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 Brown Jordan was born August 12, 1888, to parents William and Agnes Brown in Kingston, Ontario. It is not surprising he heeded the call to serve in WWI as his father was a career soldier, as well as his…

  • You know when you first started doing your family tree and it seems that every time you hit the library you found something new? Well, that’s what my memory of first starting out researching my family tree was like. It…

  • I spent this weekend working on one of my goals for this year, getting my photographs organized. I did an initial sort yesterday, the first sort was by surname. I was able to get through all the photographs in my…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-