Gwilliam Family Memories and Ancestry

Friday, January 9, 2009

Scott Gwilliam

Just a babe in arms with hardly a care in the world. How could he have known that one day he would meet and marry a wee lass from Scotland and that on that day they would not only combine two lives, but two families, and their ancestries with them. Raised by parents who taught him the value of hard work served him well as he would embark through life, and certainly, as led out as the head of a large blended family traveling through their journey, not in a new land, but in a new family.

Helen Bailleul

"Oh the places you'll go," says Dr Seuss. Now I don't know that I've been that many places in life, perhaps more than usual by being raised in Scotland, coming to Canada, holidaying in the U.S., Jamaica, the Caribbean, Mexico and Hawaii, not to mention England and Ireland. I guess that's all impressive enough but I think that Dr Seuss was referring more to accomplishments in life as well. And of my most notable accomplishments they all center around the Family. I have not always been the parent I dreamed I would be, nor do I anticipate any great awards in that department, yet my heart does lie with my "family first", both the living and those gone on before. Those I've known and even those I've never met. A God given link lies between us, and can never be undone, and perhaps that's why I truly do believe that Families not only "can be together forever," but surely will be, in one way or another. I can never go where some of them have gone in any way other than by remembering them, searching their records out, and retaining them for the blessing and convenience of my family, those already here and others still to come. For both of us, it's all pretty much summed up in this awesome little video clip, "#PersonalJourney," which is listed in my "favourite genealogy videos" in the right hand column.