How has your family history been doing in 2023?

[coombs]

As 2023 is almost coming to a close I hope we can continue to break down some brickwalls in 2024. But I would imagine some of us have hopefully managed to solve some brickwalls in 2023.

2023 has been a bumper year for my Suffolk direct lot, as I found a 1809 marriage that I had been searching for, for years, turns out the bride was married before and the groom's usual recorded surname was written down in the marriage register as a variant of the name, showing how you must consider such things at all times when looking for a marriage, baptism, burial, census record etc.

And I found a 5xgreat grandfather was sent to Australia from Suffolk in 1791.

And Suffolk FHS has published several more baptism CD's for deaneries in East Suffolk which has helped me a lot.

[Marianthompson47]

It sounds super complicated. I will be giving up Ancestry. Finding family and building my tree in my dad's side was very easy but I know very little of my mum's side as they came from Poland .. Then under Russian flagship in the early 1900s.

[Erato]

10 Websites for Polish Genealogy Research:

https://familytreemagazine.com/heritage/polish/polish-genealogy-websites/

[Stanwix England]

Thanks to DNA I broke a wall that I've had for over a decade. My 2nd Great Grandfather is no longer missing.

Hoping to do the same to track down another 2nd Great Grandfather.

[hepburn]

I wish I could find out more on my G G Grandfather

[Stanwix England]

DNA has been the only way I've been able to do it, as this was a situation of an illegitimate birth. Hopefully one day you'll have that success too.

[ggrocott]

Still got most of the same old brick walls but I have found a lot of distant cousins and in the process smashed one brick wall. 

[Pheno]

Still have my brickwall - Michael Murphy b. Ireland c. 1799!

Pheno

[Milliepede]

Still got all mine  . Gets too disheartening to keep trying and trying but well done to those who have broken through theirs  .