I'm beginning to think that brick wall was the great Doss Wall of Virginia - we have all hit it at some point - I also noticed that they all had the same names - there are several John's , several George's, a few Donald's. If your family was anything like mine, everything is private - no one wants to talk about anything and searching for your ancestry is snooping - I think there was some major messing around, and they tried to cover it up - the great brick wall.