So I haven’t posted in a long time, life started to happen so I had to take care of things.

As it turns out I am going to be going back to school to get a CGA designation. That is accounting. I am very excited however between going hardcore at school and working and general life I do not think I am going to have any time to maintain the blog.

I am hoping that someone will be able and willing to maintain the blog with updates and photos and stories and all the rest while I do my schooling. Someone central to the family, and who has the time most of all. Any takers? Email me or chat with me on Facebook.

I am hoping that the schooling will only be a few years but it may take longer. Cheers!

I have finished the scanning of the photos that I got from Grandma last week. They added almost 2000 photos to my collection. There has been a good mixture of photos. Weddings, Birthdays, Graduations, Newborns, trips and more good stuff.

I am now working on figuring out who is in these photos and for the older ones I may very well be posting some to figure out if anyone has any clues. As I had mentioned earlier Mike Scudder has been sending me a lot of information as well.

I am still doing some research, mostly to break the tedium of uploading and looking at over 3000 photographs. However by and large it has stopped. Thankfully I know 6 people working now on different aspects of the family, so they are always sending me information.

Also, if you have family documents or photos that you would like to get onto the wiki, you can do it in several ways. If you know how you can scan the document and send it to me via the contact page. You can also upload it yourself if you feel adventurous, it really is not that hard. However if you do not know how, we can always arrange for me to get the items and do it for you. You have my guarantee that you will get it back as you gave it to me. I have already borrowed a load of book , photos and documents from other people with no damage to the items. Lets preserve the family history while we can.

Also I have a good audio recording of a day with Myrtle and Victor. That will be hitting the wiki in a few weeks. Hopefully I start to do some more posts here soon, just to keep things going. Here is hoping that everyone is well! Keep checking back

Over the last few days I have acquired a massive load of findings that I need to scan, sort, upload, tag, input and otherwise deal with.  It is quite amazing actually.  I got about 2000 photos from Myrtle Hurford, and most of these photos are amazing.  They range from their house fire with the articles from the newspapers about them, to their new house that they have lives in for the past 50 years.  There are Photos of them and Myrtles relations in England, and a a few photos that are so odd that I couldn’t help but to preserve them.

I had also met another relation from that side of the family, Mike Scudder of Mission.  He has a wealth of information and photos that I was excited to see, he has more that I haven’t even seen yet.

Not only that but I got the archives for the Squamish Chief/Times from 1948 all the way to 1975, I just didn’t have the means to get the years of 1976 to 2001.

All of this is not including the approximately 5000 slides that my brother has gotten a hold of and is in the middle of scanning.

All in all, research may have stopped for the time being, cataloging and documenting is probably going to be the game this year.