Research Project: A Clean Slate

Sometimes when you have done all you know to do, it is time to regroup and begin again. I am a big advocate of after having worked on a particular ancestor for a while, putting them away for a spell and trying again at a later date.
For years I have been trying to locate information on my husbands 4th Great Grandfather: Abraham TINKER Sr.
There is a lot of controversy and mystery surrounding this individual. At times during the course of my research I felt as though I was batting my head against a brick wall.
It has been some time since I have really done any major work on the TINKER genealogy in general due to that fact. I recently decided to pick up where I left off and use a new approach.
If you have been here before you may notice that I have made some recent changes to the blog, once again. I have added a page at the top entitled: Abraham Sr Tinker. I am going to be posting some content there about my research endeavors to undercover the truth about Grandfather Abraham. Those last two words there sort of remind me of the old Sunday School song:
Father Abraham, had many sons, many sons had Father Abraham....Just how many sons did Abraham Tinker have? What were there names? Is there some document somewhere that tells us those facts? Those are some questions that I have been asking myself as of lately and I hope to find the answers to them sooner, rather than later.
In order to do that I am going to wipe his name clean in my database and start from scratch with him once again. Carefully noting and evaluating each document that I can find that relates to him. I am going to be examine message board content, correspondence with known relatives and other Tinker family researchers. I will leave no stone unturned. DNA is beginning to tell us a story about this gentleman, and I will share some of what I have found in the near future on his page. Stay tuned and if you have any stories to share about this ancestor, I would love the hear them!