This hour-long presentation is geared towards advanced beginning or intermediate genealogists. Our focus will be on problems in the United States between roughly 1700 and 1900. Brick wall ideas will be pulled from consultations with clients and personal research experience. Approaches will be practical and down-to-earth. Presentation approach will be through a series of examples from a variety of time periods, locations, and social classes. Handout included. Presentation made by Michael John Neill.Presentation (video/audio) and handout will be released for viewing on 21 April 2026. Pre-order price is $22–order today. Price after 21 April 2026 will be $30.
Military pension affidavits are full of statements discussing events that happened decades or even half a century before the applicant filed their claim. Sometimes the biggest value in those statements is not what is actually stated, it’s the length of the implied relationship. It’s the 1880s and the affiant indicated he was at the funeral of the widow’s first husband thirty-five years earlier. They’ve known each other at least thirty-five years, and given the event they were at, that relationship likely extends back even further than that. And the widow has to have remembered that the affiant was at the funeral–that’s sometimes something in itself. The connection between the affiant and the widow may have simply been the result of geographic proximity thirty-five years ago–or it could have […]
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