I posted another blog post about my "Top Ten Genea-Mysteries" in 2014, and it is time for an update!  I'm hoping that by pos...

  MARGARET wife of RICHARD LOCKE DIED March 1, 1860 Age 64 [poem illegible] Most of my “Brick Wall Ancestors” are females, usually unknown w...

My great grandmother, Carrie Batchelder (1872 - 1963) surrounded by family members in Hamilton, Massachusetts This is part four of m...

Gloucester Fisherman's Wife Memorial My 4 th great grandfather, Thomas Lewis, is named as the father of Frederick Augustus Lewis...

CREE / CRAY / CREIGH My 7 th great grandfather, Nicholas Cree, is a mystery.  I don’t know his birth or death, but only that he marri...

JILLINGS / GELLINS /  JILLENS / JILLINS Thomas Jillings, my 7 th great grandfather, is a mystery.  I don’t know his parents, or hi...

HOVEY My 5 th great grandmother, Mary Hovey, was born about 1751 and died 15 January 1832 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.  On 17 July 17...

I have two RANDALL lines, that seem to be completely unrelated. In 2015 I wrote a Surname Saturday post on Richard Randall (1633 – 1713...

LAMBERT / LOMBARD / LAMPORT / LAMPERT / LUMBARD Lambert family, probably of Boston, is one of my biggest brickwall mysteries in my f...

Catherine Unknown, my 6 th great grandmother, was the wife of Increase WYMAN of Burlington (now Billerica), Massachusetts.  She has no...

Every month on the 10 th day I publish a blog post with a top ten list… The proverbial genealogical brickwall is a seemingly insur...

SMITH My 8 th great grandmother Hannah Smith married her husband, George Lillie on 15 November 1659.  Who was her father? According t...

Susanna Hix (1768 – 1859), my 4 th great grandmother, was a mystery to me because I could not find a vital record that listed her paren...

The first ASHBY in this lineage is Edmund Ashby, born about 1640 and died about 1733.  It is unknown who his parents are, but perhaps he...