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Brick Walls

Here are two handouts for breaking down “brick walls” in your research.
They were created by Ginny Audet at the Newton Free Library.

1 Handout for Building Brick Walls

2. Handout for How do We Tear Down Brick Walls

Upcoming Events

Sun 07

Virtual Research Sunday

March 7 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Tue 16

JGSGB Book Group

March 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT
Sun 21

Nicka Smith – Reverse Genealogy: Finding Cousins and Chasing the Living

March 21 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Wed 31

An Evening with Amy Whorf McGuiggan

March 31 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

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