogist, and yet, with all of the tools at my fingertips, I still have difficult spots in my own family tree! This month, I am going to spend some time Finding a Way Through the Brick Wall in my Griffin family line. I'm going to show you how I use my own advice and then reveal the outcome in Part 3 of this series. Finding Family in Northern Alabama When I became interested in genealogy, my mom was ready with generations of stories and photos from her side of the family. We were very quickly able to confirm eight generations of family history with solid documents and DNA evidence! My dad’s side of the family was much more challenging. There had been some hard feelings in the past and there were relationships and events that people were still hesitant to talk about, ev...
Genealogy Tips and Tricks for Memory Keepers, South of the Mason-Dixon Line and Beyond