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Brick Walls
In genealogy, "brick walls" are situations where you just can't figure out how to progress with your research. Maybe there's a mother whose maiden name you can't figure out, or a child whose parents you just can't find.
On this page, we are collecting your "brick wall" people, so that we can try to help each other out, with research ideas, suggestions, or even information. WeRelate is built around collaboration, and this is one way to ask the WeRelate community for help. Often, what is difficult for one researcher because of language, location, or area of interest, may be much simpler for someone else. The goal of this page is to help to make those connections.
In addition to possibly listing your page under the "Feature Me" list, you may want to add a brick wall template to your person or family's page. Adding this template will automatically add that page to the Brickwall category page:
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This page represents a "brick wall" -- i.e., researchers are "stuck" in their efforts to find more information. Can you help? Use the Talk page for discussion of this particular brick wall. |
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Selecting a submission to feature
Every week (or so) we will feature one "brick wall", and work together to break through it. If you would like to add someone as a brick wall, include their name at the bottom of the "Please Feature my Brick Wall" list, with a brief description of what information you are looking for.
e.g.,
Timothy Kelly - born abt. 1774 in the UK, married in 1808 in London, died in 1839 in Herefordshire, England.
I have been unable to find any record of Timothy's birth or his parents.
Then, on the talk page of the person, give a more in-depth explanation of the help that you need. This explanation should include 1) what you know, 2) what you want to find out, and 3) all the places you've looked so far.
Once a week, we will take the brick wall at the top of the list, and work on it together (as long as it meets the above requirements). Once a brick wall has been featured, it will be removed from the list, and will need to be added again, if you still want more help with it.(see talk page)
Submission rules
In order to ensure that we help as many people as possible, you can only have up to 3 brick walls listed at any time, and we won't feature the same person's submissions two weeks in a row.
Not just weekly
All of the people listed on this page are brick walls - please feel free to offer your help at any time, not just when a person is featured.
Featured Brick Wall
Our current Brick Wall is William (Covington?) Scott. Please take a look at this page, and let's work together to see if we can figure out who his family is, or at least give some good suggestions on where to look.
Please Feature My Brick Wall
- Person:Matilda Townsend (1) She is PROBABLY the daughter of Family:George_Townsend_and_Mary_Combs_(1), but since I have become quite strict I have yet to have any solid evidence linking them to her except through the fact that George Townsend's family is the only Townsend family in the area of Schuyler County IL when Matilda married in 1833. It might seem logical to simply conclude she is their daughter but I want to have a solid link. I dug through the probate record (most of which is online)- George Townsend's estate dragged on for several years but I was not able to find a disposition of it in the probate record. George Townsend Sr's sons also died in rather rapid succession nearby making the link even more troublesome. There is also one other daughter I would link to link to the same family. This generation hold up any further Townsend/Combs research for me. I still need to look in Adams Co IL records, where Matilda lived after her marriage, though.
- Person:William Smith (640) -- born 1823 in Boone County, Illinois (. . . he said, but maybe not), died of disease in the War, 1863. I know a good deal about him and his immediate family (and especailly his in-laws) but have been unable to identify his parents, though there are a couple of possibilities. Everything I know, and what theorizing I've done, are laid out in The Problem of William H. Smith, which I wrote to help me think about what I knew and what I didn't know. Related to all this is Person:Hayden Smith (4), who is almost certainly a close relative of some kind to William -- but not his father. (And there are several "Haydens" who may or may not be the same person.) I've run out of data sources to chew on and suggestions would be very welcome. --MikeTalk 10:36, 30 November 2012 (EST)
- Family:Andrew Mott and Unknown (1) - Andrew H. Mott died before his son Andrew Hathaway Mott was born in or near Saratoga County, NY. Who was his wife or mother of his son? At age 3 (1848) the son was given to his grandparents to be raised. This family resided in Schuylerville, Saratoga, NY. I have visited Saratoga County and searched court records, viewed family cemetery plot, found distant cousins who had family bibles and none of these bibles mentioned a marriage for Andrew H. Mott. The grandparents had been Quakers but a record shows they had been disowned. The last record for Andrew Hathaway Mott is when he buried his wife in Hammond, LA in 1909. Researchers have found no death record for Andrew Hathaway Mott in Louisiana and there appears to be no evidence that he was buried with his wife. --Susan Irish 18:32, 19 November 2012 (EST)
- John Burnham and his wife Eliza Huston were married in 1812 in Lincoln, Maine. They and their family are documented going forward, but I can't find good proof of their parents. There are (at least) three possible Johns, but no strong evidence tying Eliza's husband to any of them. And on the Huston's, I've had no luck at all.--Amelia 00:11, 22 November 2012 (EST)
- David Dial, born in about 1776, maybe in Tennessee, died 23 Jul 1846 in DuQuoin, Perry, Illinois.
- I would love to find out David's wife's name, and/or his birth information and parents' information. -- Jdfoote1 20:57, 1 December 2012 (EST)
All Brick Walls
If you're interested in other brick walls, you can view the entire list.
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