Southwest USA Genealogy & History

I am sure that everyone of you have it a genealogy brick wall.  If you love to research your family tree… then you know what a brick wall is.  We all have them. 

I am not talking about the search for an individual that you don't know who they are. I am talking about those brick walls you hit, when you think you have searched everywhere and you just can't find anything that proves this individual existed.  

I know that my GGrandfather was Benjamin Franklin Trigg and I am pretty sure that he was born in Hickman, Kentucky.  I only have his death certificate as my source document, so I am going to have to find other source documents to prove is birth place.

On the Ben Trigg death certificate it lists his father as James Trigg.  This is the only reference I have to his father.  We have found pleanty of James Triggs in Kentucky during the 1852 time range, but we only find one that lived in Hickman, Kentucky. 

There is a huge book written several years ago - Trigg Family History by James Knox Trigg - and I have combed that book looking for a hint to my family tree.  Benjamin Franklin Trigg is listed in this book, only because my mother sent the author the information.  The author couldn't place our family into any of his research.  Our tree is probably in this book, it is just hiding really well.

This is  our Trigg Family Brick Wall.  

I am going to post my research and findings in a series of articles here… so get on the mailing list, so you can follow me as I try to break through my brick wall.

I love to read about how others broke their brickwall down, because it often gives me hints or clues to try in my own research.  

• The James Trigg we have found in Census would have been to old to have served in the Civil War. 
• Our Benjamin Franklin Trigg would have been to young to have served in the Civil War.
• I am researching a boy - we think is a son - that would have been the right age to have served in the Civil War.

Family Tree Magazine recently published a list of Civil War research sites.  So I am off to dig deeper into this wealth of information:

Family Tree Magazine Civil War Research 

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