Flummoxed - Town of Origin (1)

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Note: This page is part of the Flummoxed series and made to help those who haven't found family history information in the usual places. More information about searching the usual places is on the Flummoxed - Extending Family Lines page.

You have decided that you have sufficient unique, identifying information about an ancestor coming from a foreign country and would recognized that person if they appeared in an extracted record. Also, being that you're here, we assume that you have already searched all the usual places (see the above note).

Suggestions

Look Again

Ultimately the simplest and most direct solution is to find one more record in the country where your ancestor settled that identifies the city or town of origin.

Find and Follow Proxies

Consider the possibility that someone else might be easier to track to the very same town of origin. People to identify and research in addition to your own ancestor might be:

• Known relatives.
• Close associates at work, church, etc.
• Other persons with the exact same rare surname.
• Other people that came on the same ship.

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Post information about the relative you are seeking on one of the Internet based family history message boards or upload a GEDCOM of what you have to a public family history repository.