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.

  • Genealogy Photo A Day Our genealogy photographs often sit on our hard drives or in stacks of albums in our homes, Instagramming them is a great way to put them to use. The person behind this idea is Melissa Dickerson and…

  • Ontario Genealogical Society’s 2017 Conference that will be held in Ottawa  June 15-18, has added an aptly named Ancestry Day to take place on June 19th. The Conference already has a full weekend of genealogy learning starting with their excursions on Thursday…

  • Alberta has a bad rap for genealogical records, but it isn’t the black hole of the West as most people think. Well maybe isn’t as easy as its counterparts like Saskatchewan Vital Records or Manitoba but the records are there. Vital…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-