We called her "Babcha". I always thought it was an old country honourific, and so I called my great-grandmother "Old Lady" for the twelve years I knew her.

Long before I knew her, however, she was not an old lady. No, not at all. She was a young woman living in Poland in the early 1900s, yearning for a fresh start away from a stepmother she didn't like.

Family Photos from WWI, WWII, and Peacekeeping

I'm finally getting back into The Routine after my vacation. There was a lot of walking and visiting
and (most of all) driving, so it's taken me a while to rest up and get back to normal.

Of course, I had a lovely time seeing everyone in Vancouver and in Calgary. However, this is my
family history blog, so I'll focus this entry on my time in our "ancestral town" of Fernie, BC.

They say that your job doesn't define who you are, it's just what you do. However, I subscribe to the theory that the jobs that our ancestors did often provide clues to who they were. The details of the occupations held by our ancestors can be found in census records, many of which are available online.