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2026-01-27 What's Your Plan?: When you encounter a brick wall in your research, do you keep trying the same methods that haven't worked well ... or do you come up with a plan for success? These two brief Ancestry Academy videos - Create a Plan and Break Down a Wall with Your Plan - help you develop foundational thinking that goes a long way towards solving genealogy problems. For more tips and techniques to solve brick walls in your research, see Goal 7 in Project 4: Discover. (See all tips.)
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