Author Eric J. Ostroff, Historical Novelist and Genealogist

YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots Hit a Genealogy Brick Wall? Here's What To Do Instead

Whether you’re doing family history research, building your family tree, navigating genealogy for beginners, or separating genealogy myths and family tree stories from fact, this episode tackles one of the biggest challenges: genealogy brick walls.

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YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots Affinity, Consanguinity, Endogamy, and Inbreeding: What's the Difference?

This video provides a high-level, simple explanation as a follow-up to a previous review on endogamy, focusing on how it impacts your family history research.

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#genealogy #dna #dnatesting

Tnak you so much!

I am happy to announce that I have finished writing Book 1 of the Metacom Saga!

#booksky #BookTok #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writer #amwriting #Histfic #HistoricalFiction #MetacomSaga

I am happy to announce that I have finished writing Book 1 of the Metacom Saga!

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writer #amwriting #Histfic #HistoricalFiction #MetacomSaga

Photograph of 4 women, 3 men taken in 1894. All the siblings are between their 40s and 60s. The women are wearing black dresses, the men suites.

Children of John Hankins and Susan Thomas. Photo taken in 1894 in Binghamton, Broome County, New York

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#Photography #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #NewYork

How To Know When To “Give Up” On a Genealogy Brick Wall You know the feeling.

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#genealogy #genealogyresearch #genealogytips #genealogybrickwalls

Affinity, Consanguinity, Endogamy, and Inbreeding in Genealogy Explained If you’ve spent any amount of time tracing your family tree, you probably began with a simple expectation: each generation would branch outward like a perfectly shaped oak—two parents, four grandparen...

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#genealogy #genealogyresearch #dnatesting, #affinity, #cosanguinity #endogamy #inbreeding

Hello, my friends! I am working on my February schedule for video topics, and apart from some key topics that I wish to cover, I want to include some viewer requests.

#genealogy #youtube #suggestions

YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots Is Endogamy Confusing Your DNA Results?

I'm responding to a request by one of my Twitter/X followers who asked if I could do a quick review on genetic endogamy.

#genealogy #genealogyresearch #dna #dnatesting #endogamy

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It should be hitting the market this Spring

YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots 4 Steps to Finding Your Lost Sailor Ancestor

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Woke up at 5:00 am today and finished chapters 38 and 39.

#WIP #HistoricalFiction #WritingCommunity #BookSky #MetacomSaga

The Woman Who Vanished: Solving a 1920s Upstate New York Genealogy Mystery A Step-by-Step Guide to Tackling Disappearances, Missing Women, and Orphaned Children in Family Trees

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#genealogy #genealogytips #genealogyresearch #lostancestors #genealogybrickwalls

YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots The Genealogy Puzzle Nobody Expects to Hit

This video discusses the common frustration of hitting a "brick wall genealogy" in genealogy research when encountering ancestors who seem to have vanished from the records.

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#genealogy #genealogytips #lostancestors #genealogyresearch

Follow the Ship, Not the Man: The Secret to Finding Lost Sailors in Genealogy If you’ve ever tried to trace a seafaring ancestor, you already know the frustration.

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#genealogy #genealogytips #genealogyresearch #history #unsolvedmystery #unsolvedmysteries

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#genealogy #history #newenglandhistory #familyhistory

YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots Your Ancestor Might Have Taken This Route: New England's Forgotten Path

We explore New England’s Forgotten Migration Route, the fall of Maugerville, and the movement of families into what many called America’s 14th Colony—a region often considered America’s lost colony.

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#genealogy #genealogytips #historydocumentary #history

YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots New England's Forgotten Migration Route: The Samuel Bridges Case Part 2

We explore New England’s Forgotten Migration Route, the fall of Maugerville, and the movement of families into what many called America’s 14th Colony—a region often considered America’s lost colony.

youtu.be/0lm9U-IwwW4

#genealogy #genealogytips #historydocumentary #history

How One Puritan Town Conquered a Canadian River Tracing the Forgotten Journey from Rowley, Massachusetts to Maugerville, New Brunswick

This entry continues our case study on Samuel Bridges of 18th-century Rowley, Massachusetts, revealing how regional migration and overlooked historical events shaped his origin story.

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#genealogy #losthistory #history #familyhistory #Writingcommunity #booksky

Labeled as the war you never knew, the #MetacomSaga is the true story of the events surrounding King Philip’s War. Fifty years after the landing at Plymouth Rock, this tragic conflict is considered one of the bloodiest in American history. #WritingCommunity #WIP #amwriting

Labeled as the war you never knew, the #MetacomSaga is the true story of the events surrounding King Philip’s War. Fifty years after the landing at Plymouth Rock, this tragic conflict is considered one of the bloodiest in American history. #WritingCommunity #WIP #amwriting

Labeled as the war you never knew, the #MetacomSaga is the true story of the events surrounding King Philip’s War. Fifty years after the landing at Plymouth Rock, this tragic conflict is considered one of the bloodiest in American history. #WritingCommunity #WIP #amwriting

Labeled as the war you never knew, the #MetacomSaga is the true story of the events surrounding King Philip’s War. Fifty years after the landing at Plymouth Rock, this tragic conflict is considered one of the bloodiest in American history. #WritingCommunity #WIP #amwriting

Labeled as the war you never knew, the #MetacomSaga is the true story of the events surrounding King Philip’s War. Fifty years after the landing at Plymouth Rock, this tragic conflict is considered one of the bloodiest in American history. #WritingCommunity #WIP #amwriting

Labeled as the war you never knew, the #MetacomSaga is the true story of the events surrounding King Philip’s War. Fifty years after the landing at Plymouth Rock, this tragic conflict is considered one of the bloodiest in American history. #WritingCommunity #WIP #amwriting

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YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots Stuck on an Ancestor? This EASY Method Gets You Unstuck

This video discusses the common frustration of hitting a "brick wall genealogy" when researching family history and encountering ancestors who seem to have vanished from records.
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#genealogy #GenealogyResearch #genealogytips

A Step-By-Step Guide to Preventing Genealogy Brick Walls If you’ve ever found yourself hunched over your laptop at midnight, staring at the same census record for the tenth time and hoping a new clue will magically appear, you know the sinking feeling of a ...

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YouTube video by Trace Your New England Roots 200 Years of Migration Mapped in Minutes, Not Months

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