Spending sometime today researching the Will of Thomas Ferris who left his home and possessions to his wife and children when he died in 1887. I'll spend a few hours continuing to trace back his home from the current owners back to when our family owned it. So far I am back to 1972. ( 5 owners so far ) Also think I will visit the Cambridge Cemetery and give a look at almost three dozen ancestors whose final resting place are there. I want to research Porteus, Griffith, Crocker and Ferris graves there again and make sure there is no information I have missed. This cemetery's sextant is very helpful and their records are great for name, age at death, date of death, place of death, date of burial, undertaker, and sometimes cause of death. Often more then one person is buried under a gravestone though not marked on the stone. I found 9 family members under one stone yet only two marked on the stone and 8 others buried ( including my grandfather ) in an unmarked grave.
The more you speak with relatives even just slightly older then you and the more you get them to talk about their memories, the more they suddenly remember as long ago places and things buried years ago are suddenly remembered. You never know what kind of discoveries await you from those memories. Keep hunting out there and thanks for dropping in on me here !
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