Other people's family history mysteries :-D
When you hit a genealogy roadblock, there's only one thing to do--get started on other family members!
I created a family tree for a friend which I recently deleted as it was giving me his hints, but he was still amazed that his family tree could be traced back to Swiss dukes and duchesses. He started off on his own and I'm kinda happy about connecting someone to their past. The fun thing was that his family tree was well-documented, so it was easy to verify more recent names and places with him and keep going backwards.
Hubs, alas, has no interest in genealogy, or, rather doesn't feel the need to know. Well, I do, dangit! One of his cousins already did some of the pre-work on Ancestry, so it was easy to know I was on the right path. Hubs maternal grandfather's ancestors are solidly from Yorkshire, England. It goes back to the 1400s, so I'll have to research the area's history.
Now, usually if you enter enough information into Ancestry, it starts coughing up all sorts of hints, but it's not doing so for my FIL family, even though his mother has a fairly unique name. I feel a challenge ahead, LOL!
I created a family tree for a friend which I recently deleted as it was giving me his hints, but he was still amazed that his family tree could be traced back to Swiss dukes and duchesses. He started off on his own and I'm kinda happy about connecting someone to their past. The fun thing was that his family tree was well-documented, so it was easy to verify more recent names and places with him and keep going backwards.
Hubs, alas, has no interest in genealogy, or, rather doesn't feel the need to know. Well, I do, dangit! One of his cousins already did some of the pre-work on Ancestry, so it was easy to know I was on the right path. Hubs maternal grandfather's ancestors are solidly from Yorkshire, England. It goes back to the 1400s, so I'll have to research the area's history.
Now, usually if you enter enough information into Ancestry, it starts coughing up all sorts of hints, but it's not doing so for my FIL family, even though his mother has a fairly unique name. I feel a challenge ahead, LOL!