This month I’ll be looking at some readers’ questions. It’s important to remember that DNA isn’t a magic bullet. There is still a great deal of work involved in solving your mysteries, and even DNA has its limitations. All of the readers have been working hard to solve their brick wall, but will DNA give them vital clues?
SEEKING PROOF OF A GRANDFATHER ANN WRITES:
Dear Karen,
Can you please help me find out if my grandfather is the man named on my mother’s birth certificate? My grandmother was born Ireland in 1890 but emigrated to Canada and married Fred Arnolt in Hamilton, Ontario in February 1911. In June 1911 the couple had a son, Thomas, who I know died in 1912. However, on the 1911 Census (taken on the 16th and 17th June) my grandmother was living with her sister in Hamilton, and I can’t find her husband or son anywhere.
My mother, Lily, was born in Port Colborne, Ontario in November 1912 and her birth certificate names Will Edsall as the father. My grandmother then married a Charles Waters in Port Colborne in May 1913.
I have done a lot of research trying to find Will Edsall but am
