Posts in April 3, 2009

Is there something you think you know but for which you have no real proof other than you have always believed it? While it doesn’t have direct genealogical bearing, I have been reading “Pillars of the Republic” by Carl F. Kaestle. One thing I learned while reading the book is that there were many schools in the 1820s-1840s that enrolled children as young as 4. This trend changed in the mid-eighteenth century. I just always assumed that there was no schooling at all for children that young until the 20th century. I never read that anywhere, I just assumed it. Is there some “fact” in your genealogy research that you never read, never heard, but just assumed? And is it causing that brick wall in your research? ———————————— […]