Hit a Brick Wall? » Miscellaneous

Cyndi's List - Finding People

Phone Numbers, E-Mail Addresses, Mailing Addresses, Places, etc.

Cyndi's List - Googling for Grandma

Take some time to map your ancestors' lives and their migration patterns. Viewing these on Google Earth helps you to see the topography of the areas in which they lived. And doing that helps you see other possibilities for places to search.

Cyndi's List - Search Engines

Use any of the search engines on this page to do a search on a specific surname, place name or keyword that you are interested in. Read the help files and the FAQ for each search engine and learn how they each work. Try different combinations of words & phrases to maximize your search results.

Cyndi's List -Timelines

Exploring timelines and creating timelines helps to put your ancestor into historical perspective.

Library of Congress

One visitor to my site suggested checking the Library of Congress to see if your ancestor had a biography or an autobiography written about him or her. Another visitor pointed out that you should specifically check with the genealogy section "which contains genealogies sent to the the LC, some of them merely typed, many not published."

YouTube - 10 Top Tips for How to Bust Through Your Genealogy Brick Wall

Apply the Top 10 Genealogy Research Tips that Dave Obee gives Genealogy Gems Winner Sarah Stout at #Rootstech to your own research and get results.

YouTube - Breaking Through Your Genealogy Brick Walls

By Crista Cowan, Ancestry.com.