Estacaille Genealogy

Happy spring everyone! I’ve been busy with college courses, web design clients & job hunting.  The little bit of genealogy research I’ve collected is Estacaille, maybe a tiny bit of Braniff and Judas.I’ve been fortunate the last couple of months to have received a CD of old Judas/Baker photos collected by a researching cousin who [...]

Today I had an email from a site visitor asking about the Piapot Prairie Trails book of pioneer bios.  It lead to two discoveries – a fan page on Facebook for Piapot history; and an online copy of the book, with a search engine. Bookmark this site http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=13210&qryID=86b3cd98-f0a3-4971-b5c0-8c752572c488

As I was between jobs, I decided to take a vacation to the lower part of British Columbia. I met up with my aunt Ev at her home in Tulameen and on Friday, March 26th we travelled to Oliver. The day was overcast and cool, but as we entered the church with our Overton cousins, [...]

Cousin Faustine passed away January 5, 2010 in Oliver, British Columbia. She was 90 years old and had been suffering from declining health the past few years.

I received a surprise in the mail yesterday – the copy of Johann Judas’s death certificate I ordered a month ago.  I wasn’t expecting to get it so fast – thank you Wisconsin Dept of Vital Statistics! Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide me with the name of Johann’s parents like I was REALLY  hoping. But it [...]

Mom called me an hour ago to give me the news that her uncle Raymond Judas passed away suddenly sometime in the early morning.  He would have been 89 in September. As far as we know, the funeral will be this coming Friday. We wish we could be there together in person… mom has been wanting [...]

Since my last post, Geni.com has revised the limits on how many generations I can see.  It has been upgraded from 3rd cousins to 4th cousins.  That means I can easily see cousin Delphine’s information again! That’s great as Delphine is an Estacaille cousin, orginally from France, who has probably as much interest in contacting [...]

I’ve posted on my blog at http://estacaille.ning.com but wanted to share right here what is going on. If you’re a regular visitor to my site, you probably read about my uploading the database to www.geni.com back in January 2009.  As a free user there were a couple of restrictions – one being that the automatic [...]

I started off my 2009 by uploading my entire Estacaille database to the free online tree site at www.Geni.com. (This upload included all the new Schmudlach info, which I haven’t uploaded here yet as of today) I’ve since been busy sending email invitations to cousins, asking them to join and claim their leaf in the [...]

This morning I received a phone call from my dad informing me that Allan Sellers has passed away. Al was the 2nd husband of cousin Sheran Lomon (nee Overton).