Sunday, September 23, 2007

brick walls on Daughtridge, Land, and Braswell lines

Well, I suppose I've hit a brick wall on Daughtridge. I found two different websites and one says the father of John Daughtridge is William Benjamin, and the other says it's James. So I have no clue. I've tried looking over the census records, but they don't seem to be any help. My hunch is James but I have nothing to prove it.

As for Land, I haven't been able to find any more info on Sally Land.
:( I would really like to find the name of her husband, which I know is Braswell. What makes matters even more complicated is that there is another Sally Land in Edgecombe Co, but she isn't my Sally Land. Of course I've found plenty of info about her.

As for the rest of the Land Line, I did find some more information (although nothing verified) on where this line has come from. I've got Charles Land, son of Curtis Land III, his father is Curtis Land II, his father is Curtis Land I, and he apparently came to Virginia from Middlesex, England around 1650, and I found that his father is William Land. Of course, like i say, none of this info is verified with sources, only information I got from postings on message boards, but it's all I've got for now. I don't even know how I would begin to verify all of that! But I have a hunch that it's right. I know my family came from England.

I'm driving myself a little crazy b/c i keep running into brick walls. I feel like I'm the only person even researching some of these people b/c everytime I do a search on the ancestry.com message boards, I come up with 0 messages as matches. :( It's not very fun playing geneasolitaire :(

So I think for now, I should take a break on researching the Land and Daughtridges and all of the other lines i'm having trouble with. Sometimes if I go away from it for a while and come back later, I find something at a later time. Like for instance, I wasn't even looking for info on Charles Land when I stumbled across his will, and that led me to Sally. So yeah, time to take a break. I will come back to it another time.

But I'm not taking a break from researching the rest of the tree. I think now I should spend a little time researching my Barnes, Winstead, and Batchelor lines. Maybe I'll have better luck with them.

Oh, and I haven't got around to my video project yet. I didn't feel well yesterday so maybe later today or this week if I get the time. I'll get around to it eventually!

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