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By now you probably know that my name is Debbie Wyman. I live in North Western Ontario with my husband Grant and my three little girls, Jessica and Jennifer who are 5 years old and, Nicole who is 10 months.

I am still in the process of gathering genealogical information, nevertheless all the data I have collected so far is available here on my site, sorted by family name. You are welcome to take what you need for your personal use. If you have anything you would like to contribute to our family tree  I would be very pleased to receive it.

 I was bitten by the genealogy bug back in 1997. It's a hobby that I've pursued off and on ever since. (There's just TOO many hobbies and not enough time)! It's something that I wanted to pass along to my children, grandchildren and other members of our family. Searching for my roots has brought many hours of enjoyment into my life. I've especially enjoyed finding relatives that I didn't even know we had. "You know how you are"....hehehe.
I want to find out as much as I can about our history and heritage. I want to present our ancestors as "real" people. I want my children to know that those two people whose names and dates appeared on a piece of paper were "Real" people. I've been trying to learn more about the history of different periods of time to better understand their personal histories. I want to know more about the things that hurt them and the things that gave them pleasure.

Although wars, fashions and customs change, some things have never changed...love, pride in children, devotion to country, sadness at the death of loved ones and joy at the success of a crop or a new job. I have discovered that deeds can sometimes tell us of their financial histories. Church records can tell us for whom they mourned or celebrated. Court records can tell us how well they got along with their neighbors or civil authorities. I feel sad for them when I think about some of the enormous pain they must have felt and had to endure during their lifetimes. I think how terrible it must have felt to leave their parents behind who knew they'd never see their children again. I can only imagine the pain they must have felt when they left their homelands and moved to a new land where many dangers faced them and their children. "Back home" was seething with famine, disease, wars and rumors of wars. We can only imagine the fear and worry they felt for their families and friends back home. They must have also had many fears for their children in the new land as well. There were so many deaths of newborns and young children. Too many mothers died during childbirth. There was so much sickness and disease because of the lack of proper medical care.
We have no idea of the unremitting labor it took for the first settlers to just survive. What did they do to survive? Unless they were wealthy and could have certain goods shipped over here, they had to do without or make it themselves. What did they do for fun? Go to church, sing, dance, tell stories, visit, and make descendants.
Thank you for joining me in my adventure into the past.

If you think you belong to any branch of my trees please contact me and please don't forget to sign the guestbook. If you have any question or need help finding information?, I would be happy to help, email me!.

Debbie

P.S
If anyone can help me with my very slow pdf. files I would appreciate it. I'm guessing I need to rescan them but, I will wait for help.