Canadian Genealogy: Knowing About Your Canadian Roots. UK Addendum below.
Today, there are a lot of people who don’t know about their family’s past for many reasons. Some have been separated, some have personal family issues, and others were affected by historical events that changed their family’s lives forever.
Canada is a country rich in culture and history. You have to consider that a lot of people have migrated and lived in Canada and started a family. If you have Canadian ancestry in your blood and you want to find out more about your family and what happened to them, you can hire a genealogist to help you with your quest.
There are Canadian genealogists today who offer their services for a fee. You have to consider that researching for your ancestry alone can be very difficult. With a genealogist, you can be sure that you will be able to trace your genealogy at the fastest time possible and with little effort in your part. A genealogist will know what documents to look for and where to look for it. They will also organize all the documents and provide you with a copy of it or in some cases, some genealogists even provides you with the original copy of the documents.
You can even take it a step further by getting information about what happened to your extended relatives. For many reasons, people try and find out about their family’s past. Some say that they do it to find out more about themselves, and there are also others who do this to put up a family tree. There are also people who want to know about their family’s medical past to know about a mysterious medical condition that has been plaguing their family for years.
However, finding out about your family’s past can be fun and exciting. For instance, you may even find out that you are a relative of someone famous. Or, you may even find out that you have a different race and not entirely of Hispanic blood. For example, in the United States, an African American man began researching his family’s history and found out that he was a relative of a wealthy Hispanic plantation owner back in the days where plantations and slavery existed.
As you can see, there are quite a lot of surprises that you can come across with if you research about your Canadian ancestry. However, you have to consider that it will take quite a while to search all the document archives. You have to realize that depending on how long you are willing to look back in your family, you have to expect that it will take a long time to retrace your roots if you are willing to look back on a lot of years.
Although it will take quite a long time and you will encounter a lot of dead ends, you have to consider that with patience and determination, you will be able to learn about your Canadian ancestry. Always remember that you have to be patient as genealogy is a complex process where there will be lost or misplaced documents among thousands of other documents available.
UK Addendum
From the 1700’s, many people emigrated to America from Britain. You may be following their line and come to a sudden halt. This could be because lots of folk decided to move on to Canada, especially after the gold-rush declined.
One of my ancestors, for example, led a waggon train from America to Alberta, in Canada, and set about settling in the Calgary area. So if you come accross a brick wall in your American search, try a new serch in Canada.
Also, after WW2 lots of people left with Canadian service men/women after meeting them during the war years. My aunt was amongst them and now has many grandchildren and great grand children.
Good places to start your Canadian research would be Family Search.org and Ancestry.co.uk Millions of Records, Millions of Answers. Ancestry.co.uk – Click here!