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In genealogy, brick walls are all too common. They are an invisible barrier that blocks us from progressing in our research. They can be anything from unknown name, date or location to missing or lost records. Some brick walls can be knocked down rather easily and some seem impenetrable. Like the physical brick wall, our brick walls seem to crumble only after a lot of picking at and the erosion of time. Picking at one's brick wall means hitting it from different angles by trying different approaches to the problem. We rack our brains trying to think of what we haven't yet tried.

Sometimes going around the wall works out. An example of this might be: after years of looking for a descendant's parents without success, trying to match likely candidates of the parent's parents and working from past to present. While this isn't the preferred route of your research, it may be worth a try if you've tried everything else. Of course then you must double check everything to make sure you haven't assumed a relationship was true.

They say time heals all wounds (or something like that), but it can also open some doors for genealogists. More and more records have been made available over the last few years. Historical and genealogically useful information is constantly being found, updated and/or indexed or will be in the near future.

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