14/06/2019 - My tangled Ballantynes

My tangled Ballantynes

Until recently, my research on the Ballantyne family was stalled at a roadblock. Having got around that obstacle (see The Ballantyne roadblock), I moved on to undertake additional research on this family. That research could be fairly described as untangling the Ballantynes, because the documentary trail for the genealogist is a real tangle.

The tangle is caused by the fact that Christina Ballantyne (whose ancestry I explored in The Ballantyne Roadblock) married Thomas Ballantyne. This prompts the question: was Christina Ballantyne related to Thomas Ballantyne before their marriage? Were they cousins?

My essay My tangled Ballantynes is an outline of my efforts to untangle my tangled Ballantynes.