I seem to have missed posting here for the entire month of February, but I have a honest excuse.

My sweetie’s Grama passed away last month – she had wanted to come to our beautiful home to die and so we brought her here and the family gathered round and gave her a beautiful sendoff.

Just last year Grama, along with my sweetie Damian, him mom, his auntie, and his uncle, all took a trip to Germany/Austria/Hungary to visit the land of their ancestors.  It sounded like a marvelous trip and everyone feels so lucky that they were able to do the trip when they did with Grama.

And so as life begins to flow normally again, as much as it can when someone passes away, I find myself wanting to know more about my own ancestors.  I’ve decided to continue the hunt that my Dad started a while back, and thank you Daddy for supplying some of the info I’ll need to get started.  He’s already gotten as far as who came to Canada and when, so now I’ll have to cross the waters to Scotland and carry on!

If anyone has any tips or suggestions on anything that would assist me in my search I’d love to hear them…