Rebecca Bobor

Ancestors

Daughter of [private father (1940s - unknown)] and [private mother (unknown - unknown)]

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Biography

I was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1965. My maternal grandparents were of Scots/English and Acadian descent. My paternal grandparents emigrated from Hungary in the 1920s. I have about 55,000 matches on Ancestry, of which about 90% of these matches are through the Acadians, most likely because of the mtDNA through my maternal grandmother. I have to say, I was nearly overwhelmed when I saw that ‘X2b4’, irrefutably establishing me as one more link on that long unbroken chain, from mother to daughter, back to Radegonde Lambert at Port Royal. As my dear long-suffering cousin David would say, the DNA never lies. My maternal grandfather I never knew. He was killed in the mine at Springhill, May 02, 1956, a single man accident, crushed by a rockfall, almost exactly 6 months before the explosion later that year that killed 39. RIP to all of them, and bless every miner who gave their health, their life, or both in any mine anywhere. I’m proud of my grandmother for stepping out into the unknown and making the move to Ontario to make a new life for my mother and my aunt. I’m proud of my paternal grandparents as well, leaving behind their home, their culture, their language and their families so that they too could make a new life for their descendants (and working their butts off to do so). My interest right now is primarily centred around Westmorland and Cumberland/Pictou Counties. I’m fascinated by all of the connections between the Acadians and (more recently) the Yorkshire Migration, but I have connections to all of the waves of settlers that followed the Acadians, including the Palatinate Germans. I wish I knew more about my connections to the First Peoples who were here before the Acadians. I also wish I knew more about my connections in Eastern Europe, but sadly my ability to read Hungarian is ‘limited’, to say the least. I do however read French, and I spend a fair amount of time finding “lost Acadians” in the NS Archives, as well as sometimes (the same process in reverse) “lost Englishmen” in the NB Archives. I’ve had some success locating records that were previously considered “unfindable”, please feel free to reach out if you’re stuck, I’ll do my best to help🙏

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Rebecca Bobor at registration.

See also:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Legere-509 (Maternal grandmother)