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101 Brick Wall Busters Paperback – May 23, 2010

by Editors of Family Tree Magazine (Contributor)

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Break through your brick walls!

Your family history research is humming along just fine–you've discovered a trove of old letters here, a census and a birth certificate there. Then something genealogists call a brick wall stops you cold: You can't find the record you need. Your great-grandmother's maiden name eludes you. You don't know where your immigrant ancestor was born.

Now you can meet those obstacles with the advice in 101 Brick Wall Busters: Solutions to Overcome Your Genealogical Challenges. This compilation of Family Tree Magazine experts' answers to readers' toughest questions offers solutions for beginning and veteran genealogists. You'll learn strategies and discover new resources for tracing missing ancestors, finding the right records, researching in the old country and more. And you can use our exclusive Records Checklist and Brick Wall Worksheet to formulate your plan of attack.

101 Brick Wall Busters is your secret weapon for getting over, around, under and through obstacles in your family history search.

Includes Brick Wall Busters on:

Research Strategies
Pinpointing Places
Unpuzzling Names
Organizing Your Research
Online Genealogy
Burned Records
Occupations
Kinship
Finding Women
Genetic Genealogy
International Research
Computerless Research
Records
Birth, Marriage and Death
Cemetery
Census
City Directories
Immigration
Military
Newspapers
Organizations, Institutions and Occupations
Tax
Wills
Ethnic Heritage
... and more!

Print length

144 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Family Tree Books
Publication date

May 23, 2010
Dimensions

6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

144030890X
ISBN-13

978-1440308901
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Family Tree Books (May 23, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 144030890X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440308901
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,359,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6,045 in Genealogy (Books)

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A Kid at 62

Answers to Reader's Questions

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020

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Interesting brick walls, but advice might be a bit dated. More websites have been created since the book was first published, so there are more resources available.

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Amazon Customer

Easy to read AND lots of good info!

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2012

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It is always easy to read 'how-to books' that are laced with humor. There are
some solutions that are obvious but enough that are the type, 'well why didn't
I think of that'. It is a short book that could be read in one or two evenings.
Easy to implement solutions in a non-technical language. Would purchase again
and also give as a gift.

5 people found this helpful

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Cindy

An Easy, Helpful Read

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2013

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I have been working on my family history for ten years and have run into some of the "brick walls" mentioned in the book. I have to say that the book did help steer me in a new direction in regard to the problems I was having. I downloaded it to my Kindle, read it in a day, and was ready to take the action needed to solve a few family history mysteries. Beginners in family history will find this text quite instructive, and those of us who have been working on genealogy for years will not be disappointed, either.

3 people found this helpful

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Nana

Great!

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020

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Used in a class of geneology research.
Found very useful!

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bearcatnat

Beginners may like this book

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016

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I wouldn't have bought this ebook had I known it's really just a compilation of past Q&A articles from Family Tree Magazine. Some of the sections are really a stretch to include in a book that is supposed to be about brick walls. Beginners may like this book, but more experienced users won't find much that is new for them. Skip this "book".

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Martha A. Murray

Scaling your Brick Walls

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2013

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Okay everyone has brick walls. Sometimes the answer is staring them in the face but they can't see it. This book is like a fresh set of eyes. It is 101 stories about other people's brick wall. Being in story form it is easier to digest than a textbook. Each can be applied to your brick wall. It might take several to scale your brick wall. It is like thinking outside the box. I got several new ideas to try on my brick walls.

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Louis Migliaccio

Help unlock information

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2019

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Thank you very much , this book helped me with my research.

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JLM

Suggest (by giving examples) where to find sites and places ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2017

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Suggest (by giving examples) where to find sites and places you may never have thought of looking.
Very informative for genealogist..