Family Mystery: Update 1 - Searching For My Unknown Great-grandfather
The Search Begins. In an earlier post, I introduced a family mystery and a controversial family question: Who was the biological father of my paternal grandmother? In that post, I discussed this particularly emotional brick wall and shared some of the currently-known information and some frustrating roadblocks. To try to overcome some of those roadblocks, I committed to engaging in a more methodical research process, one set out in the Family Locket Genealogists ' books, Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist's Guide (2018) and Research Like a Pro with DNA (2021). In this post, I will share some progress after completing initial steps discussed in their first book. Initial Progress. After working through the intial research steps, I have established the following in the quest to identify my paternal grandmother's biological father: Research Question (Type - To prove a family relationship.) Who were the biological parents of my paternal grandm...