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Master Accreditation Of The Genealogical Institute M. A. G. I. Course Lesson # 6 How To Breakdown Your Brick Wall Master Ws

To acquaint the researcher with various techniques in identifying the parentage of their ancestor when no direct information can be found, consequently known in the genealogical field as “brick walls.” After 38 years of family history research, the question I am most often asked…”How do I breakdown my brick wall?” A brick wall is an ancestor you run across that just seems to pop-up out of thin air. You can’t seem to find information about them or their parentage. Either, this ancestor is the end-of-the-line in your family history tree or because of a lack of information about them, they create an end-of-line problem. We all have them. Usually these ancestors are pre-1850 census ancestors. It is frustrating when you run across these individuals because we can’t find or build any bridges.

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