Category: 2017
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Going Digital with my Genealogy Filing
I began researching my family tree when printing everything was the norm, but it is time for me to review my files and purge the excess. Today and for many days in the future I will be going through each of my genealogy files one at a time, assessing the information, digitizing, and hopefully throwing…
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When Grandma Became President of the Rebekahs
Today is the day of my grandmother Beatrice Mary Victoria Jordan’s birth in Quebec City. In wanting to mark the day I also realized it is also the 60th anniversary (one day late) of her becoming the International President of the Rebekahs at their Annual Session in Miami, Florida. Beatrice had worked hard in the…
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A Death by Drink or Not?
Today marks the 124th anniversary of the death of Cornelius McMahon my mother’s great-grandfather. Cornelius left Ireland with his parents and siblings when he was in his 20s, the family had lived through most of the famine but decided to leave. He settled in Ayton, Grey Co., Ontario, married and had seven children. I was…
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The Gazette, Montreal B/M/D – Oct 12, 1957
Here is another installment of birth, marriages, and deaths from newspapers kept by my grandparents, John & Beatrice Dever. Indexed names – The Gazette Oct 12, 1957 Births Arnold Cliffe Connolly Dyson Heath Hyde Lariviere Mathewson Phelan Ross Saunders Ward Whitman Engagements Callicott-Paul Deaths Axelrad Blair Brodie Cleary Clement Dalton Davey Dever Doyle Duplex Dupre Elsy…
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Should I Be More Focused in My Research?
Confession: I am not the most focused of researchers. There I have said it. I tend to research a family line that a get a shaky leaf on, find a document about or research in new record set that gets released or whatever strikes my fancy. I would call my research a little willy-nilly. I know,…
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Londonderry to Quebec on the Dr. Kane in 1862
My Diver / Dever family had a harrowing journey on the Doctor Kane from Londonderry, Ireland to Quebec in 1862. The ship they were sailing on set out in April of 1862 and struck ice leaving them stuck for an hour. This event was long before the Titanic but I am sure the passengers would…
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