Archive for 'Brick Walls'
Genealogy Source Guide
21 November 2008 - More on 2009 Tour
The purpose of this guide is to suggest what record sources to search to answer specific research questions. Some research goals might have a number of record types to answer the same question. For example if you were looking for someone’s maiden name you might consult Vital Records, [...]
Posted: November 21st, 2008 under Brick Walls, Research Steps.
Tags: Brick Walls, records, sources
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Overcoming “Brick Walls”
12 October 2008
The Needle In The Haystack
By Jim Onyschuk
One of my early ‘brick walls’ was finding out the particulars about my Grandfather’s voyage to Canada. All I had to start with was that he came to Canada in 1907. That information I had gathered from family sources (my aunts) [...]
Posted: October 12th, 2008 under Brick Walls.
Tags: Brick Walls, census, Dutka, naturalization papers, obstacles
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