MY STORY First off, you wouldn’t be here unless you had some connection to the name of McManemy. Right? When I started researching my maiden name I did it because I knew so little about my father’s side of the family and this mystery peaked my interest as I grew older. I will admit that I waited until most of his family was gone before I ventured into this thing called Genealogy, which, as we all know, is a huge mistake. Even the word was foreign to me. The only living close relative was my first cousin, my uncle’s daughter and I didn’t even know where she lived now. So where do you start? I started from where I last knew she had lived, but that was years ago when I was still a child! Would she still be there?. I was so inexperienced in how to find someone that I wrote the Chamber of Commerce , luckily it was a small town, and they knew of my uncle and his family. We got together through letters and my interest grew from there. Her mother and father were deceased and she new very little about the family line, in fact, less then I did! We did have many childhood memories though as I had lived near her until I was ten. My next move was to go where I was told had the most information and help for someone like me, the Family History Center run by the LDS or Latter Day Saints. I filled out a Pedigree chart with what little I knew about my McManemy family and they pointed me in the right direction. I started with the 1900 Census from the area in the state of Washington where I knew they had lived and lo and behold, there they were! But I was in for another surprise. They hadn’t been born in the USA at all but Canada. With nothing but Canada to go on I started first in British Columbia which of course was the closest to Washington but could find nothing there so just by luck and thinking that Ontario has the largest English speaking population I reached clear across Canada into Ontario and found them in a small town called Oxley in Essex Co. The rest is history! I was addicted! This is my story. What is yours? I always knew that with a name like McManemy I had to be of Irish or Scotch descent so I sent for the Canadian census of 1851 for Essex County where my Grandparents were from hoping to find more information about their parents and this is where I discovered that we all came from an Irishman named John who came over from Ireland ( I am still searching just where in Ireland,) before 1837 and married a Scotch lady name Hannah Buchanan. I later found out on an 1870 Census from Saginaw, Michigan that after his second Canadian wife died he moved there and on that Census he stated his father was from Scotland. So there is more of my tie-in to Scotland! My tie to Great Britain is through my 3rd G Grandfather Thomas Rumble who was from Newton Toney, Wiltshire, England and my 3rd G Grandfather John Ridsdale and Henry Wright my 4th G Grandfather. I am still researching them! My G Grandfather Robert was born in Canada and my father was born in the USA in Dufur, Wasco Co. Oregon near Portland, Oregon so there is the story of my heritage in a nutshell!. As I stated before, “What’s yours?” Please visit my Guest Book and write your name, E Mail address and something about who you are searching for and maybe someone with our same name or it’s variants will see it and write you back with just your missing twig or if you are lucky, a whole branch! Good luck and thanks for visiting. Website and graphics by