And since the last posting, I have spent a number of hours disproving that my 4th great-grandfather was from Londonderry, Ireland. Instead, I have reinstated his secondary title “Brick Wall”. My original research indicated that he lived in Pennsylvania and some sources indicate that he was also born there. The earlier confusion was a person with the same name and birth year and location was also in Pennsylvania, but born in Ireland.

This is not the first time I have had to drop back to square one. My beginnings in genealogy started with a pedigree chart created by my aunt and copied by my mother in the 1930s as a school assignment. With the help of their grandmother, Effie Lee, they defined a link to the Lees of Virgina. I researched that for almost 30 years trying to prove my great-grandmother was not makin’ stuff up. But, she was. She was a descendant of the Lees of Connecticut, not Virginia.