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?
I may have to try this with my brick walls, but they have such generic names - Charles Wells, William Scott, etc. It's still worth a shot, though. ________________________________ From: "jans884@bellsouth.net" <jans884@bellsouth.net> To: LAOrleans <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] My brick wall from the newbie 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