Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week twenty-six. My great-great-great grandmother, Charlotte Williams, was born around 1825 in Ireland. Her parents were Robert Williams and Elizabeth Hamilton. I have not yet determined when exactly the family moved from […]
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52 Ancestors: #26 Charlotte (Willliams) Fee (abt 1825-1876)
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Fee, Williams on June 30, 2014 | 3 Comments »
52 Ancestors: #3 Margaret (Johnson) Fee
Posted in 52 Ancestors, Fee, Johnson on January 21, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Amy Johnson Crow, on her blog No Story Too Small, has challenged her fellow bloggers to post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This is week three. My great-grandmother Margaret (Johnson) Fee was born on September 2, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec to John and Alice Jane (Burton) Johnson. According to the information I have at this […]
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)Â & 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 […]