Tattered photographs, old recipes, and family stories are my addiction. A year ago, I did not know the names of my great grandparents, where they lived, who they loved, what they did for work, and how they came to immigrate to the United States. Since then, I’ve tramped through cemeteries, scrolled through microfilm, hunted online, and connected with distant cousins in an effort to know more about the people who formed who I am today.
Now that I have a few clues to my ancestors’ background, I hope to learn to “read between the lines” to find out more about who they were, what challenges they suffered, and what joys they may have experienced. This blog is about my search for the Spillane, Goudreau, Lambert, and Dyer families in New England, Canada, England and Ireland. I’m also an Allen by marriage, and I want to learn more about my husband’s family from Nova Scotia and Northern Ireland.
Since I’m relatively new to genealogy, I’ll also be learning ways to organize my research, record information, and make sense of the information that I’ve gathered. Besides finding the facts about my ancestors, I hope to put their lives in a historical context that will help me understand their hopes and dreams as well as their failures and disappointments.
Photo: Edmond and Georgiana Lambert and their children, Amherst MA
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