Tombstone Tuesday – Uncle George

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Lynda

This headstone may or may not be that of my great uncle and his widow. It has some suggestive connections, but I need to track down real evidence, and put to rest our long hunt for lost Uncle George. The clues we have are mostly family anecdotes: he married a woman named Annie, he went to Canada and was in the Windsor buy neurontin without prescription area, he died in Canada. More than one family member believed he had two children, and I have a photo of him and his wife with one of them as a baby. Now the quest continues with a search for birth, marriage and death records.

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Voices of the dead and gone

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Lynda

Voices are so evocative?. In a way, they tell us more than pictures. I’ve been listening to audio tapes from family events to organize them for digitizing (a great pastime while the blizzard blows outside). Many are interviews with my Aunt Edie, a great talker who delighted in family details and loved to share her stories. Some are noisy with dinner sounds from the annual reunions the family still where to buy gabapentin for dogs holds in England. I can easily pick out voices of dear relatives who have died. Just a snatch of conversation can bring images to mind of precious times I spent with them.

Got a pocket recorder handy for your family celebration this season? Audio recording can be easier and less intrusive than video. Don’t worry too much about background noise, just try to get close to the storytellers.

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Welcome to my past

Posted on November 16, 2010 by admin

As an amateur genealogist, I welcome the opportunity to share my discoveries as I travel back into my family’s past. This site is dedicated to my maternal line: my mother, who shares this passion, my grandmother, who gave up the home, family and friends she loved to follow her children across an ocean, and my great grandmother, whose courage and love is celebrated by her many descendants.

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