Just one suggestion about brick wall individuals. Do what you can with them and then let it go for a bit. Then go back every so often and check to see what is available. Twice so far I have had that work for me. Just don't forget to go back to that individual. The first time after letting it go for a bit. Late at night I got a wild idea ...to go and look for this person under the last married name she had. This was my husband's mother (his parents divorced when he was still a baby) his paternal grandparents raised him for a few years, then his father had taken over and remarried several times. I still am not sure I have all the stepmothers involved. Finally late one night just before falling asleep and thinking about his mom, I got the impression to look under his mother's last known last name and the social security index. Sure enough there she was. I had my husband go down to SS and get her info from their records. Later I found another roadblock on this same line, mother's father I couldn't get any info. Then I heard from the family that the father listed was a step father. After some more patient waiting, suddenly out of now where (it would seem) the biological father's name showed up on Family Search. Now I just have to wait some more...maybe even attempt to contact some of the names that submitted his name, Frank Lansinger, born in Taylorsville Utah around 1893-1903. It will happen one day. The dead end names will eventually be found for everyone. Patience is definitely a virture in Family History.
MamaTeddyBear