March 7 — Share a favorite recipe from your mother or grandmother’s kitchen. Why is this dish your favorite? If you don’t have one that’s been passed down, describe a favorite holiday or other meal you shared with your family. Blog prompt from Lisa Alzo. I do not have any of either of my grandparents…
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A Genealogy Do-Over Ah-Ha Moment
I have been slugging away at the Genealogy Do-Over that is being hosted by Thomas MacEntee which is why I haven’t posted in a while. There are days when it seems things are progressing well, scanning documents that have been tucked away in binders for a very long time. These documents haven’t been properly analyzed,…
Back to Basics
I spent some time today going back to the basics. I have been telling myself for months that I need to review my research to move ahead. I sat down with the information from one of my ancestors that I know I still have many holes. William Robert Jordan was a military man and spent…
Names to Faces – Hodgson Family
Here are two photos of 2 people that are more than likely my husband’s ancestors. Both photos are stamped by the photographers whose location was Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. My husband’s family that was from PEI is the Hodgson family that lived in Tryon. Researching the photographers Geo. H. Cook and C. Lewis does give…
52 Ancestors: #10 Elizabeth (Young) Redmond
Murder is a horrible thing and when you encounter it in your family research it is VERY hard to know how to handle it. It is one thing to find a murder but to also discover a child that has murdered their parent, it is simply shocking. I did not know this story until I…
52 Ancestors: #9 Elizabeth (Harrop) Young
Elizabeth was the daughter of Anna Eliza Stickle and Lewis Harrop. She was born on February 20th, 1840 in New York, later moving with her parents to Islington, York Co., Ontario and then to Orangeville, Ontario. She married William Young in 1877 in England, the son of Robert and Mary Young. His first wife Isabella…
52 Ancestors – #8 Anna Eliza (Stickle) Harrop
Anna is my 2x great grandmother and passed away at the age of 93 in 1907 in Ontario, Canada. I don’t know much about her life, but I will share what I do know with the hopes of uncovering more information. Census records list Anna as being born in the United States in 1814, and…
52 Ancestors: #7 Grace Brown
I don’t have any photos of Grace Brown (Coffey) but I feel like she has such an interesting story, which is yet undiscovered. Grace was born in Ireland probably Dublin, to parents John Brown and Mary Boyd. Grace grew up in Kingston, Ontario with her 8 siblings. She married William Coffey on the 22 March…
52 Ancestors- #6 Caroline Louisa Norton
My paternal great-grandmother Caroline Norton was born in Quebec City in 1878 to parents Richard Lee Norton and Hannah Pozer Jeffery. I have always felt that Caroline was a force to be reckoned with. Reviewing old documents that I have of hers highlights her faith, community spirit, and independence as well as the love of…
Have you Tried Tree Lines?
I don’t know if you have given this site a try but it is very user friendly and you can create something simple or more complex. Have a look at what I created. https://www.treelines.com/story/639-my-family-history-journey/#page/cover
My Genealogy Life 