Your ancestors lived through heat waves, blizzards, floods, and droughts—events that influenced their daily lives and big decisions. By integrating historical weather records into your research, you can uncover new insights into their experiences. This presentation will guide you through finding weather data for Bruce County, Canada, the US, and the UK and using it to enrich your family history. Plus, we’ll briefly examine the climate challenges that future generations will likely face.
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John was born and raised in Norfork, England. He came to Canada after obtaining a BSc degree and has lived in four provinces and Colorado, where he completed PhD studies.
His direct ancestors include teachers, a motor mechanic, a WW2 prisoner of war, musicians, a Church of England Minister, a Rabbi, shopkeepers, a sergeant in the US Army, a cigar maker, an orphaned teenage coal miner, numerous homemakers, and loads of AgLabs. Perhaps, if some unrecorded event didn’t break the chain, an Astronomer Royal of Portugal.
At the start of his career, he was a weather forecaster before moving into environmental research and policy with Environment Canada and the Weather Service. He has been researching his family history for 30 years and writing his Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections family history blog for half that time.
