{"id":3786,"date":"2017-01-27T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T14:55:25","slug":"friday-finds-brickwalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/friday-finds-brickwalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday finds: Brickwalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have all run into them. This week I have been looking at brick walls.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All genealogists do, some time or another, run into brick walls. Fortunately, some of these walls are possible to break down. Others may be a bit more tough to deal with. Here are a few websites that deals with the problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div>\n<p>In the\u00a0<strong>Genes Reunited Blog<\/strong>\u00a0I find the article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genesreunited.co.uk\/blog\/genes-reunited-blog\/archive\/2013\/9\/25\/five-ways-to-break-down-the-family-search-brick-wall\" target=\"_blank\">Five ways to break down the family search brick wall<\/a>. These are simple ways to try to knock down your wall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3792\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/friday-finds-brickwalls\/hammer-682767_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hammer-682767_640.jpg?fit=640%2C515&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,515\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 70D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hammer-682767_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hammer-682767_640.jpg?fit=640%2C515&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3792 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hammer-682767_640.jpg?resize=223%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hammer-682767_640.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hammer-682767_640.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and Author. In this blog article from the <strong>Genealogy Bank blog<\/strong>, Gena provides four tips to help solve a problem the dreaded \u201cbrick wall.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/hit-a-brick-wall-4-genealogy-tips-to-break-through.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hit a Brick Wall? 4 Genealogy Tips to Break Through<\/a>. Her first advice is, surprisingly, to take a break!?<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div>\n<p><strong> <span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">Duncan Kuehn<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\"> in the Family search blog tells about how\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/blog\/en\/newspapers-smash-genealogy-brick-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Newspapers Help Smash a Genealogy Brick Wall<\/a>. An increasing number of newspapers are being made available online, and this is a source that we should utilize.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cathy Meder-Dempsey\u00a0<\/strong>has devoted her entire blog to <a href=\"https:\/\/openingdoorsinbrickwalls.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opening doors in Brick walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div>\n<p>In the <strong>AncestorCloud blog, Karen Grizzard\u00a0<\/strong>give some advice in her article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ancestorcloud.com\/2015\/08\/31\/demolishing-research-brick-walls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Demolishing Research Brick Walls<\/a>\u00a0The AncestorCload blog seems to be an extensive website with quite a lot of information that you might find interesting to take a look at.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2027\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wall-1013682_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wall-1013682_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2027 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?resize=202%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>In <strong>Lisa Louise Cook&#8217;s Genealogy gems<\/strong> I find an article by <strong>Sunny Morton<\/strong>, that gives suggestion on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/lisalouisecooke.com\/2014\/04\/genealogy-brick-walls-14-strategies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solve Your Genealogy Brick Walls<\/a>. One of the suggestions is to post &#8220;your problem&#8221; online. I am happy to post your information here on my blog like I did with <strong>Cheryl Tolofson&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>story in the article<a href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/11\/help-needed-in-sunndal\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;Help needed in Sunndal&#8221;<\/a>. This way your information gets picked up by the search engines and may be found by people working on the same problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div>\n<p>I hope you found something of interest here. If you have favourite websites that you would liek to share with your fellow genealogists, don&#8217;t hesitate to send the link to me. I can include that link in a &#8220;Friday finds&#8221; article or you could have the entire column and share several links. Go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/index.php\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">contact page<\/a> and send me a word!<\/p>\n<h6>Have a great weekend!<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all run into them. 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