Breaking Through the Brick Wall in Family History Research Every family historian encounters it eventually: the brick wall. One moment you’re confidently moving backward through generations, names and dates lining up neatly, and the next—everything stops. Records disappear. Names change. A person seems to materialise from nowhere and vanish just as mysteriously. It can beContinue reading “Let’s get that brick wall down”
Tag Archives: Genealogy
The Tragic Death of Dixie Downing
Newspaper archives can uncover many aspects of a person’s life, but they can also uncover stories that are a surprise and even national news. Norman Niddrie married into the family in the 1940s, but it was his earlier life that was splashed across the news. On the night of 28 January 1939, the small townContinue reading “The Tragic Death of Dixie Downing”
Unravelling truth from lies
August is Family History Month and it is a great time to get back into researching a branch of the family tree or taking a free course from the thousands available. I am at the end of the process of unravelling truths and non-truths left in a trail of documents by my 3x great-grandmother. SheContinue reading “Unravelling truth from lies”
Trace Genealogy 