or 'The ancestor who refuses to be found' Watercolour sketch by Mary Ogilvie Davison 1898. (I just love the donkey's expresion) Brick walls – we all have them, even experienced genealogists who have been researching their families for decades are likely to have come up against an immoveable obstacle that resolutely refuses to budge. Although research will naturally reach a point where the records run out, those that hover around the statutory registration and census periods are particularly annoying, as one way or another a solution, or at least a theory, should be possible to find. Not so with a 2 times great grandmother of my own, Ann Ross, who adamantly refuses to give up her ancestral history and is frankly making the family tree lo |