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Welcome to Ancestor- Brickwalls

Welcome to Ancestor-Brickwalls website.

 

You know how really frustrating it is!
You are sailing on happily with your genealogy / family history research, when you hit that inevitable proverbial brickwall with one or many of your ancestors! It is one simple fact of life that every genealogist faces, those dreaded ancestor-brickwalls - the wanted names!. You have reached a brickwall, but not necessarily a dead end.

So you are looking for that brickwall? Stuck on that wanted name that you cannot find any information for? You have exhausted the traditional avenues of research and don’t know where to go next. Need to get some genealogy links to help?

Well, this site www.ancestor-brickwalls.co.uk is for you! On this site you can:

  • Add your own Ancestor Brickwalls.
  • Search for those Ancestor Brickwalls.
  • Other users will be able to search and link with you.
  • Link with others around the world and start exchanging your family history / genealogy!

Tear Down Those Brick Walls - Ancestor by Ancestor with our help using our Ancestor-Brickwall system. 

Its easy! Start now by registering and then start entering as many ancestor brickwalls as you want.

 
What is Genealogy?

Genealogy is the study of the descendants of families and persons from an ancestor or ancestors. This study is undertaken by many people out of interest in their personal and family origins. As a hobby it can become pleasantly (No really!) addictive, at least to the person concerned that is!

The study is also undertaken professionally, not just in order to provide a commercial service that can be used by people who are seeking help in researching their origins, but also for very serious legal and financial reasons, for example, where a person has died with out leaving a will and with no known family decendants.

Because of this there are accepted standards for doing genealogy "correctly and properly" - standards that we recommend you seek to learn and emulate.

The term Family History ..........................
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How to Start your Genealogy

How You Begin your Genealogy / Family History:

Family history can be an extremely interesting and absorbing hobby. However, if not tackled in a methodical way, it can also become very frustrating and even expensive.

To avoid such pitfalls it is important to go through this time honoured list of preliminaries.

1) Note the names of your close family and draw a rough family tree, starting with yourself at the bottom. If you are only able to go back as far as your grandparents, you are doing alright, particularly if you can fill in most or all of the birth, marriage and death (BMD) dates.
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Latest Brickwalls Added

hurst - Lancashire
Date(s) : 1812-18141
Tate - All Scotland
Date(s) : 1853-1928
Harris - Surrey
Date(s) : c1864 - 1931
James - Hampshire
Date(s) : 1770-1835
DONALD - All Scotland
Date(s) : C1855 to 1935
Beech - England
Date(s) : 1850 to present
Farrant - Middlesex
Date(s) : 1830 to 1900
Farrant - Middlesex
Date(s) : 1830 to 1900
Farrant - Middlesex
Date(s) : 1830 to 1900
Farrant - Oxfordshire
Date(s) : 1830 to 1899
Mather - Lancashire
Date(s) : 1650-1750
McCready - All Ireland
Date(s) : 1840 to 1878
Bourdiec - Devon
Date(s) : 1700 - 1850
foulser - London
Date(s) : 1860-1900
Jessica Simpson - Ayrshire
FRITCH - London
haffie - All Scotland
Date(s) : 1800-1900
torkington - England
morrison - London
Date(s) : 1800 to 1900
Green - Herefordshire
Date(s) : 1700 to 1900
Renton - Durham
Date(s) : 1700 to 1900
Renton - Durham
Date(s) : 1700 to 1900
LANG - All England
Date(s) : 1835 to1840
Hollingworth - Yorkshire
Date(s) : 1906 to 1975
Fritch - England
Marren - Lancashire
Date(s) : 1850-1864
Laing - Scotland
Matthyew Fritch - England
Reichel - London
Date(s) : 1859 to 19409-1940
HURREN - Australia
Date(s) : 1926-PRESENT
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