This blog shall serve as a way for me to share my discoveries and photos, and hopefully provide a way of immortalising that information.
To start, a little bit about me. I am quite young - 18 years old - and I have been doing genealogy for two years now, starting in 2014 after my mum brought me to a local cemetery to walk around. I recall her doing that many times in my (younger) youth, but for some reason, that day was different and I instantly fell in love with the idea of visiting more often. I also fell in love with the idea of family history and genealogy. I began researching the Biggar family, starting with Christopher and Ann Biggar, buried in Fruitland Cemetery in Stoney Creek, which was that cemetery we visited that day. I will probably write a post on them later, as that has been an ongoing research project now for years, and it will take a bit of time to plan and write out.
At this point, I have visited hundreds of cemeteries in both Southern and Northern Ontario, and I have recently begun actually saving and archiving the photos I take (I used to just delete them when I was done with them) so I know what I've done and what still needs to be done, and so I can share them further with people who may wish to see them. I am constantly adding new cemeteries and new photos to my archives and hopefully sharing them here will be of help.
I am also interested in the history of the cemeteries - and despite not being religious - in the history of the churches, too.
In my free time, I research the history behind the stones, and some of that will be presented here. Some of it is my own in depth research which I have conducted upon my own time, and other information is what I could locate on the internet. Either way, my blog will present a way for me to share this information with others.
Hopefully this is of help to someone, and either way, preserving history in a more public way than my personal computer is always a good thing.
To start, a little bit about me. I am quite young - 18 years old - and I have been doing genealogy for two years now, starting in 2014 after my mum brought me to a local cemetery to walk around. I recall her doing that many times in my (younger) youth, but for some reason, that day was different and I instantly fell in love with the idea of visiting more often. I also fell in love with the idea of family history and genealogy. I began researching the Biggar family, starting with Christopher and Ann Biggar, buried in Fruitland Cemetery in Stoney Creek, which was that cemetery we visited that day. I will probably write a post on them later, as that has been an ongoing research project now for years, and it will take a bit of time to plan and write out.
At this point, I have visited hundreds of cemeteries in both Southern and Northern Ontario, and I have recently begun actually saving and archiving the photos I take (I used to just delete them when I was done with them) so I know what I've done and what still needs to be done, and so I can share them further with people who may wish to see them. I am constantly adding new cemeteries and new photos to my archives and hopefully sharing them here will be of help.
I am also interested in the history of the cemeteries - and despite not being religious - in the history of the churches, too.
In my free time, I research the history behind the stones, and some of that will be presented here. Some of it is my own in depth research which I have conducted upon my own time, and other information is what I could locate on the internet. Either way, my blog will present a way for me to share this information with others.
Hopefully this is of help to someone, and either way, preserving history in a more public way than my personal computer is always a good thing.
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