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.

  • The mail arrived yesterday and with it a package for me, I had ordered homestead records from Manitoba. The homestead files were for my husband’s great grandfather’s first wife’s two brothers Wilhelm and Leopold Ziebart. Edward Greber was married to…

  • I have caught the birthplace pedigree bug. My chart shows my Canadian roots and the origins of Ireland, England and Scotland of my ancestors. It was a fun and easy to create and I showed it to my family this…

  • My dad was born Feb. 1, 1938 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. This was a huge event in my grandparents lives. They had married later in life, she was 29 and he was 31 on January 28,…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-