I had a busy weekend, both with working and with a pre-Christmas family celebration, so I missed this past Saturday’s edition of Randy Seaver’s SNGF. Better late than never! Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. Here’s your chance to sit on Genea-Santa’s lap (virtually) and tell him… Continue reading Mid-week Genealogy Fun -Linda Stufflebean’s Updated “December Meme”
I was away visiting my mum and sister last week, and this week we’re experiencing a historic windstorm – the worst ever recorded to hit the Coast, though I imagine the indigenous people here have oral history that might contradict this assertion from the weather office. Either way, I am going to make this post… Continue reading Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun…Baby or small child photo(s)…
118 years ago today, my late grandmother, Rosanna May Ferdinando, was born, the second surviving child of Frederick Edward Ferdinando and Rose Ann May Lawley. I was fortunate to know her, spending several extended vacations in England during the 70s. One of her hobbies was collecting postcards – I sent her as many as I… Continue reading A life in pictures…
A few years ago, I came across a genealogy craft project called “ancestor cards” (nothing to do with the Tarot deck, in which there is an Ancestor card) or “genealogy trading cards”, and found instructions on how to create one in Adobe Photoshop Elements in a slide show by genealogist Laura Hedgecock, who some of… Continue reading Crafting my past….
My family isn’t one for a lot of crafts – mostly we go in for needlework of various sorts, though, I admit, my sister and I did used to make paper chains for the Christmas tree. You can see them here on the tree behind us – IIRC this was taken in 1973 (click image… Continue reading 52 Ancestors…of keepsakes and crafts…
My 52 Ancestors post for February hearkens back to one from last year, with the same theme … Family photo. I was lucky enough to receive a series of photos from my granddad’s camera that my uncle digitized a couple of years ago. Many of them were taken on family vacations in the 1930s to… Continue reading 52 Ancestors…Family photo…
My computer is still OOS so once again I’m posting from my tablet, without access to all my research, so for this week’s theme, winter, I’m going with some lovely winter pics from my childhood. My dad took these in the early 1970s in Ottawa. The ones with me in the red jacket were likely… Continue reading 52 Ancestors… Winter memories…
It should come as no surprise that in this week of Samhain / Halloween[1] that the 52 Ancestors theme is Frightening. I don’t really have any ghost stories and I’ve already written extensively about my family’s horrifying war-time experience. Instead, I’m going to return to a theme I mentioned in an earlier post, where I… Continue reading 52 Ancestors…Ghosts in the room, redux…
Sports is this week’s theme…and for this one I’m sticking close to home. My dad died 17 years ago last week. I don’t often write about him, but as he was athletic for much of his life, I thought I’d share some of my favourite photos of him. Here he is at about age 13,… Continue reading 52 Ancestors…Sporting memories of my dad…
Surprisingly enough, in a tree of more than 1300 people, I have yet to find anyone who actually shares my birthday. That is this week’s 52 Ancestors theme. The closest is a cousin once-removed, who was born the day before me. My late aunt, Betty[1], was born four days before me while my second great-uncle,… Continue reading 52 Ancestors…Early November events…
writing my past 