Beal has been intrigued, amazed, fascinated, and stunned by the wisdom, strength, and tenacity of mature…
Category: Brick Wall Strategies
Strategies you can use to break through your genealogy brick walls
Researching A Community of Enslaved People On A Plantation When All You Have Is Their First Name
It is easy to think professional genealogists have all the research answers. However, we get stuck…
S05 E25: Slavic Genealogy with Patrick-Joseph Elias
Beal has been intrigued, amazed, fascinated, and stunned by the wisdom, strength, and tenacity of mature…
S05 E24: Ron Levi – A Foundling’s Genealogical & Family History Journey
Beal has been intrigued, amazed, fascinated, and stunned by the wisdom, strength, and tenacity of mature…
A Fresh Take on Working with Pre-1850 U.S. Censuses
The 1850 U.S. Census was a landmark census. It was the first to enumerate an entire…
S04 E37 What’s New at MyHeritage with Daniel Horowitz
In this episode, Susan Anderson shares her considerable knowledge about how The Gold Rush Era marked…
Grappling with Old Fake News in Genealogy Research
Anyone with a nodding familiarity of national elections from 2016 to today in western societies is…
Using the Beyond Kin Methodology for Poorly Documented FPOC & Homesteading Ancestors
The Beyond Kin Project (https://beyondkin.org), developed by genealogy colleagues Donna Cox Baker and Frazine K. Taylor,…
Case Study: Researching Enslaved People Taken or Sold Downriver
The case I am working on couldn’t be more different. It involves the multiple movements of…
S03 E32: The Trials and Tribulations of a Newbie Genealogist with Nicol Jackson
Being a newbie genealogist is tough. We’ve all been there. There is so much new knowledge…