March 11, 2016

What to Do if Your Research Isn’t Getting Any Results



As any experienced genealogist knows, some family lines yield information much more readily than others. You might find record after record on one line leading you all the way back to the first immigrant to America and beyond. Another line may be full of brick walls and cause you to work hard for just a trickle of information. Once in awhile, the information seems to stop coming at all on a line. This is naturally quite frustrating to genealogists, but it doesn’t have to be the end of your research on that line. Here’s what to do if your research isn't getting any results...