Welcome to my blog!

With encouragement of my daughter Melanie McFarlane and instruction from Lisa Louise Cooke on her Genealogy Gems YouTube channel, I am launching my Finding Dennis blog.

Over the past three years I have been learning so much about genealogy and family history that it is overwhelming at times. It is time to put this learning into action with better research, sourcing of my research, ensuring it is accurate, and writing what I have found.

At the beginning of 2018 I began a writing program started by genealogist Amy Johnson Crow called "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" where she gives prompts each week and I take the prompt and write about an ancestor relating to the prompt. I am going to post what I write here starting with week one and hopefully through the year catch up to the present week prompt.

In these past three years I have had the pleasure of connecting with many cousins, some I have got to meet in person others online, with the hope of one day meeting. I have also been following several genealogists through books, podcasts, websites and webinars. I just had the privilege of attending Rootstech in Salt Lake City! Wow what a conference! I was able to meet many of the genealogists that I follow.

I plan to write about meeting these cousins, the people I meet in genealogy, about my travels and genealogical discoveries along the way.

I appreciate the support of my wife Evelyn and the encouragement she gives me to follow this passion. I am so fortunate to have her and be able to help her on her own road of discovery in family history.

Thank you for joining my search!

Dennis