With Autumn weather now firmly settled in here in Southern Ontario - we had our fist significant snowfall of the season on Thursday night - I have been spending more time indoors and working on my family research. I continue to discover more American ancestors and my new discoveries continue to amaze me. My family is tied in to the growth and development of the United States of America and Canada in more ways than I ever thought possible. In the past week I discovered yet ano

The past couple of weeks have been busy ones for me as I was hosting cousins from England on their first trip to the "New World". I have previously written about these cousins who had become separated from our Canadian family through the passage of time and previous generations of our family. Thanks to my family research, and that of a close personal friend of my cousin, we were reunited several years ago and have seen each other once a year for the past 4 years. This year, m