My name is Lori LaRee Orr Thomas. I grew up in Orton, Alberta, Canada on a farm. My passion for family history was something instilled in me when I was 11 years old from my grandmother, Viola Roberts Orr. When I was a child she would tell me details about the ancestors she knew, and show me photographs of them. I loved it! I get great satisfaction at this point in my life carrying on that same legacy and discovering new details and facts about our family; who they were and how they lived. It's as important for me to tell my grandchildren about those ancestors that I knew, as it was for my grandmother to tell me! The legacy continues...