Week 15: Brick Wall

 Week 15: Brick Wall

I have several brick walls, but the one I’m going to address here is that of mysterious David Hamilton Cutlip, my 3rd great grandfather on the Spencer side. I have information on his adult life, but not of his origins.  What appears to be a newspaper article or family newsletter article (shared on Ancestry by cecil347) states that he was born on New Year’s day of 1827 in Virginia, which later broke off into West Virginia. The article goes on to state that David’s father is not known but he was adopted by George Cutlip when he married David’s mother Lucinda Jane Fowler. (At least that’s what I can make of the article.) George and Lucinda had many children, so I assume I’m looking for DNA 4th cousins who matches other known 3rd cousins on the Cutlip side, but don’t have Cutlip in their trees.  The trees need to go back at least 4 or 5 generations, and then, hopefully, there is a common ancestor among these matches.  Then I have to take into account that the trees might not be accurate and that they might be copied from one another with no documentation to back them up. So this would be a very arduous task that frankly, I am not up to at this time. But somewhere out there is a cluster of people who share some of my DNA and that I have not yet discovered. 

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