Identifying Photos Can Sometimes Take A Village
This photo was given to me by my cousin’s Donna and Shauna Thompson, which was part of their parents’ collection. One day last year, I met up with two of … Continue Reading →
Tag: Family History Hound
Join Me At Kathy’s Corner
Tomorrow, December 4th, at 5:00 Mountain, I’ll be joining Kathy Stone on Projectkin, along with a few friends, to talk about family postcard collections. This is a Substack event that … Continue Reading →
Full Text Search – Did FamilySearch Just Break My Brickwall?
Two days ago, I was so excited about something I found on FamilySearch that I created a video showing the process on my YouTube channel. The day started by looking … Continue Reading →
Genealogy Sunday – Telling A Lost Family Story
One of the lost family stories I found was on a trip to the Provincial Archives of Alberta. I looked at some research guides and discovered the “Returning Soldiers” file. … Continue Reading →
From Gravestone to Family Tree: Using AI to Uncover Hannah Prance’s Mayflower Heritage
If you’d like to watch the YouTube demo you can find that HERE. This week’s blog and video started a couple of evenings ago. I’d just sat down to watch … Continue Reading →
Growing My Channel Update
It’s Week Three of my trying to grow my YouTube channel. You can find this video HERE if you’d like to watch it. I discuss my stats regarding the number … Continue Reading →
Ancestry Only Took 9 Days – 1931 Canada Census
I know what I’ll be doing this weekend. I’ll be searching the 1931 Canada Census to find the members of my family that I haven’t had a chance to look … 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 →
Does Your Genealogy Have A Future?
When was the last time you wondered what would happen to your genealogy in the future? I think about this quite regularly. I wonder whether I’ll get all my organizing done before I leave this earth, and I wonder if anyone will be interested in it. More importantly, I don’t want my family to handle it one garbage bag at a time. Continue Reading →
New Year Resolutions – 2022
Did you make a resolution for 2022? Last year I realized that I was letting the pandemic get to me both mentally and physically. So I started walking several times … Continue Reading →