2012 Goal for these Lines

Careful genealogists: let's work together for 2012 goals to publish the 20 hard questions associated with each of your lines. None of these lines in this blog are mine, they are my husband's. I have enough work for a life time on my own lines. Please contribute and help move the work along on "your" families.

Label your comment with the family name and date. Please share the sticking points you are sure of that we can work to solve. Let's don't be well meaning researchers repeating work over and over. A good place to start if you don't already have a list of questions is to check out the Rootsweb L-list which covers the last name you are researching. You should find conversations about people you are researching and you can pick up the original immigrant etc. This is an example for the Stanley family of a place to find questions on your lines. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index

One of my lines, the "Hightowers" has the information already pulled out. It included the names of the original immigrants who were believed to be brothers. This has been disproven by thorough DNA projects associated with the name. The fathers of the first immigrants have also not been identified. Last names for females that have come to be passed on as fact and are dis-proven would be nice to know about. Sometimes the person who first used the last name to test out a theory is discovered and is shocked to find out how this trial name has come to be known as fact and is repeated in every media known to genealogy. Thanks, Rhonda Wall