Sometimes turning the page is exactly what research needs. I was at a dead end and didn’t know how to proceed. The famous brick wall. So I took a step back and thought of another way to reach my goal. I took out all the documents again and searched them (offline and online). I came …
During one of my searches I was very lucky that my client was able to provide me with a diary full of travel records. It was a great source of cultural insights of the late 19th century. The person that wrote the diary was wealthy enough to travel to a lot of countries, like Namibia …
Very often the best man is the best friend of the groom and so he is one of the persons that knows him best. I had a case where I had the speech of the best man for the person I was looking for. My client provided me with it and it was such a …
…. ‘and I think he was a member of a German shooting club’… This was a hint from one of my clients that helped me to find evidence of a person and to make sure that I was on the right way. I searched for shooting clubs in the area of the research and I …
For a search for family in Germany, I was given the name and two colour photographs of portraits. That wasn’t much, but I happened to come across a newspaper article and was surprised to see both portraits there, but not in colour. That was the proof that I was on the right track. After some …
