OK, I missed the Canada Day parade and the fireworks on the beach. That's because when I woke up this morning I decided to start a website describing how my Ripley relatives came to Canada. A few summers ago, I had no idea that my grandmother, born Alice Malinda Ripley, was a descendant of Robert Ripley and Isabella Beane, who emigrated from Yorkshire to the British colony of Nova Scotia back in 1774. |
Better late than never. A week from now I'll be making my first trip to Nova Scotia, so I thought this would be a good time to start. I'm planning to visit the graves of 5 generations of great grandparents and to locate a few of the original homesteads. I don't have much on the new website yet but maybe it will be easier to digest that way. I haven't been able to get too many normal people interested in my 2500-name tree. Oh...and thanks to my Weebly Website Pioneer friends Paul and Maureen who provided just the right combination of arm-twisting and tutoring to get me started. You didn't really think I'd write about technology, did you?