This page brings together a range of essays that detail the research methodology that facilitated the discovery of particular episodes in the family's history.
Our Carlisle Origins – My research debunked the old theory that William was a son of Ann Scarborough
Angus Flemings origins – Jim Fleming identified the baptism record that relates to his 4G grandfather, Angus Fleming.
Lahy family origins – How I identified the origins of the Lahy family (including Bohen and Tobin)
My tangled Ballantynes – How I straightened out the tangle caused when people with the same surname marry
The Ballantyne Roadblock – I overcame this roadblock thanks to a DNA hint and good old-fashioned genealogical investigation
Descent article - The Waples Roadblock – My article on circumventing a Waples family roadblock was published in the March 2019 issue of the journal Descent.
Finding Patrick Tobin – Jim Fleming identified our Patrick Tobin in a haystack full of namesakes.
The mystery photograph solved – I describe how I identified the Reed family as the subject of "the mystery photograph"