Family

Children learn what they live
Children learn what they live. This means that they learn from their parents, schoolmates, teachers... Like a sponge, they absorb their words, thoughts and actions. Parents strive to teach them values, yet children take up those values that their parents show through their behaviour, emotions and attitude in the everyday life. Our way of expressing and controlling feelings becomes a child's model that they will keep for the rest of their life. So we must care what we do, what we talk... Child...

Family and Friends
Family and Friends are what is important in life.
Fill your days with Acts of Kindness! Our family is a circle of strength and love. There is a link to a story about a burl cribbage table that was handcrafted by my Dad, Harry Peterson There is a heartfelt poem about a special friend that you will want to read. Family Ties Family Ties Are precious things Woven through the years, of laughter, love and tears. Family ties are cherished things forged in childhood days, by love of parents deep and true, by tradition, by family ways. Family tie...

How Do I Start My Family Tree?
Start Your Family Tree with YOU.
The big picture - It is important to start your family tree information with yourself because it can be added to in an organized manner from there and it is the information that you know the best. Next add your Father and Mother and then if you can add your both sets of Grandparents. Once you have added what you know then you can start the ancestor treasure hunt for more names and information. Often you will find Old Newspapers online like the Prince George, BC School News - 1926 where I fou...

The Family I Never Knew
This is the story of The Family I Never Knew...my father's family.
The photo to the left are of people I have never known, yet I am of their blood. This photo was left to me by my sister who passed away in 2010. It shows my paternal grandparents , William Thomas and Lucinda Cowan Brown. I never met my Grandfather Brown and I met my Grandmother Brown only once that I recall. My father was a sickly, thin man who was pampered by his mother. My mother married him and refused to pamper him and thus began the breech in the families. It was a rift that would never ...

How To Make Happy Family Memories
Sharing a "How To" method that could be beneficial was challenging. What topic did I know that well? Then I began filing through my mind for possibilities. Thinking, what could I possibly share that would be considered interesting and, most importantly, helpful. I then stopped on the one topic that makes my life worthwhile and offers the most value to share with others. My life has a foundation which penetrates every aspect of my life and is a universal recipe for something most people seek a...

Youngest of Five
It's not easy being fifth
My Mom gave birth to five kids in seven years. I am the youngest in the family. The baby--as my siblings like to remind me. It was great growing up in a large family for the most part. We always had each other to play with and to argue with. But being the last out of five can be hard on a kid. The way I saw it my siblings had done it all, mastered everything, and found their talents and long before I popped out the womb. I had a tough time figuring out what I was good at, what made me uniq...

How To Info for Genealogy Search
Genealogy search start
WISHING ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! All pictures are of our ancestors just for fun. This is a wedding day photo. Are those really expressions of love?? IMPORTANT start Keeping records do this from the very start Have two source books one for keeping a record of pictures, documents, information, stories, etc.you received, date received and where or from whom the information came. And one for a written record of all the sources you have searched to include positive and negative results. Below ...

When Starlane Belonged to Mamie Peterson
It is Time to Set the Record Straight
To my dismay, the errors that the City of Prince George made in their signage is now being continued throughout the internet. It is not a local problem anymore. I am here to speak out on byhalf of my Dad and Mom, Harry and Mamie Peterson. I was a teenager still living at home when my Mom and Dad decided to sell their property on top of Peden Hill. As children, the 3 of us spent a lot of time hiking in the woods up there and we hated to see it sold. My parents gave us each a lot of our choice...

I love you with all my heart
I love you all.
My family are the ones who keep me going, we have our differences but they are there for me when I have downs, forgive me for my wrongs and love me for who I am. to these people I owe my love forever, even at the times we do not get my self here are all the people I love and why they are just the best in my life.

Looking for my grandfather
Don't Know Much About (My Grandfather's) History
This lens was started in August of 2009, and will be the story of my search for information about my grandfather. As of today, I know very little about my grandfather. The picture is of my mother at age 15. She was the daughter of Ed Fuller and Zella Stapleton Fuller