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 is the fourth installment of the Jeffery sisters blog series about Caroline, Margaret, or Hannah. There will be one last installment in this series. Elizabeth was the youngest of the Jeffery sisters to survive to adulthood. She was born in…

  • Part three of a series I am writing about the Jeffery sisters. If you want to read more Part I & Part II are here. Hannah was almost a New Years baby, as she was born Dec. 30, 1832, in…

  • This is the second part in a series I am writing on the Jeffery sisters. When I first started researching the Jeffery family I had no idea how I would be drawn to Margaret’s story, it may be because I…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-