Connecting Generations: Military History in Family Research

(image created with ChatGPT with the prompt: create a graphic of someone looking at Canadian WWI records) It’s been a great week for me. The first thing that happened was … Continue Reading →

Creating My Family History Book

This is the first page of my family history book. It’s a work in progress, and I’m adding pages as I have time or if I have a particular story … Continue Reading →

Cooking With Family – Update

These were some of my absolute favorite cookies growing up. As an adult, I know they are a red-light food for me (Weight Watcher term). They are easy to make … Continue Reading →

Have You Helped Someone With Their Genealogy?

Things have been quiet on the blog because I’ve been fighting some allergies, but let’s change that. Please comment below about your experiences. I do genealogy and DNA work for … Continue Reading →

Did You Go On A Family Vacation?

Growing up, my family vacation was spent visiting Osoyoos, British Columbia, to see my father’s cousins, the Pendergrafts. Ted and Bea Pendergraft had moved to British Columbia around 1934. Those … Continue Reading →

Cooking With Family – Update

I’m continuing with my effort to tidy up the stuff I have of my parents, and that includes my mom’s recipe collection. Once or twice a week, I cook one of my mom’s recipes, and then I can take photos and add them to my FOREVER recipe book. It’s a template that I can add to, and it’s stored in my projects Continue Reading →

Asking For A Friend

I spend a lot of time working on genealogy and DNA, and organizing my genealogy and photos, so that gives me time to think about things. I know I probably … Continue Reading →

Cooking With Family – I’m Creating A Cookbook

In my efforts to downsize and organize the things I received from my parents, I came across my mom’s recipes. I’ve always wanted to do something with them, especially the … Continue Reading →

The Day Tina Died

Sometimes it’s pretty astonishing how someone you’ve never met can impact your life. Yesterday, May 24, 2023, the world learned that the iconic singer; Tina Turner died at 81, and it felt so surreal because I’d just been thinking about her a couple of days ago and about a trip, I’d gone on with my mom. Continue Reading →

What’s Old & What’s New At Ancestry?

When I started writing this blog, I realized that “NEW” is relative. Meaning new could be as of today, or if you haven’t been to the Ancestry site for a … Continue Reading →