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.


  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03XQi5toQg This is my way of sharing an autograph book that belonged to my great great grandmother’s sister Elizabeth Norton. Elizabeth was born in 1862 in Quebec City to parents Richard Lee Norton and Hannah Pozer Jeffrey. Elizabeth spent her…

  • I feel like I am pretty Irish. Researching back through my tree I have spent a lot of it stuck in Ireland. My great grandparents countries or origin are: Caroline Norton – b. Canada Peter Jordan – b. Canada Rachel…

  • Murder is a horrible thing and when you encounter it in your family research it is VERY hard to know how to handle it. It is one thing to find a murder but to also discover a child that has…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-