October is Family History Month, so this topic is the perfect prompt for Week # 40 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. Preservation, isn’t this what family history is all about? It’s our way of honouring and making sure that our ancestors are remembered. As a child when I visited my Grandparents, I could…
Week 37 of the 52 Ancestors Challenge When I think of our Canadian Province of Saskatchewan, I can’t help but think of farms, farming, and life on the farm. When I first found out that my husband’s Grandfather, Arthur Burke Wright was born in Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan in 1912 – I wondered what would have…
There have been three Generations of hard working Wright men who have owned service centres and/or mechanical garages here in Canada. Starting back in 1948 and the first generation, Burke Wright – who was my husband’s paternal Grandfather. He owned and operated (along with his wife Claudia) a SUPERTEST station in the village of Morpeth,…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge again this year. The writing prompt for this week is “Character” which is very similar to last year’s prompt “Quite the Character.” I decided to re-post what I had written last year because if there is one person in my family history that seems to have…
I have two very exciting things to share with you! First off is that AncestryDNA has a sale until Midnight on Monday, August 23rd, 2021. One little tip to save some money is to order this through Amazon.ca. The Ancestry DNA kit is the same price at $89.00 but shipping is FREE and the tax…
52 Ancestors 2021 – Week # 31 Over the years, I’ve read my maternal Grandmother’s memoirs so many times searching for clues. She wrote that she knew that her people came from a little Jewish village or shtetl just outside of Minsk. The question I had was how would we ever know which town? A…
I’d have to say that this week, what I’ve been thinking about is how KINDNESS is FREE. I’m participating in Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestor Challenge. The writing prompt for this week is FREE. I’ve truly have had the most amazing luck and so much kindness shown to me recently with my family history research and…
Week # 26 – Conflict (June 28-July 4) Almost exactly 89 years ago a young English student bore witness to rioting at the university she was attending in Frankfurt, Germany. She wrote into the editor of the Manchester Guardian to provide an eye-witness account of the day. Here is her letter to the editor. This…
Did you know that there are many groups on Facebook specifically for genealogy? The list is endless! Here are a few of my favourites that I have found to be invaluable in researching family history. The very first I can recommend is called UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOS OF THE BRITISH ISLES GROUP. This one is my absolute…
52 Ancestors Challenge (June 14-20) I have to admit that for the first time, I am not looking forward to Father’s Day. That’s because this Sunday will be my first Father’s Day without my Dad. Wow, that was a difficult sentence to write. My father passed away from Esophogeal Cancer just 4 short months…
