Why is it important to #tellyourstory? Why is it important to ask questions of your elders, to learn their story?
This 1992 death registration for Anna Caroline Stockton (nee Broe) is a shining example of why. Anna and her husband Ronald didn't have any children, so the information for this document was provided by her nephew Jack Cantelon, the son of Anna's sister Edna (1890-1986).
Anna's nephew should have at least known his maternal Grandmother's name was Serena Satre (she went by Serena but it was formally Sörine). She wasn't born in Fargo, ND. She was born in Ossian, Iowa in 1864 and died in Vancouver in 1960. I know from newspaper articles that Jack spent a lot of time in the company of his Grandmother.
Jack should have also known that his aunt was not born in Ontario. As stated on her 1900 birth registration, she was born at her parents' Vedder Mountain farm in what was at that time referred to as Sumas or Lower Sumas.
Do your kids and grand-kids know your story? If you don't have children, who knows your story?
#familyhistory #storiesmatter #localhistory
