New Beginnings
Today marks 1 week since I made the move to Port Hope, a tranquil town on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Port Hope has the distinction...
Double Cousins?
In the decades that I've been documenting my family tree, I have discovered several people that are what I call "double cousins". What do...
GENEALOGY PET PEEVES
Tracing your family roots can be a fun and personally fulfilling adventure, but it can also be a journey littered with road blocks,...
More Discoveries
Between shovelling snow, packing up my house and looking for a new career, I've somehow managed to do some work on my family tree. In the...
Verifying Data
Reviewing historical data is a significant part of researching your family history. In the not so distant past, this involved finding and...
1000's of DNA Matches: Now What?
Several years ago I took my first DNA test through Ancestry.com. The test was a mitochondrial test which means that it took both my...
Contacting Distant Relatives
2022 marks the 20th year that I have been researching my family's history. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was going through a box...
Famous Cousins
I have been hosting my family tree with Ancestry.com and on this personal website now for quite some time, yet I often wonder if anyone...
Follow The Clues!
Tracking your family history beyond your 2 or 3 times great-grandparents can be a daunting task, especially if you want to include...
Killers In The Family
Everyone has skeleton's in their family tree, and my family is no exception. In fact, I have a LOT of nasty ancestors in my paternal...
