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The Best Way to Get Rid of a Brick Wall Plus A Poll

6/28/2013

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If you are like me, you spend a lot of time researching your ancestors. Also if you are like me - you read a lot of blogs and books and periodicals about genealogy - all with the intention of finding any little tidbit that might further your own research.

In that reading there is often the use of the term "break down the brick wall," or "I have come up against a brick wall," or "I can't go further because I have hit a brick wall."

FULL DISCLOSURE - I hate the term "brick wall." In my view there is only one thing to do when stymied:

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So do what I do:

  • Revisit or create a more detailed and thought through research plan
  • Revisit your own conclusions
  • Make sure to incorporate "cluster" or FAN research into your plans
  • Research more

...and when you are done with all the above and are still stuck - research even more!

There has been tons written about this subject and you can certainly find out more methods - but it is all about researching more. 

MOST OF ALL

Don't focus on what I consider to be a negative term to take away your positive drive to find what you want to find.

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J. Houston Ford
6/28/2013 07:11:27 pm

After decades of research by family members with no success, in determining the origins of William and "Liddy" Ford of Hanover & Goochland Counties of circa early 1700's Virginia, I find the term brick wall lamentably apt as family researchers have either passed on or lost hope. Not knowing whom to turn or have confidence in, leaves the supposed brick wall firmly ensconced and seamingly impenetrable, unfortunately and perhaps ineluctably. Sadly, it seems unlikely a research prodigy on a white horse will appear and offer the importuned answers for reasonable remuneration, rather than the brick wall being infiltrated. Checkbook and pen in hand hoping for the former! Ever hopeful and unyielding, JHoustonFord@comcast.net

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