Are you or one of your kin researching your family’s roots/writing a family memoir, and find yourself stumped by enigmas you would like to try and solve? In fact, everyone gets stonewalled by unanswered questions that go beyond names, dates and place of origin!
A new concept in genealogy – looking at the most mundane data such as censuses as ‘clues’ in solving puzzles, rather than just ‘facts’ for building your family tree – offers breakthrough solutions. See how it works in this recent article in “The Forward”: https://forward.com/culture/482550/what-programs-like-finding-your-roots-miss-and-how-i-tracked-down-my-own/
Daniella Weiss Ashkenazy, Kfar Warburg – author of “Playing Detective with Family Lore”
