Genealogy… To My Dear Friend, Grave Yard Rabbit 7 May 2022 I received a letter at work, when I never had before; The writer knew me, but not I of he, but still he did implore: To: My Dear Friend, Grave…
Genealogy… Why Could They Not Be Original? 3 Nov 2020March 29, 2021 So, here I am, Day 34 of Self-Isolation, COVID-19 still running rampant and MiLady Rabbit has been contemplating my demise. (To date: unsuccessfully.). "Go play on your genealogy computer!" she…
Your Roots Are Showing DNA: The New (Genealogy) Age 8 Mar 2017April 2, 2018 I've been doing genealogy since I was nine years old — or for 45 years, or since 1972, but, whichever way you look at it, it is a very long…
Your Roots Are Showing You Need All the Help You Can Get 3 Mar 2016March 31, 2018 1972 <= yes, that's how long I've been doing genealogy. I started when I was 9-years-old. I've made mistakes. The important thing: I have learned from them! I have done four…
Rock of Ages Cement Ledgers in Alberta 15 Feb 2016March 31, 2018 In 2011 my gravestone article "Rock of Ages" was published in RELATIVELY SPEAKING V39:N1 by the Alberta Genealogical Society, and then again in the Fall of 2015 in CROSSROADS V10:N4…
Your Roots Are Showing I have a Photo Puzzle 31 Dec 2015March 31, 2018 BACK ROW (LEFT to RIGHT): Levi Goddard [01-006], Mary Johnston [08-xxx] & Ella McCort-Hammond [08-011] FRONT ROW: Malvina “Vimy” Atkinson [01-005], Minnie Johnston-McCort [08-002] & Evaline “Eva” Atkinson-Goddard [01-003] LET’S…
Your Roots Are Showing How I Am Related to: Linda Miller! (3C1R) 3 Jun 2015April 2, 2018 I think I started something ... maybe Yesterday, I supplied a chart of my connection to Floyd Reginald ROSS (2C2R), in response to a comment last month from NAME. Linda…
Your Roots Are Showing How Am I Related to: Floyd Reginald ROSS? (2C2R) 2 Jun 2015April 2, 2018 Last month, I got a comment from a distant cousin asking how I connect, so I tried the A.J.Jacobs approach first: Floyd Reginald ROSS > his mother, Ida Maud (MAW)…
Your Roots Are Showing They Were Left Behind 27 Apr 2015April 4, 2018 They left in 1833 from England to New York City en-route to York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario), with two bachelor sons and a pregnant daughter, her husband and six…
Your Roots Are Showing Then Along Came Rosemary … 16 Mar 2015April 18, 2018 Upon Friday last (Friday March 13th, 2015), #genchat was eager to discuss using a blog for genealogy, or as the term is: genea-blogging. Two very popular reasons to do this…
Your Roots Are Showing #52Ancestors (10, 13, 14): She was not his daughter 17 Feb 2014April 18, 2018 While researching the 1921 Canadian Census (on Ancestry.com) to update information on a relative for my weekly post for 52Ancestors, I stumbled upon a transcription for a slightly familiar family.…
BLOG PARTY… Fearless Females (27): Big Sister 27 Mar 2013March 8, 2022 March 2022 Women's History submission to Family Heart Blog Party I do not possess any documentation of their journey, nor proof of their lands and losses, but stories exist of…