For anyone interested in Canada's legal history from a family historian point of view, The Osgood Society for Legal History is a website that you should look at www.osgoodesociety.ca
The society was founded in 1979, and now they have a blog on which they present the "News and Views" at http://osgoodesocietycanadianlegalhistory.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html
In the blog, they have obituaries online e.g. they have put on the obituary of John T. Saywell (1921-2011); they give a short history of the Chinese-Canadian Legal History; they write about Native History in the Court; and offer Links to Western Legal History – all interesting subjects for the family historian.
They have also published books, two of which are The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, and The Law of the Land: The advent of the Torrens System in Canada.
They also have done a number of oral histories which are listed by name at www.osgoodesociety.ca/oral_history/oral_history_a.html. Some of the people that have been interviewed are The Hon. Lincoln Alexander, The Hon. John Arnup, and The Hon. George Addy.
Although the oral histories are not online, you can contact them at mmacfarl@lsuc.on.ca for membership, or to ask a question.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Celebrate War of 1812 in Eastern Ontario
If you go to http://celebrate1812.ca, you will come across the St. Lawrence War of 1812: Bicentennial Alliance.
There were military actions at Gananoque and Clayton, Brockville and Morristown, Prescott on the Ontario side, and at Ogdensburg on the American side. There were naval bases at Kingston in Ontario, and Sackets Harbor across the St. Lawrence in Upper New York State.
From October 1813 to February 1814, two major battles were fought at Châteauguay River in October and Crysler’s Farm in November.
There is a newsletter called "News From the Front," plus a blog which carries stories about the War of 1812 along both sides on Lake Ontario.
If you belong to a group of The St. Lawrence War of 1812 Alliance, or would like to start a group, you can have have your own page at http://celebrate1812.ca/main/authorization/signUp?target=http%3A%2F%2Fcelebrate1812.ca%2Fprofiles.
There are numerous forums on the site, plus a 1812 Related Events page which will tell you of the events which will take place close to home to those of us who live in the Ottawa area. They look very exciting, so make your plans to attend.
For the address for the 1812 Events, go to http://celebrate1812.ca/events.
They also have a Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Lawrence-War-of-1812-Bicentennial-Alliance/238037636247432
For more websites, you can go to -
For Wellington in the War of 1812: Guarding the St. Lawrence http://www.warof1812.ca/fortwellington.htm
War Along the Upper St. Lawrence and the Canadian Regiment, 1812-1814 http://www.warof1812.ca/stlawrence1812.htm
The War of 1812: St. Lawrence Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&vpsrc=6&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=215700894247827788391.0004ab467ae636134d38c
The Google Map highlights the various battles that took place around Eastern Ontario, Upper New York State, and Vermont.
There were military actions at Gananoque and Clayton, Brockville and Morristown, Prescott on the Ontario side, and at Ogdensburg on the American side. There were naval bases at Kingston in Ontario, and Sackets Harbor across the St. Lawrence in Upper New York State.
From October 1813 to February 1814, two major battles were fought at Châteauguay River in October and Crysler’s Farm in November.
There is a newsletter called "News From the Front," plus a blog which carries stories about the War of 1812 along both sides on Lake Ontario.
If you belong to a group of The St. Lawrence War of 1812 Alliance, or would like to start a group, you can have have your own page at http://celebrate1812.ca/main/authorization/signUp?target=http%3A%2F%2Fcelebrate1812.ca%2Fprofiles.
There are numerous forums on the site, plus a 1812 Related Events page which will tell you of the events which will take place close to home to those of us who live in the Ottawa area. They look very exciting, so make your plans to attend.
For the address for the 1812 Events, go to http://celebrate1812.ca/events.
They also have a Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Lawrence-War-of-1812-Bicentennial-Alliance/238037636247432
For more websites, you can go to -
For Wellington in the War of 1812: Guarding the St. Lawrence http://www.warof1812.ca/fortwellington.htm
War Along the Upper St. Lawrence and the Canadian Regiment, 1812-1814 http://www.warof1812.ca/stlawrence1812.htm
The War of 1812: St. Lawrence Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&vpsrc=6&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=215700894247827788391.0004ab467ae636134d38c
The Google Map highlights the various battles that took place around Eastern Ontario, Upper New York State, and Vermont.
Monday, December 5, 2011
New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 14
Here are some of the websites and blogs that I have come across the week ending December 4, 2011
Cemetery Photo Album of St. Peter's Cemetery London, Ontario http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bertrandtree/Cemetery-Photo-Gallery.html This has taken up the time of a newly-retired person, and they hope that it can be of help to others. There are photos of the tombstones in this cemetery in London, Ontario. You can contact them at cancamrand@execulink.com.
Acadian Descendants: Surviving Damnation http://www.benoitbooks.com. This is a website devoted to the history of the 1755 Deportation from Acadia. The book tells the true story of the BENOIT family, descendants of Martin, to illustrate the trials and tribulations experienced by the Acadians.
War Diaries: Discover what individuals or military units during the war http://thediscoverblog.com/2011/11/30/war-diaries-discover-what-individuals-or-military-units-did-during-the-war Library and Archives Canada has just posted a new blog at their site about war diaries.
Our Ontario www.ourontario.ca/demo/News.html Although Our Ontario was covered in my blog post of Historical Online Newspapers in Canada www.genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2011/11/historical-online-newspapers-in-canada.html, they also have this demo site which has newspapers around the province which may have not been covered in the previous posts.
Maple Leaf Legacy Project http://www.mapleleaflegacy.ca/wp As the website says, "The Maple Leaf Legacy Project is an enormous volunteer endeavour to procure a photograph of each and every Canadian War Grave from the South African War (1899-1902), World War 1 (1914-18), World War II (1939-45), Korean War (1950-52) and all United Nations Peacekeeping Missions to the present day conflict in Afghanistan."
The Udell Family www.udellfamily.ca/Udall_%26_Udell_Family_Site/Welcome.html The Udell family came to Canada in 1787. Trace their history through this site, and in the article in the York Ancestors Newsletter of the York Region of the OGS at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onyrbogs.
My Journey Back http://jacqueline-journeyback.blogspot.com NEW! Jacqueline Foster writes about her family in Nova Scotia. She just celebrated her 1st blogiversary in November – Congratulations!
Norma-Jean's Genealogy Blog http://njbgenealogy.blogspot.com She says, "This blog will be used to announce changes to my Benoy Family web site and to keep the family informed of my genealogical research activities.". She also has a webpage on the Benoy Family at www.benoy.ca/TNG/index.php
1894 - 1895 Town of Ingersoll Directory www.ocl.net/genealogy/directory This directory gives the name, their occupation, and their address.
Prince of Wales Immigration list 1813 http://tmsnyder.tripod.com/PW_LIST.htm The Prince of Wales left June 28 1813 from Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, and arrived two months later at York Factory on the western shore of Hudson's Bay.
Cemetery Photo Album of St. Peter's Cemetery London, Ontario http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bertrandtree/Cemetery-Photo-Gallery.html This has taken up the time of a newly-retired person, and they hope that it can be of help to others. There are photos of the tombstones in this cemetery in London, Ontario. You can contact them at cancamrand@execulink.com.
Acadian Descendants: Surviving Damnation http://www.benoitbooks.com. This is a website devoted to the history of the 1755 Deportation from Acadia. The book tells the true story of the BENOIT family, descendants of Martin, to illustrate the trials and tribulations experienced by the Acadians.
War Diaries: Discover what individuals or military units during the war http://thediscoverblog.com/2011/11/30/war-diaries-discover-what-individuals-or-military-units-did-during-the-war Library and Archives Canada has just posted a new blog at their site about war diaries.
Our Ontario www.ourontario.ca/demo/News.html Although Our Ontario was covered in my blog post of Historical Online Newspapers in Canada www.genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2011/11/historical-online-newspapers-in-canada.html, they also have this demo site which has newspapers around the province which may have not been covered in the previous posts.
Maple Leaf Legacy Project http://www.mapleleaflegacy.ca/wp As the website says, "The Maple Leaf Legacy Project is an enormous volunteer endeavour to procure a photograph of each and every Canadian War Grave from the South African War (1899-1902), World War 1 (1914-18), World War II (1939-45), Korean War (1950-52) and all United Nations Peacekeeping Missions to the present day conflict in Afghanistan."
The Udell Family www.udellfamily.ca/Udall_%26_Udell_Family_Site/Welcome.html The Udell family came to Canada in 1787. Trace their history through this site, and in the article in the York Ancestors Newsletter of the York Region of the OGS at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onyrbogs.
My Journey Back http://jacqueline-journeyback.blogspot.com NEW! Jacqueline Foster writes about her family in Nova Scotia. She just celebrated her 1st blogiversary in November – Congratulations!
Norma-Jean's Genealogy Blog http://njbgenealogy.blogspot.com She says, "This blog will be used to announce changes to my Benoy Family web site and to keep the family informed of my genealogical research activities.". She also has a webpage on the Benoy Family at www.benoy.ca/TNG/index.php
1894 - 1895 Town of Ingersoll Directory www.ocl.net/genealogy/directory This directory gives the name, their occupation, and their address.
Prince of Wales Immigration list 1813 http://tmsnyder.tripod.com/PW_LIST.htm The Prince of Wales left June 28 1813 from Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, and arrived two months later at York Factory on the western shore of Hudson's Bay.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Guild of One-Name Studies
The Guild of One-Name Studies (GONS) was started in England a number of years ago, and has steadily grown to where it is today - "the researching of all occurrences of a surname, as opposed to a particular pedigree (ancestors of one person) or descendancy (descendants of one person or couple)".
This can be the surnames that are derived from a geographical area, or from an occupation, or a patronymic-type surname, such as Johnson.
On their website, they have 7850 surnames which you can check to see if your name is there, a Member's Room which you can use when you become a member, and a webpage on which the members can give the surname that interested them, the variants of the surname, origin of the surname, the frequency of the name, data (in what countries the surname appears), DNA project, and the contact details if you want to contact them.
In Ottawa, we are are very fortunate to have a good genealogist in Elizabeth Kipp, who is the Eastern Canada Regional Representative for the Guild of One-Name Studies.
She has the latest knowledge about the one-name studies, has been to England on countless occasions, and if you have ever had the opportunity to read about her research trips to Salt Lake City, and other research facilities throughout Canada, the US and the UK, like myself, you would have to agree that she has a complete understanding of an organization such as the Guild of One-Name Studies and how they can help you to understand where your surname originated.
Elizabeth's email is kippeeb@rogers.com. She also has her own website on the Blakes at www.one-name.org/profiles/blake.html as well as a blog, English Research from Canada, at http://kippeeb.blogspot.com.
I guess I will have to rectify the omission of my two surnames in the study because they are not in the database – BARCLAY of Scotland, and BLADES of England.
The website of the Guild of One-Name Studies is http://www.one-name.org
This can be the surnames that are derived from a geographical area, or from an occupation, or a patronymic-type surname, such as Johnson.
On their website, they have 7850 surnames which you can check to see if your name is there, a Member's Room which you can use when you become a member, and a webpage on which the members can give the surname that interested them, the variants of the surname, origin of the surname, the frequency of the name, data (in what countries the surname appears), DNA project, and the contact details if you want to contact them.
In Ottawa, we are are very fortunate to have a good genealogist in Elizabeth Kipp, who is the Eastern Canada Regional Representative for the Guild of One-Name Studies.
She has the latest knowledge about the one-name studies, has been to England on countless occasions, and if you have ever had the opportunity to read about her research trips to Salt Lake City, and other research facilities throughout Canada, the US and the UK, like myself, you would have to agree that she has a complete understanding of an organization such as the Guild of One-Name Studies and how they can help you to understand where your surname originated.
Elizabeth's email is kippeeb@rogers.com. She also has her own website on the Blakes at www.one-name.org/profiles/blake.html as well as a blog, English Research from Canada, at http://kippeeb.blogspot.com.
I guess I will have to rectify the omission of my two surnames in the study because they are not in the database – BARCLAY of Scotland, and BLADES of England.
The website of the Guild of One-Name Studies is http://www.one-name.org
Tomorrow's Post - New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 14
Saturday, December 3, 2011
BIFHSGO's Great Moments in Genealogy
On Saturday, December 10th, from 10:00 am to 11:30 a.m. at the Library and Archives Canada, BIFHSGO (British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa) will present their annual "Christmas gift" for everyone - they will have four different topics presented by four different people.
The topics will be -
"How I Found 'Uncle Effie' While Helping to Research a WWII Pilot" by Mary Anne Sharpe
She will talk about how she was contacted by a genealogy researcher who was helping a Belgian man contact the families of several RAF airmen so he could round out the stories of the men who are buried in his local cemetery in Kaggevinne, Belgium.
Mary Anne will explain how she found out about the shooting down of a young WWII pilot from Sault Ste. Marie, the involvement in the search for information about the death of a man Mary Anne had always known as "Unle Effie", and how she found that both men were her cousins!
"Professor Robinson – Where did you come from?" by Roberta Kay
Professor William Robinson was the founder of the Department of Engineering, Mining, and Textile sections of the University College of Nottingham, England. Hear how she pieced together the life of her ancestor with a variety of resources, and which methods were used to uncover William's birth place.
"Revelations in a Paper Bag and a Shoe Box" by Anne Sterling
See how the discovery of inherited family photos and newly-found ones led her to meet various third- and fourth-cousins, and then do further research of a family in Fitzroy Township, Carleton County.
"Fun Boy, Fly Boy, My Reclusive Uncle" by Ted Lawrence
Kenneth Lawrence, born in 1918, was a fun-loving gregarious youngster, a practical joker, partier, and sports enthusiast in his high school years, and an inspired and courageous pilot during WWII.
This meeting is FREE, and if you haven't gone to a meeting before, BIFHSGO members would love to see you there. They are great people, and are eager to talk genealogy to you at the drop of a hat.
For more information, go to http://www.bifhsgo.ca/events.php
Friday, December 2, 2011
York Ancestors Newsletter
The November 2011 edition of the newsletter of the York Branch of the OGS, Ancestors, has been published. It continues with "The Udell Family of Markham, Pickering and Uxbridge (Part 2)" in which Walter Udell continues the story of the family through the middle- and late-1800s.
If you are interested, a website has been developed at www.udellfamily.ca.
At September's meeting, Rich Roberts from Global Genealogy talked about the latest edition of Family Tree Maker, and at the October meeting, Wes Playter talked about the Roadhouse & the Rose Funeral Home in Newmarket.
A Special Note: The York Branch will be celebrating their 15th year celebration in June. They are asking that if you have family history or photos that you would like to have featured at the party, email barbara.barr.ogs@gmail.com.
You can go to their website at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onyrbogs. The York Region covers the former York County minus the City of Toronto.
If you are interested in joining Ontario Genealogical Society and the York Branch, go to www.ogs.on.ca/membership.php.
If you are interested, a website has been developed at www.udellfamily.ca.
At September's meeting, Rich Roberts from Global Genealogy talked about the latest edition of Family Tree Maker, and at the October meeting, Wes Playter talked about the Roadhouse & the Rose Funeral Home in Newmarket.
A Special Note: The York Branch will be celebrating their 15th year celebration in June. They are asking that if you have family history or photos that you would like to have featured at the party, email barbara.barr.ogs@gmail.com.
You can go to their website at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onyrbogs. The York Region covers the former York County minus the City of Toronto.
If you are interested in joining Ontario Genealogical Society and the York Branch, go to www.ogs.on.ca/membership.php.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Archive CD Books Project
I have just received "The Archive CD Books Project" newsletter that Malcolm Moody, and his wife, Chris, send out each month. I look forward to seeing where they have been, what books they have scanned lately, and what events they will attend in the future. Their website is www.archivecdbooks.ca.
They have oodles of CDs for sales. They are not only very nice people, but are quite knowledgeable about Canadian and United Kingdom genealogy.
The project began in the United Kingdom in 2000, and Malcolm started the Canadian branch in 2003. They have been open for business since March 2004.
The newsletter is FREE (with lots of news), and you can subscribe at books@archivecdbooks.ca. They also have a Facebook page, where you can view pictures of the Kitchener Public Library’s First (Annual) Genealogy Fair -
Disclaimer: This is a business site, and while I have never received payment nor special consideration for this blog, I should mention that I have known Malcolm and Chris for a number of years, having attended the same conferences together, and as a customer.
Tomorrow's Post - The York Branch "Ancestors" newsletter
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Bourgeois Family/Histoire de Bourgeois
The website http://histoire-de-bourgeois.ca has developed a genealogical history, Histoire de Bourgeois - the genealogy and stories of Bourgeois' of Acadian descent. They are also have it on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120627851304544
Marc Bourgeois has been working on the Bourgeois Family for the past ten years, and he started researching when his mother asked him if he could look into their roots.
Marc says that “Although it took me a while to discover my Acadian roots once I discovered them, I began a multi-year project (now eight years and still going) to document as many of the Bourgeois descendants of my Acadian Ancestor as possible and to make that research available to other family historians via the web”.
He goes onto says that “The result is the “the-bourgeois-story.ca” site (bilingual) which documents over 13,000 Bourgeois’ from across north America, descendants of Jacques Jacob Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, married in 1643 in Port-Royal, Acadia. The site now has over 330 registered users (growing daily), and gets over a thousand hits a week”.
This is a bilingual site (F/E), and as Marc can tell, it is “the largest and most well documents (over 160,000 citations) Bourgeois family related site available on the Internet”.
So if you are related in any way to the Bourgeois Family, use the contact page at http://histoire-de-bourgeois.ca/suggest.php.
Tomorrow's Blog - The Archive CD Books Project
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Borders and Bridges:1812 to 2012 Conference
News Flash!
The program of the 2012 OGS Conference "Borders and Bridges:1812 to 2012" to be held in Kingston, Ontario the 1st to the 3rd of June has just been posted at http://www.ogs.on.ca/conference2012/program.
Details of the registration will be posted December 1st.
Historical Online Newspapers in Canada
I was having an email conversation the other day with a friend out in BC, and she was saying what a nice newspaper collection that the University of British Columbia has accumulated.
It got me thinking about newspapers and their importance in finding out local history of a place. So I put together this list.
Here is my attempt at summarizing the sites of digitized newspapers on the Internet -
British Columbia Historical Newspapers Project - www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/11/07/historical-b-c-newspapers-digitized-by-ubc library FREE! The site contains more than 45,000 pages of 24 historical BC newspapers. The newspapers date from 1865 to 1924.
Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online - http://librariesns.ca/content/newspaper-digitization FREE! The Halifax at Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management, and in Sydney at the Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University has put on the Internet over 19,000 pages of digitized newspaper content from sixteen newspapers dating from 1769 to 1991.
OurOntario.ca Community Newspapers - http://ink.ourontario.ca FREE! Thirty newspapers are digitized, with a special emphasis on historical newspapers from Kingston, Ontario.
Peel’s Praries Provinces (Newspapers) - http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers FREE! Over 80 western historical newspapers have been digitized.
The Early Alberta Newspaper Collection - www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr FREE! Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project is a project from the University of Calgary. The collection contains editions from 1880 to 1950.
Manitoba Newspapers - http://manitobia.ca/content/en/newspaperslist FREE! Contains over 30 newspapers. You can search by years and months, with some newspapers going up to the present-day.
Connecting Canada: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers Beta Website - www.connectingcanadians.org/?q=en/content/home FREE! The collection contains Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Latvian, and Lithuanian newspapers.
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) - www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadian-newspapers-french/index-e.html FREE! These are 230 newspaper titles from French-Canadian communities across Canada.
Digital collection: Newspapers - www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_numerique/index.html?language_id=1&categorie=6 -
FREE! These newspaper are at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and are published in French only.
There may have been some collections that I have missed. If you come across some other collections that have been put on the Internet and are FREE!, please let me know at genealogycanada@aol.com.
Tomorrow's Post - Histoire de Bourgeois - the genealogy and stories of Bourgeois' of Acadian descent
Monday, November 28, 2011
New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 13
Here are some of the websites and blogs that I have come across the week ending November 27, 2011 -
Welcome to Bill Gladstone - www.billgladstone.ca NEW! Bill Gladstone is a Toronto-based journalist, author, publisher, public speaker, and noted genealogist.
Oakville Memories - www.oakville-memories.info Although Bob Hughes hasn’t posted for a year, the posts that are online, and the names in those posts, may help someone with their ancestry.
Looking4Ancestors - www.looking4ancestors.com Started by Kathryn Lake started in 2008, she blogs on a consistent basis about genealogy in general.
Murmurd's Franco-American and Québec Genealogy - www.murmurd.blogspot.com An "AMERICAN in QUÉBEC"!, the blogger has been actively researching her French-Canadian roots in Canada.
The Kelowna & District Genealogical Society - www.kdgs.ca Their blog has been online since 2008, and they regularly update their upcoming events, as well as changes in their resources.
Welcome to the Library and Archives Canada Blog! - http://thediscoverblog.com NEW! A four-month trial blog has been initiated by the LAC for the staff to post articles of interest to all researchers.
Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen - http://staffordwilson.com
NEW! Arlene Stafford-Wilson is an author who grew up in Lanark County, and has produced a book about her mother and the recipes she used in the home where Arlene grew up.
The Jehan and Perrine Terriot Family Website - www.terriau.org A bilingual site (F/E) that is the website of the Terriot Acadian Family Society.
Welcome to the Leaves of my Tree - www.robinsancestry.com Robin Wallace has created this most entertaining website where she list over 2500 names of ancestors.
SaskResearch - www.saskresearch.com $ This website will help you to find your Saskatchewan ancestors.
Tomorrow Post: Historical Newspapers in Canada.
Welcome to Bill Gladstone - www.billgladstone.ca NEW! Bill Gladstone is a Toronto-based journalist, author, publisher, public speaker, and noted genealogist.
Oakville Memories - www.oakville-memories.info Although Bob Hughes hasn’t posted for a year, the posts that are online, and the names in those posts, may help someone with their ancestry.
Looking4Ancestors - www.looking4ancestors.com Started by Kathryn Lake started in 2008, she blogs on a consistent basis about genealogy in general.
Murmurd's Franco-American and Québec Genealogy - www.murmurd.blogspot.com An "AMERICAN in QUÉBEC"!, the blogger has been actively researching her French-Canadian roots in Canada.
The Kelowna & District Genealogical Society - www.kdgs.ca Their blog has been online since 2008, and they regularly update their upcoming events, as well as changes in their resources.
Welcome to the Library and Archives Canada Blog! - http://thediscoverblog.com NEW! A four-month trial blog has been initiated by the LAC for the staff to post articles of interest to all researchers.
Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen - http://staffordwilson.com
NEW! Arlene Stafford-Wilson is an author who grew up in Lanark County, and has produced a book about her mother and the recipes she used in the home where Arlene grew up.
The Jehan and Perrine Terriot Family Website - www.terriau.org A bilingual site (F/E) that is the website of the Terriot Acadian Family Society.
Welcome to the Leaves of my Tree - www.robinsancestry.com Robin Wallace has created this most entertaining website where she list over 2500 names of ancestors.
SaskResearch - www.saskresearch.com $ This website will help you to find your Saskatchewan ancestors.
Tomorrow Post: Historical Newspapers in Canada.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tweedsmuir Histories – Elgin County
Over the past number of years, Elgin County Archives has been digitizing the Tweedsmuir Histories of Elgin County.
When they first started at the Archives, there were 27 Tweedsmuir History volumes containing about 5000 pages. As they continued, the number of volumes increased to 50, covering over 7000 pages.
The people of the individual Women’s Institutes became the “unofficial archivists” of Ontario counties and districts. They constructed “scrapbooks”, and they present information about oral histories and photographs.
Looking at these books, there are “Family Trees”, “Pioneer Histories”, the history of schools, churches, businesses, and individual family histories. I don’t think that there are any such histories in the rest of Canada that can come up to this level of history written by ordinary people. It is, as their website says, “an outstanding resource on the history of rural Ontario”.
The counties covered are - Aldborough, Dunwich, Southwold, Yarmouth, Malahide, South Dorchester, Bayham, East Elgin, and West Elgin.
You can read them at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/index.html.
There is also a Photo Gallery at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/aldborough2.html
It was announced early in November that the Elgin County Archives received a donation of $6,000 from the Elgin County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. This donation will help complete the project, which is expected to be completed between January and May of 2012.
Tomorrow's Post - New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 13
When they first started at the Archives, there were 27 Tweedsmuir History volumes containing about 5000 pages. As they continued, the number of volumes increased to 50, covering over 7000 pages.
The people of the individual Women’s Institutes became the “unofficial archivists” of Ontario counties and districts. They constructed “scrapbooks”, and they present information about oral histories and photographs.
Looking at these books, there are “Family Trees”, “Pioneer Histories”, the history of schools, churches, businesses, and individual family histories. I don’t think that there are any such histories in the rest of Canada that can come up to this level of history written by ordinary people. It is, as their website says, “an outstanding resource on the history of rural Ontario”.
The counties covered are - Aldborough, Dunwich, Southwold, Yarmouth, Malahide, South Dorchester, Bayham, East Elgin, and West Elgin.
You can read them at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/index.html.
There is also a Photo Gallery at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/aldborough2.html
It was announced early in November that the Elgin County Archives received a donation of $6,000 from the Elgin County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. This donation will help complete the project, which is expected to be completed between January and May of 2012.
Tomorrow's Post - New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 13
Saturday, November 26, 2011
“Past Tents” – November Newsletter
“Past Tents”, the newsletter of the Thunder Bay Branch of the OGS, recently issued their November 2011 edition.
The Branch has a very interesting and eye-catching first page of their newsletter. Four times a year they highlight an “Ancestor of the Month”, and this month they are featuring Marion Belle Elliot.
Marion was born in 1898 in Morewood (near Ottawa), the daughter of Marion Henderson and Francis Elliot. She taught school in Thunder Bay, and although she wasn’t spoken of as a genealogist, she spent her summer going around Canada visiting relatives, and leaving the lists and pictures of their relatives.
The column, "Research Article", mentions going to a community called Tum Tum in Washington State where Paul McAlister found the tombstone of Robert Elsworth McAlistor. An interesting read!
In another article entitled “Why Mobert is Called Mobert”, we find out that the name is the contraction of C. S. Montizambert, a fellow who led men in 1885 Out West to help quell the Riel Rebellion.
You can go to their website at http://www.ogs.on.ca/thunderbay/index.html
If you are interested in joining Ontario Genealogical Society, go to http://www.ogs.on.ca/membership.php
The Branch has a very interesting and eye-catching first page of their newsletter. Four times a year they highlight an “Ancestor of the Month”, and this month they are featuring Marion Belle Elliot.
Marion was born in 1898 in Morewood (near Ottawa), the daughter of Marion Henderson and Francis Elliot. She taught school in Thunder Bay, and although she wasn’t spoken of as a genealogist, she spent her summer going around Canada visiting relatives, and leaving the lists and pictures of their relatives.
The column, "Research Article", mentions going to a community called Tum Tum in Washington State where Paul McAlister found the tombstone of Robert Elsworth McAlistor. An interesting read!
In another article entitled “Why Mobert is Called Mobert”, we find out that the name is the contraction of C. S. Montizambert, a fellow who led men in 1885 Out West to help quell the Riel Rebellion.
You can go to their website at http://www.ogs.on.ca/thunderbay/index.html
If you are interested in joining Ontario Genealogical Society, go to http://www.ogs.on.ca/membership.php
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