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The Card family Follow Lester’s life back through the Cardston generation and the older Card research.
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Evidence varies by relationship. The older colonial ladder is not described as a verified line.
Lester’s radio call sign, VE6CA, is the starting point. His memorial opens a story of aviation, family, teaching, geology, and the generations before him.
Sources: Lester Charles Card: VE6CA memorial The family’s Alberta history took place on lands already home to Indigenous communities. The archive treats settlement as a historical subject to investigate, alongside migration and family memory, rather than as an empty-land origin story.
Sources: Charles Ora Card: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Meet the family
People in this branch Living relative
The family archive begins with Jacob and follows the people and records behind his family.
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Living relative
Carol connects the present family with Lester and Jean’s Card and Nelson lines.
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Living relative
Emad is part of the present family from which this archive is being assembled.
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1919–2015
Airman, teacher, geologist, and radio amateur: Lester’s call sign gives VE6.CA its name.
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c. 1921–2019
Jean brings the Nelson family’s Cardston story into the Card family archive.
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1885–1956
Joseph’s story connects the early Cardston household with the next generations of the family.
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1889–1982
Pearl is the starting point for the archive’s Christensen and Scandinavian research.
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1839–1906
Charles’s life links the family’s New York and Utah history with the settlement of Cardston.
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1850–1931
Zina’s education, family life, and public work connect the Young and Card branches.
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1814–1900
A craftsman and migrant, Cyrus links Charles Ora Card to the earlier family in the eastern United States.
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1819–1894
Sarah’s documented family life is clearer than the question of who her parents were.
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17th century
Richard is the oldest named Card research anchor currently shown in this archive.
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Dates under research
Leona belongs to the earlier marriage chapter of Joseph Young Card’s life.
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1787–1846
William Fuller is the first step in the researched ladder behind Cyrus Card.
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1793–1864
Sarah Sabin belongs to the older Card household before the family’s western migration.
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Dates under research
Elisha Card is one of the intermediate generations in the researched Card ladder.
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Dates under research
William Card is one of the intermediate generations in the researched Card ladder.
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Dates under research
Peleg Card is one of the intermediate generations in the researched Card ladder.
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Dates under research
James Card is one of the intermediate generations in the researched Card ladder.
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Dates under research
Emma is a research subject in the Utah-period Card household.
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Dates under research
Nancy appears in an unconfirmed report of a later relationship with Cyrus Card.
Research lead
The connections
Family relationships Parentage and marriage are shown separately. Competing parentage claims are labelled as disputed.
Parent and child
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Immediate family relationship supplied by the family.
Sources: Family recollections and relationships Parent and child
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Immediate family relationship supplied by the family.
Sources: Family recollections and relationships Marriage
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Relationship recorded in the family framework.
Sources: Family recollections and relationships Parent and child
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Recent family memorial material and the family account support this relationship.
Sources: Lester Charles Card: VE6CA memorial · Family recollections and relationships Parent and child
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Recent family memorial material and the family account support this relationship.
Sources: Lester Charles Card: VE6CA memorial · Family recollections and relationships Marriage
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Lester’s QCWA memorial identifies Jean as his wife.
Sources: Lester Charles Card: VE6CA memorial Parent and child
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Lincoln Card’s obituary provides collateral support by naming this parent pair and Lester as a sibling; Lester’s own birth or household record is still sought.
Sources: Lincoln John Card obituary · VE6.CA relationship evidence review Parent and child
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Lincoln Card’s obituary provides collateral support by naming this parent pair and Lester as a sibling; Lester’s own birth or household record is still sought.
Sources: Lincoln John Card obituary · VE6.CA relationship evidence review Marriage
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The institutional biographical records record their marriage in 1913.
Sources: Joseph Young Card: biographical record · Pearl Eliza Christensen: biographical record Marriage
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A documentary-edition annotation records the earlier marriage; the ending remains unresolved.
Sources: Emmeline B. Wells diary, June 1908 Parent and child
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Joseph’s institutional biography names this parent.
Sources: Joseph Young Card: biographical record Parent and child
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Joseph’s institutional biography names this parent.
Sources: Joseph Young Card: biographical record Marriage
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Institutional and documentary-edition biographies support this marriage.
Sources: Zina Presendia Young Williams Card · Charles Ora Card: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Parent and child
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Institutional and published historical accounts identify the parent-child relationship.
Sources: Charles Ora Card: biographical record · On the Western Frontier Parent and child
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Institutional and published historical accounts identify the parent-child relationship.
Sources: Charles Ora Card: biographical record · On the Western Frontier Marriage
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Institutional and published histories support the couple; the exact marriage-place claim remains open.
Sources: Sarah Ann Tuttle: biographical record · On the Western Frontier Marriage
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A reported marriage or sealing and a household lead await direct record review.
Sources: VE6.CA family research notes, April 2026 Marriage
Research lead
A reported plural-marriage connection has not yet been anchored to an inspected original record.
Sources: VE6.CA family research notes, April 2026 Parent and child
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Published context and compiled research support a working connection, with original household/probate evidence still needed.
Sources: On the Western Frontier · Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder Parent and child
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Published context and compiled research support a working connection, with original household/probate evidence still needed.
Sources: On the Western Frontier · Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder Marriage
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The published family history identifies this older household.
Sources: On the Western Frontier Parent and child
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This is a step in the compiled colonial ladder, not a completed original-record proof.
Sources: Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder Parent and child
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This is a step in the compiled colonial ladder, not a completed original-record proof.
Sources: Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder Parent and child
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This is a step in the compiled colonial ladder, not a completed original-record proof.
Sources: Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder Parent and child
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This is a step in the compiled colonial ladder, not a completed original-record proof.
Sources: Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder Parent and child
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This is a step in the compiled colonial ladder, not a completed original-record proof.
Sources: Lester to Richard Card: compiled research ladder Where the questions lead
Related research trails Unverified research
An online-tree trail reaches beyond the colonial Card research into Iberian names.
Questions still open Complete the original-record packet for Lester’s parentage. Resolve the conflicting dates and source chains in the colonial generations. Follow the evidence
Sources for this branch Published local history
A period biography used to investigate Joseph’s business and civic life.
Scholarly history
Donald G. Godfrey describes the Card family’s work, migrations, and nineteenth-century life.
Compiled research
The April 2026 research ladder names all intermediate generations between Cyrus William Card and Richard Card.
Research dossier
The compiled branch identifies possible Danish, Swedish, and later Norwegian routes behind Pearl’s family.
Documentary-edition biography
Identifies Zina’s parents, marriages, and public life.
Published primary document
A letter presented in a documentary edition, with historical notes.
Institutional biography
Records Charles’s family and pioneer history.
Institutional biography
The Church History Biographical Database records Joseph’s parents, life dates, and marriage to Pearl.
Institutional biography
Records Pearl’s life dates, marriage, and parents Joseph Mads Christensen and Emma Christensen.
Institutional biography
Records Sarah’s 1819–1894 life, marriage to Cyrus, and 1856 journey with the Edmund Ellsworth company.
Research notes
The project’s individual notes, evidence summaries, family imports, and unresolved questions.
Scholarly biography
Biographical treatment of Charles’s Utah life, plural marriage, and work in southern Alberta.
Documentary-edition note
The editorial apparatus identifies Joseph Young Card’s marriage to Leona Bertha Ballantyne.
Family knowledge
Names and immediate relationships supplied by the family and retained in the research notes.
Collaborative genealogy
An online family profile used as a pointer to Cyrus’s household and earlier Card generations.
Compiled family history
A substantial family-history volume listed in the FamilySearch Digital Library.
Obituary
Names Joseph Young Card and Pearl Eliza Christensen as Lincoln’s parents and Lester among his siblings.
Obituary
The funeral-home memorial entry identifies Jean and gives her death date as April 9, 2019.
Obituary
The funeral-home memorial entry identifies Lester and gives his death date.
Memorial
A memorial preserving Lester’s family, RCAF service, later work, and amateur-radio identity.
Editorial evidence review
Relationship-by-relationship review of the modern family, Card, Young, and Tuttle paths.
Unresolved research question
Preserves the Jesse Tuttle/Dinah Holcomb Gillett and Daniel Tuttle/Elizabeth Babb hypotheses.
Compiled genealogy
A compiled family page used for collateral Nelson and Hanson/Hansen connections.