What topic are you an expert on?

@exexec How about European family history in the 19th Century? Sort of hit a vacuum there.

@dancingtongue Yes, that can be tough. We found some good records in German towns that helped with our families. Church records in the UK and Holland helped. Scotland and Ireland have been a problem for me, partly because so many names were the same. Every McCall family had a Charles and a Francis, the names I need.

@exexec My roadblock is in Baden, which is German now, but more or less an international city at the time and a major debarkation point for emigration to America at the time. So I don't know if my great-grandparents were local or had migrated there for the sake of emigrating. Pretty sure they married there, know that he almost immediately left to sail from LeHavre to the U.S, to evade conscription into the Franco-Prussian War: she remained and worked a year as a maid before he sent enough money for her to sail from Bremen to join him.

@dancingtongue I have a few families from there, along with roadblocks: Seckinger, Waltz, Hebdig. (Spellings vary.)

@exexec Mine would be Mueller (Miller) and Kohl. I suspect Kohl, maiden name of my great-grandmother, had migrated from Eastern Europe with some Jewish origins, particularly since my DNA indicates traces of both. But no idea of when.

@dancingtongue I have the same Eastern European problem. I think my paternal line is Jewish and changed their name in America. DNA seems to indicate a connection. l Oh well, it's fun to try to solve the mysteries.