Shelly Kay Eitniear-Cherry's Blog (2)

What a joy to expand a branch on your family tree.  I was recently contacted on Facebook by a young woman who asked me if I knew the connection from their family to mine family.  I emailed the young woman and told you I would take a look and see.  Well, after about three hours of researching and comparing trees, I found the branch.  We connect from my 3 great grandfather Martin Etnyre, her connection is his brother Lenhard Eidenire. WOW is all I have to say about connecting with a branch that… Continue

Have you hit a brick wall in your research? I am sure all of us have a brick wall on a surname at some point or another in our research. I have had several. What do you do about it? How have you broken down that brick wall?



I have had a brick wall on my SUTHERLAND family and of course I am at a brick wall with my SMITH family. I had my Grandpa SUTHERLAND, my Great Grandpa SUTHERLAND and my GGGrandpa Sutherland but could not go any further. I thought it would be easy as my GGGrandpa's… Continue