Brick Wall Busters 2026 Need to jump-start your research? 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. Handout included. Presentation made by Michael John Neill. Michael has forty years of research experience in families throughout the United States. Presentation is based on his personal experience and consultations he has made to clients on research trips and via virtual consultations. Presentation and handout available now for immediate download–for $26. Download link sent immediately after purchase.
Don’t assume that just because the names are “close” that they have to be a match. I was looking for information on a William Bell who married a Martha Sargent in Iowa. Turns out there was another William Bell in the same part of Iowa who married a Lorinda Sargent. Totally two separate couples from two separate families. How many William Bells can marry a Sargent and live a few counties away from each other? Apparently two. Two distinct ones.Remember that sometimes there is a relationship and sometimes there is not. Always look for additional information to confirm that you really have the same couple and not another couple with the same or similar names. In this case, both marriages were in the 1870s and the 1880 census […]
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