Brickwalls on my Father’s side final

This paper was my contribution to the San Diego Genealogical Society’s German Interest Group’s January program, 17 January 2024 and highlights the challenges facing me on my father’s side of my pedigree due to unknown parentage. Members of the group were very encouraging and offered a number of useful suggestions on how to crack the brick wall, including:

• The Leeds Method of Clustering DNA Matches (https://www.danaleeds.com/the-leeds-method/);
• Shared matches;
• Matrix clustering;
• Autoclusters; and
• Genetic Affairs (https://geneticaffairs.com/index.html).