This post has a double meaning…
I haven’t posted anything for some time (as is obvious). I needed to reconnect to my blog, make contact so to speak like getting back in touch with an old friend. You know when you haven’t talked to a friend for a very long time and a lot has happened that you feel the need to share. That happened to me a week ago with an old friend I had lost touch with for a very long time. She called me up at random to touch base and we talked for 3 hrs! It felt just like we hadn’t been apart at all. I love those kinds of re-connections.
So my blog reconnection is just like that. I haven’t had really that much to say that I felt was that important… today’s another day.
While I have been absent from my blog I have not been idle. I have been working on my Family Tree through Ancestry.ca and have had much success. The other pertinent reconnection was connecting again with another Manitoba Forman descendent who turns out is a cousin twice removed. This particular cousin still lives in the Rivers area (where my father was born and grew up) and she is working on the Forman family history as it relates to the town of Rivers. Rivers will celebrate 100 years of existence as a town in 2013. Interestingly that would also be the 100th birthday of my father should he still live.
So upon messaging back and forth with Lorna (the cousin) we sorted out how we were related and who she was descended from. It seems that she is the granddaughter of Ernest J Forman and I know I am the granddaughter of James Harris Forman (Foreman). Lorna had no idea that James Harris and Ernest J were brothers and had come to Manitoba from Ontario about 1900. The two brothers, from census records, appear to have hired on as farm laborers at Wheatland, Manitoba on the farm of my great grandfather Samuel Benjamin Nunn. Ultimately my grandfather married the “farmer’s daughter” and Ernest went on to eventually marry Mabel Harvey.
Lorna passed along to me a picture of my grandfather’s mother, Charlotte Melinda Forman (nee Harris), a picture of Melinda (or Minnie) as she was affectionaly called and Ernest J as young child. The picture is about 1888 and appears to be taken in Bothwell, Ontario. I indicated to Lorna that I have a picture of an older “Minnie” sometime in the 1920’s; I’ll post that picture later. In the meantime, let me introduce to you my Great Grandmother Charlotte Melinda Forman (nee Harris).
