Possibilities

             I like the idea of writing about possible answers to a genealogy problem.  As mentioned in the past, I have several brick walls on my paternal line.

Week 4 about a Theory in Progress covers my Reisner brick wall.  I need to locate church records in Wisconsin as well as in Iowa.  Maybe they will open a window or door.  I could also hire somebody to look up information in Germany.

Week 7 about What the Census Suggests is not so much about a brick wall but does remind me of items I need to look at for an immigrant ancestor on my maternal line.   Some of the items listed there are also possibilities for my Reisner family above.

Haueisen brick wall – will have to research in Bavaria.  Same issue as I have with the Reisner family, no church records are available online.

Other surnames include Sparr, Secor, Tuttle, Davis, McKinney, and Morgan.  I’ll need to locate church, census, newspapers, land, and vital records.  I just need to work on one problem at a time and write up what I want to accomplish.

Brick Walls in Family Research

 

I have lots of brick walls.  One I have already talked about - that is the Reisner family back in Week 5 under Challenges.

I have broken through the wall on my Ahrendt family.  However, I still have a lot more work to be done by locating church records in Mecklenburg.

I also need to work on the Haueisen family that was from Bavaria.  Here again, it will need to be church records.  Like the Reisner family, this is difficult to do as they have not been digitized.

Other paternal families that will require further research as time allows include the ancestors of Mary Jane Secor(e) and Bertha Davis.

My maternal side goes back a long way.  What I need to do first is validate the information I have before working on any brick walls.

Then I need to tackle my husband’s families.

Surnames A-Z: H Names

This idea of listing surnames over the coming weeks comes from The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog.  I think this will be fun.

Some of my surnames I have already posted information on . . . others I'm still working on.

Continuing the blog list of surnames for both mine and my husband's family that I'm doing genealogical research.  Maybe we connect, maybe not.

So . . . here are the H's:

Hankford - Ireland
Hastings - England
Haueisen - Germany (Bavaria)
Haute 
Heckert - Pennsylvania
Heistand - Pennsylvania
Hermans - Germany
Herndon - Virginia
Houghtaling - New York
Houston - Virginia
Humphrey - England
Hundley - Virginia
Hunsberger - Pennsylvania
Hurt - Kentucky, Virginia, England