My Genealogy
My interest in my Family tree started when my parents passed
away. Unfortunately in my younger years, I was not too interested and my
parents were not generous with family information when they were alive.
I do have some information from documents & photos I inherited, but the
photos are mostly undated and have no information written on the back.
My research started by going through the Vancouver City Directories from
1920 to current, looking for the Daniel, Sampson & Symons Surname as they came over to Canada from the UK. I was able to track
down some relatives that way.
The next step was to interview any relatives I could find locally & find
out what I could about my family.
I am fortunate in that both my parents were born in the UK as the UK has
some good genealogy resources such as census, birth, death & marriage
records.
The next step was joining the British Columbia Genealogical Society.
There, I participated in a few courses & learned about the LDS (Church of
Latter-day Saints) and their commitment to Genealogical research, as it
is part of their Religion. They invite non members to use their
resources, which I did, & it is vast.
Over the past few years Genealogical data has been increasing available
over the internet, so I have been researching by subscribing to several
online resources.
Over time, I will be posting some of my research on this website.
Privacy is a big concern nowadays, so any personal information of
"living" individuals will not be included, only their names.
Other Interests
I have many interests, such as Automobiles & Trucks, Camping,
Gardening/Landscaping.
Over several years, I have done a lot of Internet research to help out
with my various Interests. Therefore I have included those websites as
links, see the right side of the page.
Notes
Go to my
Notes page
to find out about my design &
usage of elements of this site.