It’s Saturday night and time for some genealogy fun, courtesy of Randy Seaver’s Genea-musings website. Our mission tonight: 1) List your matrilineal line – your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you! 2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial [...]
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SNGF: My Genea-Bucket List
Posted in Ansted, Bohle, Burton, Coulman, Davey, Doan, Fee, Haight, Hunter, Johnson, Lusty, Salter, St. John, Summerville, Thomas, tagged SNGF on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Saturday Night and time for some Genealogy Fun courtesy of Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings. Our mission is to create a “Genea-Bucket List”. Knowing that a “Bucket List” is a wish list of things to do before death: 1) What is on your Genealogy Bucket List? What research locations do you want to visit? [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Posted in Baker, Dool, Fee, Humphreys, St. John, Summerville, Williams on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I thought, in honour of St. Patrick’s Day, I would post those lines of my family that hail – directly or indirectly – from Ireland. Christopher Summerville/Somerville (1822-1901) & Elizabeth Humphreys/Humphries (1820-1886) The Summervilles emigrated from around Enniskillin, Northern Ireland to Sharon, Ontario, Canada in 1846. They travelled with three of their children, one of whom [...]
Wordless Wednesday – Margaret Johnson, 1912
Posted in Fee, Johnson, tagged Photographs on January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Another photo of my great-grandmother, Margaret Johnson Fee. This was taken in 1912, the year before her marriage.
Moving Day, or the use of newspaper archives in family history
Posted in Ansted, Fee, tagged Newspapers on January 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a librarian – and as one who specializes in media-tracking and news monitoring – I am well aware of the value of newspapers as sources of information both past and present. Over the last couple of weeks I have been using online newspapers to fill in gaps in my knowledge about ancestors and to enhance my understanding of the [...]
Wordless Wednesday – Niagara Falls 1912
Posted in Fee, Johnson, tagged Photographs on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My great-grandmother, Margaret (Johnson) Fee, at Niagara Falls in 1912.
John Everett Fee (1878-1967)
Posted in Fee, tagged Baptism record, Birth certificate, Census data, City directories, Marriage certificate, Photographs on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My great-grandfather John Everett Fee was born to John and Henrietta (Salter) Fee on March 1, 1878 and baptized in the Wesley Congregation Church in Montreal that October: John Everett, son of John Fee of Montreal, machinist, and Henrietta Salter, his wife, born on the first day of March eighteen hundred and seventy eight, was [...]
