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…
2022 A2Z Challenge… A2Z 2022: Oral Stories 7 Mar 2022March 30, 2023 Oral Stories and Hand-Me-Downs Are they goldmines for genealogists, or just repetitive old rumours, and juicy, embellished gossip, handed down from generation to generation? It was the early 1800s, in…
Genealogy… Voices of Genealogy 2 Apr 2021March 13, 2022 The Hidden Branch are young genealogists, who began interviewing older genealogy friends to learn what it was like researching when they were young. The responses were many and answers have…
Genealogy… BOOK REVIEW: Planning A Future 30 May 2019March 7, 2021 If you are planning on spending your present (and perhaps some of your future) working in the past with the many aspects of genealogy and family history, you need this…
BLOG PARTY A Gift of Mother’s Love 2 May 2018March 8, 2022 © originally written 2001 (private) - unpublished The six children of Victoria, five daughters and a son; Were kept close to her heart that favoured no certain one -- Over…
BLOG PARTY Stolen: One Garden Trowel 18 Apr 2018March 8, 2022 It was Autumn. 1972. Mama Rabbit was preparing dinner, when I blustered through the door bringing in a swirl of fallen leaves and discarded candy wrappers. We found Papa John…
Your Roots Are Showing Junior’s 7 Patriots, 1: Daniel SKINNER 2 Apr 2018April 2, 2018 A while ago, I mentioned that I would help my son, Junior, trace his late grandmother's side of the family - not mine. When he was small, he had helped…
Genealogy… You Can Draw a Memory 31 May 2016April 30, 2018 Road Trip = Adventure I was a single, military parent with three (very hyper) little boys, aged nine, seven and four. It was too easy getting them involved in my…
Genealogy… #52Ancestors (3) Floyd Reginald ROSS WWII [2C2R] 16 Jan 2016May 2, 2018 FLOYD REGINALD ROSS, born 17APR1921 to Dr. John Arthur ROSS, M.D. (1885-1959) and the former IDA MAUD MAW (1884-1973) in Antler, Saskatchewan, was the fifth of ten children (6 boys, 4…
Your Roots Are Showing Can YOU Be More? #12FamilyFinds 7 Sep 2015May 1, 2018 Hullo, my name is Rabbit .. And I'm a genealogist! These simple words mean so many different things to an equally different group of people. To the misinformed, you are…
Your Roots Are Showing Have You Met Mary Ann? #12FamilyFinds 4 Jun 2015April 2, 2018 My memory is failing, have I introduced you to Mary Ann KELLAM? We met in Barrie, Ontario at The ATKINSON Family Reunion in 1982. (Sort of.). It was at that…
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 The Next Generation of The Family (Part One) 27 Apr 2015April 4, 2018 These charts are listed in birth order. These charts are the families of the Children of Thomas ATKINSON and Bethia (KIDD), my third Great Grandparents Eldest son, Robert (2x Great…
Your Roots Are Showing 3x Great Grand Parents: (KIDD) ATKINSON 27 Apr 2015April 18, 2018 I am descended from (3) Thomas II I have information on most of the family's history -- land records, WWI/ CEF records, obituaries and photos of gravestones. SLR®
Your Roots Are Showing By Request: What are “The Advil Notes?” 18 Jan 2015April 16, 2018 Friday last (16JA2015) was #genchat and questions flew about faster than most participants could type. One discussion was Thomas MacEntee's Genealogy Do-Over as one way to re-organize one's research. Another question…
FGS2015 Salt Lake City… A Visit to FHL in SLC is a MUST! #FGS2015 18 Jan 2015January 29, 2019 The December subjects for FGS2015 Ambassadors involved previous visits, or the plans for a potential visit. (Of course, I chose the latter having never been out that way.). If (perhaps…
Your Roots Are Showing If You Are a HOLCOMB, We Are Related, Dearie! 18 Jan 2015March 29, 2021 I've been blogging genealogy and gravestones for so long, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only nut researching my family tree. Last Saturday, you can imagine my…
Your Roots Are Showing They Tried a Do Over #52Ancestors2015 (1) Starting Fresh 5 Jan 2015March 8, 2022 The first installment of #52Ancestors 2015 Edition is called “Starting Fresh,” and it was my earliest ancestors that tried to do just that! John ATKINSON and his wife, the former…
Genealogy… Are We Related? A Tale of 3 Johns 27 Oct 2014March 7, 2021 As I review the working title, it sounds like three clients from a Red Light District, doesn't it? I just wanted a short title that would be memorable and I…