Brick Walls

When researching your family tree you will inevitably come to a person or persons where no matter how hard you try the information just dries up.  Genealogists and archivists and librarians and regular folk are diligently scanning and sorting as fast as possible but the amount of documentation out there that still needs to be sorted through and added to the interwebs is staggering I'm sure.  These stopping points in your search are called a "Brick Wall."  The name pretty much says it all.  Sometimes it only takes one little clue to break through that wall but often you will be stuck there for years.  The times when you are able to find a clue that leads you over that wall are like solving a great mystery and this my friends is why genealogy is so addictive!!