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The Girl from Alabama
I remember my grandmother once mentioning that one of her grandmothers was from the South. This was surprising to me but I didn’t get much further information. My gg-grandmother Emma was born in...
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Top Five Brick Walls
I see on the blogs recently that “brick wall” is a controversial term. So let me acknowledge these are problems I simply haven’t solved yet. I’m hoping that putting them here will spark someone else to...
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The Brick Wall Stories: Hannah Andrews
I occurred to me that many amateur family historians like myself would be interested in the process of breaking down a brick wall (although in this case, it’s holding strong). Here are a few steps so...
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The Clue
How it started I heard from a blog reader on Saturday concerning a post I did a few months ago about my ggg-grandmother Hannah (Andrews) Lamphere. Because Hannah may have been born in Massachusetts...
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10 Steps For Starting Your Family History
It can be tough to know where to start when you decide to look for your ancestors. Many people I “meet” through this blog have questions about getting started, and I thought they would like to see a...
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The Brick Wall Stories: A Theory on Hannah Andrews
Hannah Andrews My 3x-great grandmother Hannah Andrews has been a mystery that I have been working on since I started genealogy. I am related to her in the following way: my grandmother Edna May...
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A Census of the Census and 9 Other Things I Tried
Looking for a link between the Jesse Andrews family of Warwick, R.I. of 1810 and the Jesse Andrews family of Ashford, CT, 1820 has required a lot of patience and thought. Here are 10 things I tried...
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A Visit to the Connecticut State Library
I visited the Connecticut State Library for the first time this week. The library, located in downtown Hartford on Capital Avenue, has a genealogy/history section on the lower level. I parked in the...
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On Poverty, Records, and Chicken Thieves
So in my search for the origins of the Jesse and Sarah Andrews who lived in Ashford, Connecticut in 1820, I have concentrated recently (see the previous post) on a family by that name who seemed to...
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A Visit to the Library of Congress
This week I had the opportunity to visit the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The massive library consists of three buildings: the Jefferson Building, the Adams Building, and the Madison...
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How I Solved the Hannah Andrews Brick Wall
I recently pinned down the family of Hannah Andrews, my ggg-grandmother. I thought I would give an account here of how that happened.
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A Better Look at the Census
Jesse and Sarah Andrews’ children in the census Recently I decided to do a search in the 1830 Federal Census for the Andrews children that appear to be missing from Jesse and Sarah Andrew’s home and...
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In Search of Freelove Andrews
My recent DNA matches to other descendants of the Andrews family of East Greenwich, Rhode Island helped me to realize that I had found the correct origins for my ggg-grandmother Hannah Andrews, but...
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The Andrews of Rhode Island
Harriet Frances James Descendants of John MacAndrews, who was present in Quidnesset, Rhode Island in the late 1600’s, owe a great deal to their early 20th-century genealogist, Miss Harriet Frances...
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A Visit to Coventry Town Hall
This is the story (just the beginning) of finding a family for my 5x-great grandmother, Freelove (—-) Andrews, born around 1746. I am related to Freelove in the following way: my grandmother Edna May...
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