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.

  • John Alexander Jeffery was the first-born son of Robert Jeffery & Elizabeth Tipper. They had him baptized at St. Gabriel’s Presbyterian church in Montreal on Dec. 7, 1818. There is little to be told about John, other than he died in…

  • Robert Jeffery lived until he was 69 years old, and during his lifetime he was married three times and had twenty children. Robert was one of three sons born to Robert Jeffery and Elizabeth Tipper, he was the only one…

  • This last entry in the Jeffery sisters series, it is more of a tribute page as these three girls had short lives. There were three young Jeffery girls that died very young and because of that there is not a…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-