Category: Jordan
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Military Photographs WWI
Yesterday I received a message from a cousin who said he had scanned a few more pictures from his dad’s collection. I had the time to look at the pictures last night and was surprised to see some military photos. One picture was from a Musketry School in Montreal taken in 1917. I quickly suspected…
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Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery, Quebec
On a recent trip to Quebec City I made two trips to Mount Hermon Cemetery to pay my respects to relatives. There are various members of the Jordan and Norton families laid to rest there. A cool aspect was realizing I had a record at home of the purchase of the headstone for Richard Lee…
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Oodles of Information in Newspapers for Family History
I think newspapers may be my favorite item to research in my family tree. I love that is real time, I love that it can tell a bit of a story (especially when those are few and far between in my family), I love the detail given in some of the older newspapers but I…
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Longevity in the Canadian Military
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…
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The Jordan Book
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…
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Cousins Are THE Best
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…
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