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, and sharing the real papers that bring our ancestors back to life.

Tag: Prendergast

  • Uncovering My Family in the Québec Hôtel-Dieu Patient Registers

    Uncovering My Family in the Québec Hôtel-Dieu Patient Registers

    While performing a Full Text search on Family Search, I made a new discovery, which is rather rare for me. It was Registres journaliers des malades, 1689-1876 from the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, the oldest hospital in North America. I clicked in… and was quite thrilled with what I saw. I was able to find a…

  • Airport Fun

    Airport Fun

    I am sitting in the Edmonton airport waiting for the start of what in my mind is my ‘trip of a lifetime’. Although not purely a research trip, more of an exploratory journey, I will be doing some genealogy research. I plan to stay close or in the communities that I know my family has…

  • A Mother Gone Too Soon – Fearless Females

    A Mother Gone Too Soon – Fearless Females

    March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances?  Describe and how did this affect the family? Blog prompt from Lisa Alzo. When reading this prompt the first person that came into my mind is Anne Reddy.  Anne had her share of trials in her short…