Thursday – May 25th, 2023 = +11˚C / +50˚F & it’s been raining off and on here in New Brunswick, Canada
— I went looking to try to verify things I thought I remembered about the Brooks/Borden/Armstrong/Oviattt side of the family & since I don’t think anybody outside our families comes near this blog I feel safe adding a few more screen shots.
— I think the Brookses came from Huddersfield, England -in the Yorkshire area – Watching the British television programme “Escape to the Country” I learned that the “shire” ending in places like Yorkshire { Pronounced “York-sheer” } means ‘County’.
– “Family Tree with Oviatts showing.” – ‘Aunt Ethel’ was my Maternal Grandmother’s sister. I recently learned that I have a second cousin living in Portland Oregon. – You may have to click on the above image to get it full size to read the captions beneath the photos and generic place-holders –
— In the above screen shot – top middle – George Arthur Brooks { “Uncle Art” } isn’t there and neither is my Aunt Marjory – They somehow ended up way off to the right – And in my immediate family – a lot of first or second husbands and/or wives didn’t show up either – Things do get ‘quirky’ here in genealogy land — I might not have all the spellings right – but I do believe I got the above information from somebody else – maybe someone who contacted ‘mon amour foo’ looking for Harris relatives but actually had a gold mine of Bordens in her Tree.
— & on a sad note, I had some of my near relative Oviatt descendants mixed up and wanted to check my facts with one of my favourite second cousins and discovered that her husband – who was one of the nicest guys I ever met – passed away earlier this month 🙁 –
— It’s been a rough year so far…
– – – – – Jim