I’ve had to buy a subscription to Animoto, a video-making website, for work and tarot purposes, so I’m getting plenty of use out of it. All you do is upload photos, pick some music to accompany the video, and the software does the rest. My first family video features my mother’s parents and their ancestors, the Martin, Morrissette and Bourgeois families. (I don’t have any pictures of the Cyr families yet, but I hope to find some someday!)
The photo at right is my grandmother, Flora Morrissette Martin, at about age …

Having worked my way through two or three genealogy software products over the years, I am now trying out a simple software that’s been around for a long time – for good reason. The Personal Ancestral File program (or “PAF”, as it is commonly known) was created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and is one of the easiest to use programs available. It was also easy to export my family tree from Ancestry.com to a .GED file type, then import that file into PAF.
As I …

A great place to start my long-overdue update of my site is to re-introduce my ancestors’ wedding photos. We’ll start with Bud and Marce, my parents. Aren’t they adorable? I love my Dad’s hair. It has that old-hollywood-movie-star look about it.

Note that this post is from 2005 – I’m converting old data into new posts! I hope to update these charts and somehow get them fully onto the web sometime this year.
I’ve put a compilation book up of my latest research going back about 6 generations on the Weber side and the Martin side. The book includes information on the military regiment in Canada that ancestors in several of the older generations belonged to, as well as information …

Anyone who’s done research into French-Canadian ancestry knows that the naming conventions are somewhat unique, generally owing to the small number of original settlers and the ensuing large family sizes. The result is that there would be several people living at the same time in the same area, all with the same name. In my genealogy documents I’ve taken a few precautions to help me distinguish individuals within a long list of names.