A couple of years ago, while I was researching my Irish Roots and preparing to go to Halifax Nova Scotia to shoot my internet documentary By Her Roots, I received a death notice for my great grandfather from a family researcher in Dublin, Ireland. Turns out he was buried in the Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto. Not only had I never heard of this grandfather, neither had my mother. And even more surprising to me was that my family lived and worked all our lives around this cemetery and never knew we had an ancestor there.
He died on same day as my mother's birthday so i took her to the cemetery for her birthday....
Here is the latest short webisode from my series By Her Roots:
