One of my big genealogical goals is breaking through some major brick walls I have. Sometimes, I think it will never happen. Without naming names, but by seperating it into families tagged by letters, here are some of my problems-
Family A, with branch off B-
Following my maternal grandfather’s line, his mother (my great grandma) has a genealogical lineage that can be better traced. Some of them going back to other countries. However, going up his dad’s side (my great grandpa), we hit trouble. We find both of his parents (my great-great grandparents- we’ll call them B). Well, looking for their parents, we do have parents for the woman (third great grandparents) and her mom’s side ends there, but her dad’s parents (4th great) are listed before the line ends. Not very far back, but beats something else in this same family. Oh, I might should add that her family might be part Native, Melungeon, African American or something of the sort, which could make them more difficult to trace.
Going back to my great great grandparents (B) if we try to go up the male line, we are in trouble. We have possible parents for him, but none proven. We have evidence for a couple different ones. We also have a name given by a really elderly lady who knew his sister, that is supposedly family, possibly a their grandpa. However, we can prove neither thier parentage or their granpda, and find little on their alleged parents and grandpa. This man is supposed to be Native American, but we can’t prove that either, though this is one of the few of several claims of Native Ancestry in my family that I am actually pretty convinced of being authentic. There are about two (maybe three) that I am pretty convinced of, and the others, I have no idea. They may be true, maybe not.
Family C-
My maternal grandmother, going up through her female line, woman after woman, I get to my fourth great grandma and it ends there. I don’t know either of her parents. As for her daughter, my third great grandma, I cannot find her dad. He will be even more difficult to find because I only have a last name and location for him, and the date of her birth to tell us he was alive and old enoguh to be fathering kids. To find the man’s name and family, we might have to do DNA tests for people from the descending family and also people descended from others of the same last name, around the same areaand time, who have better documented ancestories (and thus names), to see if we connect.
There are many more, but these are particularly annoying me.
