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 question started with “Did my grandmother attend school while she was living in Quebec City?” And it snowballed as it usually does when doing genealogy. I found a book on the BAnQ (National Library and Archives of Quebec) website…

  • The 1926 census in Canada covered the Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. I was very excited and counted down to its release. Other than my husband’s family my mother’s grandparents were living in Saskatchewan in 1926. We all know…

  • I keep finding new nuggets about my ancestors in newspapers. Lately I have been spending time researching my Harrop family and I thought I had done a thorough job searching but I am still finding new things. Here are four…

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

-Micheal J. Fox-