Another thing I do is track people with the same surname in the same locality.  I track their extended families, too.  Most times I've found a relationship connection to my original person. Another trick is to research thoroughly all of the people related to the original person, even people related to spouses of siblings, cousins, etc.  Can't tell you how many times those extended "relatives" have given me clues and solved mysteries. Obituaries and society marriage notices are extremely helpful. Don't forget cemeteries.  Many times family members are buried in the same cemetery, in the same tomb, or sometimes in the same area of a cemetery.  Copy the names and research them, too. Alexa --- On Fri, 6/22/12, jans884@bellsouth.net <jans884@bellsouth.net> wrote: From: jans884@bellsouth.net <jans884@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] My brick wall from the newbie To: "LAOrleans" <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 22, 2012, 9:10 AM As a matter of fact I did this with two parts of my family from Louisiana I collected all the HEPP and the POTTIER/POTIER/POTHIER folks in trees and then began to put them together.  That and tons of suggestions from Christophe Landry and Creole KCat finally figured out my group.  Works great and then can be merged when you figure it all out. Jan S - Orlando, FL -------Original Message------- From: Shelia Salomone Date: 6/22/2012 4:36:56 AM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] My brick wall from the newbie I forgot to ask another question regarding this query/help request. Does anyone know who the MAURICE and SEMOUR/SYMOURE progenitors were? I might try to work backwards. And another thing I thought about doing was to list all MAURICE names that can be found in LA.  (Just do genealogy trees with this name.). And then try to group them into families. Has anyone ever done this kind of strategy and been successful with finding their long lost brick wall ancestor? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I agree with your logic. But, unfortunately I can't do this with this couple. The only information I have is their son Jean's family. And he would not talk about his family so even this couples grandchildren did not know anything about their grandparents or even Aunts or Uncles or cousins. We don't know if their son Jean had siblings even. So, there is no where to go with the extended family. But, I think I will just start putting together all of the MAURICE families in LA and see if something pops! I have searched all of Father HEBERT's books, Diocese of Baton Rouge, Diocese of New Orleans, and several books. Also, Roots Web, familysearch, and ancestry. What would you suggest as more sources in LA where I might get lucky? Like I said earlier many of my LA family have done research over the last 40+ years with no luck and they had access to many of the resources there. Is there any newer sources that they might not have searched? I estimate this couple was probably born around 1830s but is only a guess. Thank you, Shelia -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Alexa Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 1:23 AM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] My brick wall from the newbie Another thing I do is track people with the same surname in the same locality.  I track their extended families, too.  Most times I've found a relationship connection to my original person. Another trick is to research thoroughly all of the people related to the original person, even people related to spouses of siblings, cousins, etc.  Can't tell you how many times those extended "relatives" have given me clues and solved mysteries. Obituaries and society marriage notices are extremely helpful. Don't forget cemeteries.  Many times family members are buried in the same cemetery, in the same tomb, or sometimes in the same area of a cemetery.  Copy the names and research them, too. Alexa --- On Fri, 6/22/12, jans884@bellsouth.net <jans884@bellsouth.net> wrote: From: jans884@bellsouth.net <jans884@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] My brick wall from the newbie To: "LAOrleans" <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 22, 2012, 9:10 AM As a matter of fact I did this with two parts of my family from Louisiana I collected all the HEPP and the POTTIER/POTIER/POTHIER folks in trees and then began to put them together.  That and tons of suggestions from Christophe Landry and Creole KCat finally figured out my group.  Works great and then can be merged when you figure it all out. Jan S - Orlando, FL -------Original Message------- From: Shelia Salomone Date: 6/22/2012 4:36:56 AM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] My brick wall from the newbie I forgot to ask another question regarding this query/help request. Does anyone know who the MAURICE and SEMOUR/SYMOURE progenitors were? I might try to work backwards. And another thing I thought about doing was to list all MAURICE names that can be found in LA.  (Just do genealogy trees with this name.). And then try to group them into families. Has anyone ever done this kind of strategy and been successful with finding their long lost brick wall ancestor? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message