I had done everything on Ancestry to find my ancestor GGGGGrandfather. I could find him in the Revolutionary War, but just his name, no unit, length of service, nothing but his name. I even searched all the books at the N. J. State Library.

The source, itself of Revolutionary War data. I was very frustrated. Then came the breakthrough. I went on Heritagequestonline and my first inquiry of typing in a name got me 10 pages of documents which included 3 pages in my ancestor’s own words of his 5 years serving as a “Minuteman” signed by him and all of his children. Of course all these names then allowed me to go both forward and back to fill out my family tree. Do everything on every program you can.