2012 Genealogy Goals

Careful genealogists: let's work together for 2012 goals to publish the 20 hard questions associated with each line. Please contribute and help move the work along on your families.

Label your comment with the family name and date. Please share the sticking points you are sure of that we can work to solve. Let's don't be well meaning researchers repeating work over and over. A good place to start if you don't already have a list of questions is to check out the Rootsweb L-list which covers the last name you are researching. You should find conversations about people you are researching and you can pick up the original immigrant etc. This is an example for the Stanley family of a place to find questions on your lines. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index

One of my lines, the "Hightowers" has the information already pulled out. It included the names of the original immigrants who were believed to be brothers. This has been disproven by thorough DNA projects associated with the name. The fathers of the first immigrants have also not been identified. Last names for females that have come to be passed on as fact and are dis-proven would be nice to know about. Sometimes the person who first used the last name to test out a theory is discovered and is shocked to find out how this trial name has come to be known as fact and is repeated in every media known to genealogy. Thank you, Rhonda Wall

Blanchard Family Questions

I am starting a long term project of compiling the most common Blanchard Family questions associated with my line of Blanchards which I believe to be from Thomas Blanchard (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanch-l/thomjosb.html#I2). I expect around 20 solid questions to develop. the first question comes from: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanch-l/thomjosb.html

The Blanchards seem to stem from two men Thomas and Joseph Blanchard from 1590ish from Clatford, Hants, ENG, who are often put together as brothers although there is no evidence to support that.

1. Are Joseph and Thomas Blanchard who were immigrants from Clatford, Hants, ENG England brothers in the late 1500 and who immigrated to the US to MA?