We found that we had a Brickwall.
There's three of us who started working together on this Brickwall. We had no idea of what we were getting into. Our research / findings of where / what they would show us, our each and individual work was possibly over a two to three year period. To be working on this together would perhaps help in breaking it down.The Brickwall that one of us initially had, but had a connection with all three of us. It came from having a same named person who was born in the 1870's. Their families history / histories showed that they had lived in the same part of the country for some time and at the same time. We had very little on his or their past to go on. Only one name of a distant relation and of where she had lived. I in my line had a same named person but did not have any idea that we would be connected.
Unfortunately I / we have living relation's who still prefer us not to continue with our research and open up on our findings.They want us to still keep everything under wraps, as our predecessors, had wanted to do. I'm hoping I'm explaining this in an understandable way. I am trying to keep the explaining of our family history without offending anyone.
We all put together our finding's This is when we first thought that we may be distantly related, but we still needed more proof.
Continuing on with our research, our finding's, we did keep questioning them to ourselves.
A certain further two things showed up / happenings in our predecessors lives that we could possibly be right with our findings.
None of us would still not fully commit themselves on what we had found. We then decided to leave it alone at that point and put our researching of it on the back burner so to speak.
We did just need that something more positive with our findings. Time wise with us, this was about six to eight months before the 1911 census was to become available. We thought that there may?? be something in the 1911 Census to hopefully convince and put a stop to our research on this.
Results that came out of the 1911 Census were what was needed. In one household there were family members of Grandparents ,Nieces, Nephew's, Cousins, Uncle's and Aunt's, all at that time, all altogether in one house. These altogether, we had the proof of who they were and are. All three of us are distantly related. We now have closed our research on the certain family members, their past, and what they were trying to forget altogether. The living family who wanted us not to research or uncover anything of our past is now happy that we have stopped.
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All three of us are sure we would have not been able to do this alone, some family knowledge, perseverance, patients and more than one set of eyes is what has helped us break this Brickwall. Another pair of eyes helping, or just looking. Its better still if the other person's are a distantly related researcher/s. My own thinking on family history is that you cannot do enough research to make sure you have the right person's. We only see what the records we have chosen show us, just check, make sure, you have the right records?.
Our ancestors deliberately altered the true facts to try and move on with their lives. Unfortunately it does seem that the altering of the facts did catch up with them, with very unhappy results.
The computer and of what record's are available today are the main reasons of how we managed to solve some of our Brickwalls. I cannot leave out the help / knowledge and assistance that comes out from the Rootschat site, which is just amazing and WOW's me every time. It's a very rare occurrence to get a nil response for any posting that you may be requesting. Many thanks,
Happy Hunting, Best Regards to all, Just J
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