Focus your research.

Problem: Where should I look when I reach a dead end?

Genelines helps by showing who was alive when a particular historical event occurred, allowing the researcher to focus on records specific to that event, in this case the American Revolution. Note that the husband, Simeon Freeman, died during the Revolutionary War. Was he a patriot? Did his spouse receive a military pension?

It is also clear from this chart that some children were probably of military age. Would they be found in military muster rolls? This researcher turned to privateer bounty records and discovered some fascinating clues of privateering raids and local militia service that involved this family and neighbors on both sides of the border.