Dear Readers,  I have posted infrequently to my blog this year and only twice since my mother passed away on May 22.  With the recent, and sudden, death of my younger sister Marianne on July 4, I have decided to take a break from blogging.  My sister’s death was heartbreaking and a shock to our brother Raymond and myself. It is especially so for her husband Gabriel and their two children and grandson.  I am not sure how long I will be absent from my blog, but I will be back in the next few months.  Copyright © 2019, Yvonne Demoskoff ..read more

Wonderful photo of my late father-in-law William (Bill) Demoskoff (1914-2015) with his son Michael and his grandson Nicholas in Grand Forks, B.C. in the spring of 1997. Copyright © 2019, Yvonne Demoskoff ..read more

It’s Saturday night and Randy at Genea-Musings has issued his weekly challenge to his readers. Tonight’s mission is to answer the following questions and then share our answers in our “own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post”. 1) It's Father's Day in the USA [and Canada] on Sunday, so let's talk about our fathers. 2) Show us your favorite photograph of your father - the one that shows him in the best light possible. Describe the occasion, the setting, and the people in the photograph.Maurice Belair with son Raymond (about 1982) This is one of my favorite phot ..read more

It’s Saturday night and Randy at Genea-Musings has issued his weekly challenge to his readers. Tonight’s mission is to answer the following questions and then share our answers in our “own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post”. 1) Determine where your ancestral families were on 18 May 1919 - 100 years ago. 2) List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible). Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist? • My paternal grandparents had not met in 1919 ..read more

A blessed and happy Easter, everyone! Joyeuses Pâques, tout le monde! Copyright © 2019, Yvonne Demoskoff ..read more

It’s Saturday night and Randy at Genea-Musings has issued his weekly challenge to his readers. Tonight’s mission is to answer the following questions and then share our answers in our “own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook”. 1) What day of the week was your Grandfather born (either one)? Tell us how you found out. 2) What has happened in recorded history on your Grandfather's birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events. 3) What famous people have been born on your Grandfather's birth date? Tell us how you found ..read more

Today marks the 155th wedding anniversary of my maternal great-great-grandparents Louis Hotte and Marguerite Lacasse. Louis was born on 17 April 1844 in Grenville, a village in Argenteuil seigneurie (later Argenteuil County) on the banks of the Outaouais (Ottawa) River, in present-day Quebec. He was the second child and younger son of Jean-Baptiste and Archange (Sigouin) Hotte. Marguerite was one of ten children of Pierre and Thérèse (Doyer) Lacasse. She was born on 23 April 1839 in Montebello, a village in the Petite-Nation seigneurie, now in Papineau County, Quebec. Louis and Marguerite ..read more

Randy at Genea-Musings issued his weekly Saturday challenge to his readers. Tonight it’s “Birth Order in Your Line” in which we answer two questions and then share our answers in a blog post, a comment to Randy’s blog post, or at Facebook. 1. Pick one of your ancestral lines - any one - patrilineal, matrilineal, zigzag, from a famous ancestor, etc. Pick a long one if you can.2. Tell us which position in the birth order that your ancestor was in each generation. For example "third child, first son." Also list how many children were born to these parents. I chose my mother’s patrilineal lin ..read more