In the context of St. Patrick's Day, I celebrate Ireland's beauty, the great contributions it has made to history, to spirituality, to music and to culture.
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Recently, I was talking with a friend about a small dilemma I face when working on my hobbies.
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Now Spring beckons to us,
The grass and the green,
New buds and small flowers
Are making the scene.
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The love and lore - and almost addiction, of family genealogical research.
Watch, enjoy, but be careful; it really can be an addictive pursuit.
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“It’s such a gift for someone to tell you the truth, and it’s such a gift for someone to create art with the mess and the chaos and the despair of life, to have turned it into a song, a poem, a nov
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Beyond the cold earth, thorns and thistles, and other seemingly impossibly insurmountable circumstances . . .
Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
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What will you do with this man?
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I have two links with Irish roots in my family tree, from both my mother and father’s sides of the family.
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My pursuit of genealogy as a hobby has become a passion, perhaps even an addiction.
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Real worth is found in the Babe of Bethlehem, in the Christ of Glory!
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I-Phone has a neat little application available to it, called Prisma.
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George F. MacLeod, founder of the Iona Community, wrote many wonderful prayers.
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Here is my father’s mother - Alice Annie Green standing by the graves of her grandparents, in England in 1896.
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So many ways to communicate Good News. I love the proclamation, the word of mouth, even as I remember the challenge of St.
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A CBC radio interview in which host Susan McReynolds interviewed me on August 26th, 2016 - on the occasion of the return and Committal of the remains of my great-uncle, Freeman Barber, to interment
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My Great Uncle, Freeman Barber, was interred in the Avondale Cemetery, Guelph, ON - August 26th, 2016. I had the privilege of conducting the Committal Service.
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Click on the Movie and listen and look, pause and read.
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Wind swept cold and spongy moss
Of heather underfoot. Grey sculling
Clouds that fleece sky and sheep --
Their winter coats askew
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Listen to this brief telling of the Moon - Green connection.
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Grandpa and Grandma Richardson lived here, in Eden Mills, ON, in the mi
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Usually, I will be posting all things to do with genealogy in that section of this site.
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Some random photos. I love photography and the gift of travel in recent years.
Music: 'November Rain'
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UPDATE TO WHAT FOLLOWS. I have found the record of the birth of James Stratton, son of Thomas Stratton, labourer and Sarah Newman - Pewsey Registration District of Wiltshire, Engla
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The week of the celebration of St. Patrick's life, I am of course thinking of beautiful Ireland, and some of my own family roots there.
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Recently, I accompanied my mother and sister on an indoor excursion and visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.
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In the Autumn of 2012, I visited Co Wicklow, Ireland, to the ancestral home and townlands related to my Willoughby family ancestors.
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Lambshead – interesting name, that.
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