I don’t know why this post has been so difficult for me. I think it’s likely because when I think of Mother’s Day I think about my own Mom of course. Only I haven’t seen her in so, so long. What year are we in now? Gosh 2021. I haven’t seen her this year at…
It’s an impossible task to pick a favourite photo when you are a Mom, a scrapbooker and a family history nut. These are a few of my favourites that I never thought I would ever see. Somehow I find that seeing pictures of people who I have never met brings them closer to me. That’s…
2021 brings with it another whole year of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. Here we are again back at the beginning in Week # 1 and very fittingly, the first writing prompt is Beginnings. “Oh, let’s go back to the start…” I’ve already gone over the story of how I began to be interested…
I found this quote just on a Google search, so I’m not sure who to attribute it to, but it sure fits. This week’s writing prompt is a perfect one for my family. When I think about the above quote, I feel like I am surrounded by chosen family. Adoption The first thing chosen family…
This week for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge the writing prompt is The Old Country. When I looked up the definition it states the native country of a person who has gone to live abroad. My Family Now for myself, I have lived in Canada my entire life, but I suppose the Old Country…
I’m really finding this 52 Week Challenge to be just that, a challenge. These weekly prompts have really pushed me to look into my research deeper and for that I am grateful. This week’s writing prompt is DISASTER. This will require some brainstorming… In the dictionary the definition of disaster is a sudden event, such as…
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…
Meet Claire and Adell. This week I will be for honouring these two women who lived 3,700 km away from each other back in 1949. They never met. Coincidentally both women were born in the month of April and both passed away in the month of September. One of these ladies I affectionately called Grammie…
A while back I sent in my DNA to be tested through Ancestry. Below are my Ethnicity Estimate results. I was a little disappointed that there really wasn’t anything surprising to me, as I know that my Dad’s family is all from Great Britain. I don’t know what I was hoping for… a little more…
Finding My Ancestors 