I have written about past brick walls and some of the ways I attempt to move through them.
One of those is focussing on the witnesses to marriage, as they are often relations (I broke down a major brick wall several years ago by using the witness to my paternal great grandparents' wedding and was able to find that he was a first cousin by tracing back his tree, and confirming it with DNA matches of mine at the 4th cousin level :)
So this is the latest one I have decided to revisit...it is a bit far back (especially for Irish records, where the marker of 1800 is often the date-limit of somewhat reliable research. It is worth trying....
Jun 30,1788 FLEMING, William GREEN, Isabella
witness BRIGGS, Thomas
wish me luck!
