This week the prompt from Any Johnson Crow is Longevity for the 52 Ancestors challenge. This brought to mind the longevity of the Jordan family’s involvement with the Royal Canadian Artillery. In 1871, William Jordan was the first soldier to join the newly formed company, the first to serve sentry duty and the first to…
I recently joined a group on Facebook called GAACR (Genealogy Arts and Crafts Room) where there are regular posts about creating arts and crafts using our ‘stuff’. One item caught my eye, it was an old used envelope that was enlarged and framed. The original post had been found on Pinterest and shared with members of…
Who are the children in these tintype pictures?
The floodgates have opened for me in the last two days and all because of DNA. Yesterday it was all about my Norton family from Great Yarmouth, England. A person emailed me, yes you read that right, they contacted me! Our trees didn’t jive though because I had an error in mine. I had the…
Did your ancestor leave you a clue at the cemetery? Mine did. Sites like Find-A-Grave and Canadian Headstones are great tools to use in helping us research our family but a trip to your ancestors grave could lead to more discoveries. What you don’t see in the pictures posted on those sites is the headstones…
I am following the challenge issued by Amy Johnson Crow to write about 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks. A simple word, start, but start what? For me, it means starting my 2018 genealogy journey. I have decided that I will create a second genealogy book this year. The focus will be my maternal Stewart family.…
Well it’s the end of the year and I did it, I managed to get my 1st copy of the Jordan book off to be printed. After many years of researching my family tree, I wanted to share it in a way that would be interesting to my family. I decided book format would be the best…
It has been a busy genealogy year for me, I have had the opportunity to travel to conferences, visit cousins and various archives and museums in Canada. I have also made many new friends, connecting with people that have the same interest (PASSION) means there are people to celebrate my genealogy victories with! 2017 I…
An amazing email arrived in my inbox from my cousin Nancy. The title of her email was “Do you have this one??” In the email attachment was a photograph of my 2x great grandfather William Jordan. This picture is the same one in a booklet done by the Royal Canadian Artillery in the 1930s for their…
I wanted to share my incredible weekend with you. I am starting this tale by rewinding back to September 2001. My husband and I were getting away on a rare (maybe first time ever) trip just the two of us. I had it all planned out, stops across Ontario and then heading into Quebec, with…
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