February 15, 2025
Leslie Watson Tomlinson, MFA, CG.
“Proven Methods for Breaking Down Genealogical Brick Walls”
Leslie lives outside San Antonio, Texas, having landed there after her husband’s retirement from the Air Force, but has no direct ancestors from the state. Leslie’s ancestors are English and German on her mother’s side. They lived near Buffalo and Syracuse, New York. Her father’s Scots-Irish and English lines settled in Virginia, then migrated to Tennessee and southern Illinois.
She is the author of the book, “Breaking through Walls:
Proven methods and sources to break down genealogical brick walls”, published by the
San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society
https://www.txsaghs.org/store.php?sid=1
Breaking Through Walls: Derived from a series of articles appearing in the SAGHS newsletter, Leslie Watson Tomlinson, CG, expands upon the articles and provides new material and examples. Learn proven methods and sources to help you develop strategies for breaking through brick walls, build reliable cases for proving family relationships, identify sources most likely to answer your research questions, and discover new records, archives, and collections. Soft cover, 112 pages, indexed.
The book received an award in 2023 from the The TxSGS Awards Program.