Road Trip for Roadblocks

“Road Trip for Roadblocks:  Karena Elliott offers 10 Steps for On Site Research to help find those difficult ancestors”

The internet is a tremendous asset for genealogy research. There’s simply no other way I could have identified and tracked the 16,000+ people now listed in my family tree.  However, sooner or later, every researcher will hit a roadblock and have to consider actually putting “boots on the ground.”  This article resulted from my own road trip, a case study with a very happy ending.

Genealogy has been an interest for almost 30 years.  This feature article for Your Genealogy Today magazine was published in the July/August 2017 issue.  It is not available on line.  If you would like to read the article, please send me an email through the web site and I will provide you with a pdf file of the 3 page article.