Early on in my genealogy adventures, I came across Elizabeth Bartelott – born 3 October 1669…
Category: Brick Wall Strategies
Strategies you can use to break through your genealogy brick walls
Passing for white: ancestors who jumped the colour line
It’s that time in the university academic calendar where my schedule has been hijacked by a…
Southern African-American 19th Century naming conventions
Understanding 19th and early 20th Century naming conventions – the structure and method of naming children…
Recording names: Maiden names
One of the common challenges I come across in my family history research has to do…
What’s in a name #2: Getting to grips with the misspelling of names
There is another fun aspect of searching for your ancestors in historical records: the misspelling of…
What’s in a name #1: abbreviations & nicknames
Abbreviated first names one of the things to get to grips with when searching online census,…