Welcome to Curating Kin
For years I’ve been interested in stories and photos, and it was this love that got me into genealogy. Through this journey I have found more stories, photos, and people than I originally thought possible.
This blog will be the outlet for those photos, stories, and documents about our families that came before us. It will allow me to share my knowledge, discoveries, and obstacles about our families of the past with our families of the present. And it might just mean that my husband isn’t quite so inundated with all the genealogy talk that often results in comments like “you know more about my family than I do” and the “you should write that down”.
My research area falls mainly within Canada, England, and Ireland. Particular interests include the Niagara Penisula, Simcoe County, and Norfolk County in Canada, as well as Somerset, Suffolk, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire in England. We are still working out where my husband’s Irish ancestors came from.
Our main families on my husband’s side of the tree include Berrigan, Bishop, Cameron, Chappell, Farthing, Kelly, O’Hara, and Walsh. My side of the tree includes Cox, Finch, Fort, Hart, Mantle, Montross, Skelcher, and Taylor. Of course, with all families the names are far more plentiful than can be quickly listed.
Over the coming posts I plan to share my research as well as my journey in the process of overcoming obstacles such as adoptions and house fires, tracing immigrants, United Empire Loyalists, and the journeys of labourers and lawyers alike. It is all about curating the lives of our kin.
If you believe you are related to our families in any way, I would love to get in contact with you. Please email me at the address provided at the bottom of each page.
Copyright ©2014, Chriss Coleman