Greeting from the Webmaster(Mistress?)

Hello everyone!

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer and making good use of any holiday time!
Submissions are coming in at a slow but steady rate. I got all the tidbits put up today. Just main projects left to go for now.
--If you know of an island related reunion and would like the info posted here please email me.--

Site Corrections
If you happen to see any errors on the site, broken links, typos, or information that is incorrect or not quite right, please email me! Please include the page link where the error is, and what and where the error is on the page. If you are correcting information please give your source if possible. Corrections always welcome! Please put "Island Corrections" in the subject line of your email.

The Islands Connected Tree ---
Now Over 23,252 individuals linked in one tree!!

See the Trees page on the Islands site for updates. Island Tree Project

This site now has over 630 pages up from 620 pages on July 28.

This Newsletter has 109 subscribers (up from 106 at last newsletter)!!

What's New...

NEW:

August 18
*Newsletter sent out.
*5 new wolfe island people pics-pgs 35&35- Keill & Briceland names
*2 Wolfe articles (see main articles page, wolfe articles pg 4)- fatal accident by whiskey, schooner for sale
*2 wolfe obit transcriptions-pg 11
*Wolfe off island marriages: 1-1863,1-1865,1-1868, 2-1884,1-1886, 1-1888, 2-1890, 1-1893,2-1898, 1-1900,1-1902
*Off island marriages: Garden Island 1-1866, 1- 1858; Howe Island 1 each of: 1859,1885,1887, 1893,1897,1904,1907
*Eves (Simcoe Island)- 50th Anniversary article image-see wolfe island anniversaries
*births in 'other' category- 8 Wolfe, 17 Amherst. See islands main birth page and scroll down.

RECENT:

August 6
*Snake Island Lighthouse Statistics page updated
*3 old Howe people photos-see pg 20 & 21- names Foley, Prior, Kelly & Pickett
*5 Wolfe obits-see pg 11
August 5
*Photos of amherst old buildings-stores, B&B's, Tugwell house and barns, also old slate fencing.-see Amherst pics-old houses pg 2
*photo St. Bartholomew's church, Amherst Island-see churches main page.
*New Wolfe Island Deeds-see land records
*Tree updated
July 29
*Quebec Head Lighthouse pages now online! See Lighthouses-Wolfe Island

FEATURE:

In Progress.

Horne & Point Alexandria Cemetery photos/Transcriptions
All photos have been transcribed (there are over 60 stones not in the old transcription book) Almost all photos have been uploaded to the site- just have to make up the pages!!

** I also have tombtone photos for Willowbank, St. Johns in Gananoque, and the new sacred heart cem on Wolfe to go online.

Gallant Volunteers List
This long list has arrived in the mail and is currently being transcribed to be put online.

** This will be the main feature of a new section coming to the site: Island MILITARY.
I am currently looking for any information related to the islands or islanders that is military related. If you have any info, even just a name of someone who served in a war, please email me! This section will be put up soon!!

Working Together

The Islands site is built and grows through the efforts of those who use it. I do what I can to add new information, but I am only one person. Please consider submitting information, photos or anything else you have to add to this site. Credit will be given to the submitter.
Submissions are greatly needed for Amherst Island. Surf the pages to see what IS there.

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