My first interest in genealogy began in 1979, when I first came down from Whitehorse to live in Vancouver.    I had the time to really examine The Lucas Book, and found it fascinating.   We’ve had it in the family for many years, but it was the first time I remember really having a good look at it and I was fascinated by it.

I took a night school course on family history at the University of British Columbia in 1979 from Tom and Gretha Warren. The course was just perfect for me, emphasizing the many resources of this large research library, and as well, the timing was just perfect for me. I had the time, the interest and the right personality to be keen on all the library research. I’d been a teacher librarian in Whitehorse, and now that I think about it, I wonder if that was the beginnings of my real interest in research that led me to enroll in the Master of Library Science program at UBC many years later.

Tom and Greta Warren were terrific teachers. Each week they focussed on a different type of biographical information that was available at UBC. Fortunately for me, the Lucas Family was just on the edges of that social strata where it was possible to find written records.

That winter I really got started and wrote letters to people in England, and spent hours at the genealogical library at Aberthau and in Burnaby at the Mormon library. In all this the Lucas Book was a terrific help, as really all I was trying to do was flesh it out and verify things.