Vol 52 No 2 May 2013
The
spring edition of the Ontario Genealogical Society Families has just been published,
and there are five papers in this issue.
The
first paper is the 4th place winner of this year’s Keffer Writing
Contest Tracing 19th Century Homesteading with 21st
Century Google Earth by David Harper.
He
demonstrates how one can use Goggle Maps to trace land grants so that you can
see the land grants actually owned by your ancestors.
The
surname covered by this paper are HARPER, GRAHAM, WHITBY, MCCONNELL, TABER,
WALKER. The places are KITCHENER,
PICKERING, WHITBY, COUNTY KILKENNY, IRELAND.
The
second paper is by Sarah Coates named Identifying a Photograph’s Age Based on
Women’s Fashion, in which she gives excellent examples of the photos taken of
her family to illustrates the point.
Sarah
Ann and Her Daughters by Sandra Lewis tell the life of her great-grandfather’s
sister Sarah Ann Argyle, and her four daughters, two of whom were sent to
Canada as Home Children by the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society.
Discovering
the Enigma of “James Boyer” by Partrick Boyer is a true to life turn of the 19th
century mystery story of a man who emigrated from England, to New York, and
then to Muskoka, Ontario.
The
keywords are BOYER, JEFFS, BILLINGSLEY, SAVAGE, WILLIAMS THE PLACENAMES ARE
MORTON-IN-MARSH, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, BRACEBRIDGE, MUSKOKA.
And
the last paper is The Courtice Family from Devonshire to Darlington and Their
Bible Christian Connection by James M. Bowen in which he tells of a a brief
history of the children of John and Mary Courtice, who has immigrated to Canada from England.
Some
of the keywords are ANNIS, CONANT, ASTON, COLLEY, CORY, COURTICE, FAWCETT,
FREEMAN, HOLLWAY, JENKINS, JENNINGS, LANE, MASON, PHILLIPS, RUNDLE, SCORE,
TENEYCK, THORNE, TREMEIRE, VENEY.
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