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Brant Gibbard Obituary
Memories and Condolences
for Brant Gibbard
12 Entries
W Fenwick
July 2, 2025
They say you die twice -- once when you shed your earthly sheaf, and once when people last speak your name. Given the impact Brant had on so many people with lines back to the Wagars of Lennox and Addington, I think Brant shall always remain in the minds and hearts of all his distant relatives. He touched so many of us through his selfless research and his gift of his genealogy database bgibbard.ca. Rest In Peace, Brant, and Thank-You for enlightening me and so many of your cousins left behind to peruse your work which is archived forever in Frontenac County.
Julie Batzloff
November 24, 2023
Wow, I met Brant Gibbard years ago in Canada while doing my research on my Cronk family. I liked his genealogy webpage so much. I did the same for my tree. Sad to say I didn't stay in touch with him in the last few years. So, it was a surprise he passed on....Will always appreciate him and his help in the genealogy world.
Peace
Julie Batzloff
Waterford, MI
Evelyn Jepson
August 1, 2023
I met Brant doing Wagar genealogy, as my late uncle Harry Ross Wagar, wanted it looked up...he was a valuable asset to anyone looking up trees, and will be missed, I only found out about this now, I had wondered why he wasn't online anymore...a terrible loss
Eric (Rick) Moorhouse
July 21, 2023
I, too, am very sorry to learn just now of Brant's passing. Brant and I, at age 10, were best friends, attending George Street Public School in Aurora, Ontario. On a typical Saturday morning I would head over to Brant's house on Harriman Road (we lived on George Street). I loved to hear the classical records his mother played while Brant and I discussed philately, the space programme, vertebrate paleontology, and the chess games of the masters. A favourite memory of mine was a trip down to Toronto one evening, three of us in the car (Brant and I, along with Brant's mother Ann, who was driving) to see my all-time favourite movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, when it was just released in 1968. My passion for that movie is inextricably linked to the discussion we had in the car on the drive back home, with Ann asking us what we thought the movie meant. I remember this as the most stimulating conversation I had ever experienced. Thank you!
We both moved around several times since then, and I'm sorry we didn't manage to keep in touch.
Alice Bailey
March 15, 2023
I am so sorry to just learn of Brant's passing. He had such a wonderful website and I was so disappointed when it wasn't there any more. I did not know Brant had passed away until I just happened to find it yesterday. He was so knowledgeable about genealogy, and I have always missed the site he had. There was so much of my family that he had researched {Asselstine}.
Acacia Williams
December 26, 2022
Like many others, I had the pleasure of "meeting" Brant (way back in 2010) online as I tried to work through my family's genealogy. Through our mutual efforts, I discovered that I am his 6th cousin, once removed. I wish now that I had been able to devote more time to my research. We always think we will have more time--until, suddenly, we don't.
I am so sad that all of his work seems to be lost to his larger "family" now. I know from my clumsy attempts at putting together my immediate portion of the family tree just how much time and effort this takes! It is hard to believe that he wouldn't want the legacy of his hard work preserved and shared.
I realize now how little I really knew about Brant. I did not know, for example, that he was a librarian. I wish I had known and I wish that I had been able to share with him that I am going to school to become a librarian, too; I will graduate with my MLIS next semester, in fact. I wonder where he went to library school? I wish I could talk to him about it.
Most of all, I wish peace and healing to Brant's closest family and friends. You should know that he made a difference in the lives of lots of people he was only distantly related to with the work that he did on our collective family history. He was generous with his knowledge and he was curious and open and kind to those of us who were just starting this hard work. More people than you know will miss Brant and his contributions. I hope you see these messages and they help.
Leslie Einhorn
April 16, 2022
I am so sorry to hear of Brant's passing. We connected briefly as I researched our common Powley ancestors. His work was meticulous and I trusted his advise above all others. I do hope all his work will be preserved. I do not believe that the end of our bodies is the end of our lives. Maybe I will get to meet him on the other side of this life.
Philip Gibbard
March 6, 2022
I have just learned of the unfortunate death of Brant. I never met him but we were in contact beginning in 2010 in connection with Brant's genealogical researches. We were also in contact with Glen Gibbard. In an e-mail exchange Brant commented "Glen's and my own family of Gibbards are also from Padbury, so it is highly likely that we are indeed related distantly in the male line" (9.01. 2010). We remained in touch for sometime, exchanging Christmas greetings until a few years ago.
I offer my condolences to his family for their loss and I join others who have expressed the hope that his genealogical studies will be continued.
Cambridge, England
Phyllis Chapman
February 2, 2022
My sincerest condolences to Brant's family and friends on their loss. While searching for my Ruttan ancestors, I was a frequent visitor to Brant's website, before it was taken down. I hope that his genealogy work is being preserved somehow. The Ontario Genealogy Society may be able to help with that if the family wishes it.
Jim Keller
January 24, 2022
I would like to give my sincere condolence to Brant's family and friends. We had many many Email discussions over the years on the genealogy front with us both related to the Keller and Powley line. Brant was always friendly and helpful. I have missed our Email discussions.
Peter and Sharon Devana
January 20, 2022
We would like to offer our sincerest condolences to the Family and Friends of Brant Gibbard.Although we never met him in person Sharon ,a genealogist herself, found through his research that my Family (Devana) were distantly related. I shared John Freeman and Jane Ruttan as our 4th great grandparents.
Jo-Anne
January 18, 2022
I met Brant at 801 Bay St. and enjoyed visiting him at College Park and the condo. He was a scholar, librarian, oenophile, genealogist and a friend. He is missed.
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