Family Tree has tapered off!

[guest189040]

There is more than one branch in a tree and plenty more GGreat Grandparents and their siblings to research.

Fill in the blanks in the siblings and you may just find someone like I did who is my 3rd Cousin and she has physically visited the churches and records archives to research our family and has supplied me with a lot of information that is simply not yet online.

[Andrew Tarr]

My father's father was born in southern Ireland of an Irish-born mother, although most of the Tarrs didn't stay there after 1882.  My only clue to the Irish line was the surname Curtis given to a great-uncle.  Without great effort I found the photo of a gravestone in Dungarvan for both Irish parents, also including the names of three known grandchildren, so 100% certainty.  Gravestones can be a useful source of information.

[coombs]

May be a good idea to concentrate on the ancestors you have found, and maybe their siblings and cousins, many of them must have travelled across the world and emigrated etc. You could look for electoral rolls, poor law records, school records, ratebook, newspapers for any extra info on the ancestors you have found.

[TonyMcGartland]

Believe me I have went across every individual on my tree to trace their births, marriage and deaths. I have went top to bottom and sideways and can find no more. Perhaps, a break could renew my energy.

[coombs]

I am still eagerly awaiting Suffolk, Bucks, Berks and Durham records to come onto Ancestry or FindMyPast, like they have done with Essex, London, Norfolk, Somerset, Dorset etc.

It is a case of waiting for more records to come online for a county of interest, especially if you live hundreds or thousands of miles from the county.

[TonyMcGartland]

In an amazing twist, just a few days ago I found living relatives in California state and we are in contact now - this is unbelievable.

[snooziflooze]

I'm having a break at the moment.  Since finding a marriage in 1699, I've not been able to push back my direct blood line beyond that date.  It's very frustrating.  The only thing I can think of is contacting the TNA about hearth tax redemption certificates to see if they shed any light on my ag lab ancestors.  The parish records seem to remain stubbornly silent.

On the other hand, I've suddenly found a marriage for my great aunt in Canada in 1930.  I know she worked there in the early 1900s, but thought she'd returned to the UK by 1923.  So every cloud....

[coombs]

Often you find an elusive marriage and think you have a whole new line through the bride and her family but find you yet again reach a dead end. That is part and parcel of genealogy though, some lines you cannot get past 1800, others you can get back to Charlemagne.

Or you find a possible grandparent of an ancestor and their tree is quite interesting, but you cannot find the link yet.

[UK4753]

Like most researchers I have come to dead ends.  However, I realize not all records of the world have been digitized / are searchable at the moment, and so my stragegy is simply patience.

In the meantime I have filled in my tree with siblings (and their spouses) of direct ancestors, hoping a DNA match or even an Ancestry hint may pop up and get me back on track.