There are two new features in the latest updates on Ancestry.com that are super exciting to me!! The “Additional Parent Relationships” is the first new feature that I noticed. It was a very much needed addition to anybody who has an adopted family member in their tree. My Mom was adopted as I’ve mentioned in…
Month: October 2019
Wordless Wednesday : Ethnicity Estimate Updated from Ancestry
Apps Family, Carré Family, Family Treasures, Glider Pilot Regiment, Newitt Family, Remembering, Scotland, scrapbooking, World War 1, World War 2
Art, Peace and Hope
My paternal Grandmother, Margaret Hope Newitt was born in Helensburgh, Scotland. I wrote a bit about her growing up just north of there in Shandon in my previous post The Abandoned Mansion. She passed away in September of 1985 which unbelievably was 34 years ago. Despite having lost her so long ago I have lots…
Grandma Rocks
Scrapbooking your Family History
Scrapbooking your Family History I first was introduced to scrapbooking before I was married, over 20 years ago. Back then I mostly worked on scrapbook pages of our vacations or cats. Then we got married, which gave me some new material and now I have amassed a HUGE collections of scrapbooks of our children growing…
At Work with Dr.Thomas Lockwood Perry
I was able to find all of these pictures of my Grandfather thanks to a recent post by Gail Dever over at Genealogy a la Carte. She recently posted about UBC’s digitized collection. It had never even occurred to me to look on UBC’s website for family history before, but I clicked on the link…
Finding My Ancestors 