While doing your research have you come up empty handed? Have you tried contacting the historical society where your ancestor lived? Historical societies have a wealth of information. They collect photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, letters, newspaper articles. You never know what you might find. I'm involved with my local society. For the longest time we collected strictly information about the people and places in the county, however, recently we began adding genealogy books dealing with other localities, here and abroad.
