Footprints to Heritage

Thank you everyone who tuned in to our livestream this morning on 'The Schooner Fishery’, with Adrian Morrison of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic If you... missed our livestream this morning, you can find it under our 'videos' tab! Please also be advised that our next weekly livestream will take place on Thursday, April 22nd at 1:00 pm ADT, and will discuss ‘Building Bluenose’ Image: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic / Nova Scotia Museum

Have you researched the church (Religious building) where your ancestors worshiped?

A day in the life on the Grand Banks Before breakfast: Wake up and bait trawl (a fishing line a mile and a half in length, with hanging hooks spread all al...ong the length). Once all hooks have been baited, and coiled in their trawl tubs, the dories (smaller fishing craft) are lowered over the side of the schooner to set out the trawl. Once the trawl has been set, the dories row back to the schooner. Breakfast After breakfast: Row dories back and tend the trawl (trawl is tended by passing the trawl from the bowman, to the afterman, while removing the fish and re-baiting the trawl). Once trawl is set, row back to the schooner and pitchfork each fish from the dory (a dory could hold up to 2000 lbs total) to the deck of the schooner, where the dressing crew prepare them for salting. Lunch After lunch: Row dories back and tend the trawl. Remove fish and re-bait trawl. Row back to the schooner and load fish on deck to be cleaned and split. Repeat a final time, hauling in trawl. Supper After supper: Ensure all catch has been salted and properly stored in the hold. Once the catch has been processed, wash the decks to ensure everything is left clean and properly stowed in ship-shape. Turn in for the Night However, the work is not done. There is still a schooner to maintain. Watches to be stood throughout the night. Constantly changing weather conditions and sails to tend to. Twenty-four hours a day. These were the wooden ships and the iron men. To learn more, join us this Saturday, April 17th at 10:00 am ADT for our livestream on ‘The Schooner Fishery’, featuring an interview with Adrian Morrison, Curator at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic Image: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic / Nova Scotia Museum

A real social history post. In the every day life of our ancestors, what was on the weekly grocery list for home meals? #familyhistory

Research TIP: Check back periodically to your favourite research databases. Updates and new collections are added as more records become available, especially where privacy restrictions apply. This is true for major resources such as MyHeritage, FindMyPast, FamilySearch and Ancestry (newest update: https://www.ancestry.ca/cs/recent-collection) The second reason is that corrections to transcription errors have been added and now your elusive ancestor will be shown in the search results. Happy searching! #FP2H #genealogy #familyhistory #skillbuilding

Lunenburg Born Bluenose was built at the Smith and Rhuland Shipyard in Lunenburg. Smith and Rhuland opened in 1900 when George Rhuland and Richard Smith joined ...forces to build schooners for the fishery. Smith and Rhuland built many other famous vessels including Bluenose II, our flagship Theresa E. Connor, the fishing schooner Sherman Zwicker (now a restaurant in New York City) and the replica of H.M.S. Bounty used in the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty The image shows the Smith and Rhuland shipyard in 1905 and is part of the collection of the DesBrisay Museum, Bridgewater NS. Bluenose 100 , GRAND BANKS @grandbanksnyc Bluenose II @desbrisaymuseum DesBrisay Museum #novascotia, #bluenose, #novascotiamuseum, #woodenboat, #novascotiamuseum

As a child, we always had Beans & Wieners on Saturday night, and in later years, we added Cheez Whiz to them. I grew up north of New England in Nova Scotia, but we had Colonial New England roots and a rich seafaring heritage. Perhaps the origins reach back to that time period. I learned to make real baked beans, and not just open a can, served with freshly baked homemade biscuits. A cozy winter meal. Who knew there were so many varieties of beans!

You could be a census enumerator for the May 2021 census. https://census.gc.ca/jobs-emplois-eng.htm

Tis the season for holiday baking!

Christmas is almost here! What is on your 2020 Genealogy Wish List?

Visit the #HalifaxExplosion exhibit at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what/halifax-explosion

FREE! This is a really good webinar about Lineage & Hereditary Societies. I was surprised that there are so many that I knew nothing about! AND what is available to access in their website collections. It is really worth attending this webinar. https://fb.me/e/24D0O7Ilw

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We don't often think about what happens after the shipwreck! So nice to see that he was honoured for his service to the Captain and crew of the shipwrecked Coronet in the time of need. Makes me want to dig more into my seafaring ancestors' adventures! #familyhistory #socialhistory #NovaScotiaRoots #heritage

Family History research involves more than names, dates and places. Every single person had a life - long or short - and their stories deserves to be told. This Social History course with The National Institute for Genealogical Studies provides an opportunity to seek out some of those life events and the stories behind them. It will inspire you to dig deeper..... to find "The Rest of the Story" for your ancestor! #familyhistory #genealogy #onlineeducation #heritage #socialhistory

This is an interesting collection - 18,000 digitized early maps and views from the Topographical Collection of George III. The images are available to view, download and study https://www.flickr.com//britishli/albums/72157716220271206

Shared from The History List: Love the Rebolutionary War? Be sure to check out our Rev War collection, including a time line poster. https://store.thehistorylist.com/collections/colonial-revwar