Here we are already into April. Already we’re at Week # 14 of the 52 Ancestors Challenge. This will be my 5th post out of a possible 14. Yikes, what can I say? The year seems to be flying by very quickly. Speaking of April, as many of you are well aware on April 1st…
Favourite Find: Week # 2 (2022) I would like to share with you my most recent favourite discovery that I’ve found. I struggle with using the word favourite in this post because this photograph is representative of something so dark and sad, but also, this photo is something that I have been searching for and…
This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is Shock. Something that I find a little spooky and a bit of a shock is that so far in my research I have found three Grandparents that seem to have died on October 31st!! How spooky is that?! The first that I want to include is Henry Edmund Samuel…
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 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…
One of the biggest brick walls in my family tree stands at the roots of my maternal Grandmother’s side of the family. The Lipman/Lippman(s) Most of the information that I have about the Lippman family stems from a book of memories that my Grandmother thankfully wrote down many years ago. I’m so grateful for her…
I’m participating in the 52 Ancestors Challenge for 2021, this past week’s (Feb. 15-21) theme is Unusual Source. As Amy Johnson Crow describes “Not all of our genealogy discoveries come in the “regular” sources like vital records and the census. What is a discovery that you’ve made using an unusual source? “ For me, one of…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. The writing prompt for this week is On The Map. Every once in a while Ancestry releases updated Ethnicity Results for our DNA tests. I thought that was quite fitting. In case you are thinking, wait a second…how is it possible that my DNA could change?!…
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…
Finding My Ancestors 