Yes, it has been a while since my last post.  In my defence, life has thrown a couple of curveballs making it very difficult to get together to do video interviews.  The interviews could have been done by video conference call but what fun is that!

The first person I wanted to interview I was not able to visit in person for over a year.  As COVID-19 restrictions in BC were lifted during the past month or so, I decided to plan a visit with my parents in 100 Mile House, BC.  Once there, the first of three interviews were done but then 100 Mile House received an evacuation alert.  As both my parents are of an age to have concerns with the forest fire situations, concerns were raised. If ordered to evacuate, they would have been told to go North which they did not want to do.  So, we packed up within an hour and headed South to safety and less smoke in the air.

I was able to complete the other two interviews before my parents returned to their home (hopefully not to be warned to possibly evacuate again).

Next week, the first of the three interviews with my dad, Grant, will be posted. Grant is the oldest of three to Stanley and Irene Briggs. The other interviews will be posted at a later date.  I hope the interview will give everyone a chance to get to know my dad a little bit more than they did before and may help to start conversations or inspire more questions which I’m more than happy to ask in future interviews or call him up and ask him yourself!

In the meantime, let’s take a closer look at the Briggs Family Tree.  Below is a snapshot of the Briggs line going back as far as 1583.  I have found earlier dates, but they have yet to be confirmed and authenticated.  Although some of the dates have not been confirmed, they are pretty close to the majority of the information I was able to find.

As you can see, there are many duplicate names, and some names that are in our family today.  I’m still doing research on more information of the family line.  As you can imagine, there are a lot of documents to go through to verify the information is accurate and pertains to our line.  From Thomas Briggs (1775 – 1840) and onwards, the Briggs’ settled in Canada.  Those before, were from England (so far!).

Interesting to note, sometime in the early 1600s, the spelling of the Briggs name changed from Brigge.  Historical documents show the Brigge name had descendants as early as 1250 in the Yorkshire area of England.  The majority of the descendants found from 1583 to the early 1800s, lived in the Yorkshire area.

As I am able to garner more information and verification of documents, more will be posted on the We Are Family Briggs blog.

As I mentioned in earlier blog posts, I’m hoping to travel to the United Kingdom in about two to three years with the hopes of trying to verify more information that I have found.

Again, if anyone is interested in going through the Briggs ancestry research with me, I would be ecstatic to have someone beside me discovering more about our family! So please let me know if you are interested. Maybe we can travel together as well!

Enjoy and I hope there are some comments regarding the family tree.