my genealogy life

Family stories are my buried treasure

Tracing ancestors in Canada, England, Scotland & Ireland

Sharing my love of digging through old documents, uncovering family stories, that bring our ancestors back to life.

  • This weekend at Rootstech MyHeritage introduced a new option to view your DNA matches. To get started (assuming you have already uploaded your DNA for FREE to their site) hover over the DNA tab at the top of the page…

  • It’s a simple item, an inkwell that was given to me a few years ago by my great uncle. He said it was an inkwell that had belonged to his grandfather Richard Lee Norton and he used it on his voyages.…

  • This week Amy Johnson Crow has us write about a Valentine. The article I found about my husband’s 2nd great grandfather fits the bill. Gottlieb Wiesner was born in Poland in 1858. It seems according to the news article from…

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“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”

-Micheal J. Fox-