Genealogy Group

What started as a group of locals assisting the Ontario Genealogical Society in 1990, with the creation of a province-wide index of all cemetery headstones, eventually became the origin story for the Haliburton Highlands Genealogy Group, focused on local family history and genealogy.With more than 80 members, the local group meets five times a year, but for many members, including Espina, the day-to-day is usually spent sifting through websites and registries all aimed at connecting people with their roots.The job requires genealogists to be one part detective and other part researcher, but the process is a lot easier now that technology puts everything at your fingertips. In the early days, however, the work required trips to the Ontario archives and hours spent pouring over records of all kinds.Adele Espina, Chair of the group, sat down with CanoeFM recently to talk about how finding someone's ancestors is a voyage of discovery.