The mail arrived yesterday and with it a package for me, I had ordered homestead records from Manitoba. The homestead files were for my husband’s great grandfather’s first wife’s two brothers Wilhelm and Leopold Ziebart. Edward Greber was married to Leokadia Ziebart in Russia and they immigrated to the United States and later to Canada with…
I have caught the birthplace pedigree bug. My chart shows my Canadian roots and the origins of Ireland, England and Scotland of my ancestors. It was a fun and easy to create and I showed it to my family this morning at brunch this morning. The chart was downloaded from Marian Pierre-Louis’ post Birthplace…
My dad was born Feb. 1, 1938 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. This was a huge event in my grandparents lives. They had married later in life, she was 29 and he was 31 on January 28, 1928 and the event took place at Taylor Presbyterian Church. It would a month short…
I like blogging but sometimes struggle with time. There are many things that keep me busy, #1 is my family, #2 is doing research/the do-over and 3 would be life in general. I blog when I can and I appreciate you stopping by to visit and see what I have been up to. I won’t…
Ernest Bevridge Norton – actually Ernest Thomas Norton Ernest signed up for WWI September 17th, 1915 stating he was born Aug 29, 1897, in Quebec City, and he was living at 1066 Henri Julien St. Montreal. Ernest’s occupation at that time was a Candymaker, previously he had been in the 8th Royal Rifles. Written on…
George Beveridge Norton was born in 1893 in Sherbrooke, Quebec to parents George Robertson Norton and Sarah Arnold. George was baptized in 1895 in St. Andrew’s Church, Quebec City. George grew up there with his four siblings but after their father died in 1912 the family made the move to Montreal settling on 1066 Henri-Julien…
John Brown Jordan was born August 12, 1888, to parents William and Agnes Brown in Kingston, Ontario. It is not surprising he heeded the call to serve in WWI as his father was a career soldier, as well as his older brother Samuel. John was not new to soldering, he already served nine years with…
You know when you first started doing your family tree and it seems that every time you hit the library you found something new? Well, that’s what my memory of first starting out researching my family tree was like. It probably was a bit more onerous than that, but it’s the discoveries that suck you…
I spent this weekend working on one of my goals for this year, getting my photographs organized. I did an initial sort yesterday, the first sort was by surname. I was able to get through all the photographs in my collection. Once sorted I put all the different photographs sorted by family surnames into their…
My connection to the Brock family was not an obvious one. It all started with a four-page letter written by a niece to her uncle in 1883. This letter must have been important as it was passed down through my family until I rediscovered it in 1993, one hundred and ten years after it was written.…
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