This week, my brain has been on overdrive. As in, mind-exhausting working. Twisting, turning, stretching, crunching, typing, wondering, connecting, wondering, searching, finding, giving up kind of work. Can you relate? Here's my genealogical topic of choice for the week. You know, the one that's driving me crazy?!? Here's where it all starting. Going to just blame this one on my dear ol' Dad (he's the Hughes, after all!). He blessed me with a surprise bundle of historical digital photos of our Parrish, McMath, and Mercer families. One such piece of info he shared was an obituary for his mother's late sister, Christine Parrish (1927-1941). In the article was a mention of a "Betty Hughes" (she and Christine both died in a tragic car accident) and "Otis Hughes", Betty's brother (a passenger in the car). This got me thinking about, well, one of my biggest brick walls at the moment - my HUGHES family line beyond my great-gra...