I married a man who thought he would be a bachelor forever but I came along and that was the end of him being a bachelor. We married and had a wonderful son. The reason I am telling you this is because it is my son who introduced me to genealogy.
When he was in grade eleven he had an assignment to do some genealogy. Well when he came home and showed me what he had found on his father's side, well that sure had me curious. I thought I sure would love to do my side of the family. One day my son said to me " Mom, if you are interested , you can go to the genealogy center ,it is free and someone will help you if you need it.
Then I decided I am going to go check it out, well that was back in 1976 and I am still into genealogy.
I met so many nice people along the way, and I have tried to help as many with their genealogy as I could.
I looked in old newspapers, census, parish records, books, microfilms, and when I would find something on my ancestors it was just as if I had struck a goldmine. I remember once I was looking for my mother in law's parents. I was looking for their marriage and some of the relatives told me that they had never married, well I searched until I did find their marriage, and they were married elsewhere.
Something good also has happened since I began my genealogy that I would love to share with you.
One day I was looking in land grants in Gallagher Ridge because my parents had lived there before I was born .While I was looking Mister Regis Brun noticed that I was in land grants and in Gallagher Ridge and he asked me what I was searching for. I told him I was looking for information on my parents.
He said to me "we have an old movie of Gallagher Ridge and we don't know who the people are .Would you like to look at it? I said ok, and he and Ronnie Gilles LeBlanc showed me the film, it was old, there was an old 1936 ford and the highway was not paved, there were old houses, and poor people on the film, I saw this lady and she reminded me of my mother, and then there was this house , it looked a bit better than the rest ,it was covered in tar paper , and looking in the window was this cow. There was also an old lady in the photo and she looked very familiar. I said to Regis and Ronnie, I bet my mother would know some of these people. They replied can you bring her in to see? I said ok. So I went over to see my mother and told her about the film, she said the old lady could be a Mrs Hebert or a Mrs Chase. Mom continued to say, when we lived there we had a cow, it used to come to our bedroom every day and she said you would think it was saying Edmoooooooooooond , and my father would say she is calling me it is time to get up. My father's name was Edmond.
Anyway Ronnie Gilles and I went to pick up my mother and we showed her the film, well the lady I said thought was my mom, was my mom, she was barely 17 years, my father was on the photo he was 26 years old, the old lady was my father's grandmother. And the year of the film was around 1936 or 1937. So Ronnie had a copy of the film made for me and I copied it and gave a CD to all my family as a Christmas gift.....
You never know what you will find when you are into Genealogy. I never get tired of searching.