Season 1 – Episode 1 – Beginnings

Season 1 – Episode 1 – Beginnings

Join me for my first Episode “Begiings” That was uploaded today weherever great Podcasts are found.

Brother and Sister Genealogis Team Lynda Villanova Gleason and Larry Villanova from Connecticut me as we discuss their mother’s life in an Orphanage in Halifax in the 1930’s – Forty’s and how her memories of Halifax and her love for the Church that ran the Orphanage she was placed in 1939.  In 2019 this lead them to visit Nova Scotia in search of How They Got Here and how they discovered how her Love for that Church was a connection built almost 2 centuries earlier in her family history.

Places Mentioned in This  Episode

Nova Scotia 

Halifax: St. Pauls Church, St Paul’s Home for Girls Tower Rd. Public Gardens

Lunenburg: St. John’s Anglican Church

Mill Village 

Port Medway

Surnames Mentioned in This Episode

Rafuse, Moreau, Miller, Boutlier, Villanova, Gleason  

People of Historical Significance Mentioned in This Episode

Rev. Jean-Baptiste Moreau

George VI 

Queen Elizabeth “Queen Mother”

Resources Mentioned in This Episode: 

South Shore Genealogical Society,

Nova Scotia Archives

Halifax Library

NewspapersAncestry and Ancestry DNA

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