As mentioned in the bio, I do geneology for fun. I have always been interested in my family history as I am a first generation Canadian in my family; my parents having come from Ukraine and Poland during World War 2. So I picked it up again while I was pregnant with my twins. It was summer and I was too big and too hot to move but I still wanted to be productive. So I decided to take a crack at my family and see what I could learn, plus I had married into a large family and still couldn’t sort them all out. (Hubby is is the 2nd of 40 1st cousins, so family reunions are interesting.)
My geneology quest took me to local cemeteries and from there, I wander all over, photographing stones and posting them on various sites like Findagrave, Billiongraves, CanGenWeb (Cemetery project), Canadian Headstones, and now I have gone back to Wikitree and categorize cemetery listings when I can. There are different types of researchers. Some just take the photos and post them. Others, like me, like to do the research on who they are. I am obsessed with connecting the families, and so I virtually wander the continent. For the past 2 days, I have been sorting out a cemetery listing for Mountain View Cemetery on Findagrave.
Mountain View is the only cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia and encompasses about 10 blocks; starting at 31st avenue and going to 43rd. There are 11 sections of the cemetery.
From their website
Vancouver’s only cemetery is located west of Fraser St, between 31st Ave and 43rd Ave. Owned and operated by the City of Vancouver since 1886, Mountain View is made up of 106 acres of land with approximately 92,000 grave sites and 145,000 interred remains.
So I have been sorting out the Buss family who are buried in Horne1 closest to the road near the intersection of 33rd and Fraser. Sometimes you have stones with names that you can’t find records for in vitals. BC is lucky to have online archive database through the Royal BC Museum (royalbcmuseum.bc.ca). Rules for privacy are that no data newer than 20 years is available. So I was trying to figure out why I had no records on G. Weiss who died on November 2, 1902, according to the stone. I decided to do a reverse look up, and searched for people who died on that date and found a “Godlove Wise”. Sadly, there is no link for this record to view the death certificate. But you can sometimes find transcriptions through record searches on FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch is run by the LDS Church who are very focused on documentation of ancestry.
Weiss is German, and is pronouced “Wise”. The name literal is a literal translation from German to English, so the name is supposed to written Gottliebe (with an ‘e’ for female) Weiss. The only way I know it was female was a record on FamilySearch for a newspaper record, that simply says
“Weiss- At Vancouver, on Nov. 2nd, Mrs. G. Weiss.”
That ASD Mom 