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.

  • Can DNA break down my long-standing brick wall? Good question, and one of the reasons I started doing DNA testing. Last night I found new information that may yet hammer down another wall and it was uncovered due to DNA. I…

  • I also found this video on You Tube of the future Queen’s 1951 visit to Canada. Maybe I can find a video of when she was in Drummondville and spot my father and his parents in the crowd! These pictures…

  • After learning about the focus by Find My Past on Catholic records while watching the live-stream at RootsTech, I started to mentally calculate who in my family I may find in these new records. One by one I was eliminating people that this…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-