Marching into Spring...

Hello everyone!

I hope some of you out there are starting to see signs of spring, we are still pretty bogged down in snow! Additions to the site have been slow this last month.. but there have been some!

Any time now I will be offline for a few days. My second child is due April 1st. If you email and don't hear from me within a week (at least an acknowledgment of email received) please email again. I will post a note here after the baby is born. Please do continue to send in submissions as I'm sure I'll have a lot of late nights where I can put them up. Thanks for your support!

A few notes..

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.

Volunteer STILL Needed Can anyone look this up for the site?
“Canada's Gallant Volunteers of 1837-38: Roll Call, Winter of 1890-91,” The listing is a consolidation of lists of names “prepared through the patriotic efforts of George Merrill of Belleville. published by the British Whig, Kingston, in winter of 1891.” This can be found on microfilm or at Queens, Stauffer Library in Kingston-if you will look this up please email me. I have been told there are a number of islanders listed.

The Island Connected Tree now has over 20, 000 people in it!

However it has been experiencing some problems. Please access the tree by the Island Tree Projects main page as the link to the tree is sometimes changed. We are working on the problems and hope to everything fixed up soom. See the Trees page on the Islands site for updates. Island Tree Project

This site now has 579 pages up from 576 pages on Feb 4.

This Newsletter has 87 subscribers (down from 97 at last newsletter as all aol subscribers have been removed, but this is still up from 83 at second last newsletter)!!

What's New...

NEW:

March 1
*New Wolfe Island researchers added.

RECENT:

Feb 26
*New Wolfe ON Island marriages: 12 -1882, 8-1888
*New Howe off island marriage 1-1888
*New Garden off island marriages 1-1882, 2-1888
Feb 20
*Researcher address corrections
*Island Tree down-currently working of a fix...check back later..
*New Wolfe off island marriage-1881
*New Howe off island marriages: 1-1881, 2-1905
*New Garden off island marriages: 2-1881
*New Amherst off island marriages: 3-1874, 1-1881,1-1905
Feb 16
*1 Howe obit transcription and image-see pg 5-surname Beseau nee Leeder
*6 wolfe obit transcriptions-see pg 1 (saving some room here)- surnames include: Putnam, Dixon, King, Hall, Hutchinson, Chatterton
*15 Wolfe obit transcriptions-see pg 7 & 8, surnames include: Beebee, Townsend, Woodman, Luther, Bamford, Vincent, Halliday, Cummings, MacDonald, Shay, Docteur-McIntyre, Barker, Comins, Dixon,Tiernan, Schram
Feb 13
*7 Wolfe obit transcriptions-see pg 7, surnames Bamford, Comins, Smith, Conley, Cheever, Kenney, Halliday(Holliday)
*6 new Amherst people pics- see peop pgs 5 & 6-surnames Brown, Reid, Tugwell & Strawbridge
Feb 11
*2 new Wolfe obit transcriptions-see transcriptions pg 7- Halliday and Woodman
*3 new Wolfe offisland marriages- 2-1884,1-1875
*2 new Amherst offisland marriages- 1-1875,1-1897
*2 new Garden offisland marriages- 1-1884,1-1900
*3 new Glenwood cem transcriptions with photos
*1 new Glenwood cem transcription
*New Garden and Howe Researchers
Feb 10
*Island tree info page updated
*4 Amherst people pics-see pg 5-surnames Tugwell, Gratton, McGinn, Kirkpatrick, Miller, Kilpatrick-one of these also put on mystery page 8 as missing many names
Feb 9
*New Wolfe Island researchers
*New Wolfe 1890 birth reg
Feb 6
*New volunteer lookup-amherst book-go to lookups then to volunteer lookups link
*New Amherst researcher
*Mystery photo identified! See Howe Island peop pg 20 for Quinn/Foley pic with names!
Feb 5
*New Simcoe, Howe and Wolfe Island Researchers
Feb 4
*Feb Newsletter sent out
*New Wolfe peoplep photo-Murphy, Doyle, Biss- see Wolfe people pic pg 35

FEATURE:

The LOOKUPS section of the site..

LOOKUPS
What is this button for? (Left side bar) You may ask...
Yes there is a lot of info on the site- but I ALSO do lookups in a number of resources. Check out the Lookups page to see what's there!
Some of my books aren't only for the islands.
Please remember:
Put 'JEN LOOKUP!" in the subject line
Be specific in what book you want the lookup done in. I don't do blanket searchers.

Also see the link on the Lookups page to VOLUNTEER ISLAND LOOKUPS
This is were visitors like you who have offered to do lookups are posted. Some great resources listed here!

Please check out these pages and if you are willing to do lookups and be posted here please drop me an email (VOLUNTEER LOOKUPS in subject line please) and I will add you.



Stop by THE ISLANDS today!

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.

Have You...?

Submitted your surnames?
ISLAND RESEARCHERS

Submitted your online webpage?
ISLAND LINKS

Submitted other online sites you've found?
ISLAND LINKS

Posted to the Forum?
ISLAND FORUM

Signed the Guestbook?
SIGN NOW!

Joined the CAN-ONT-ISLANDS mailing list?? FREE Mailing List
For the islands of Ontario, Canada. Subscribe to mail mode by emailing: [email protected] with 'subscribe' and nothing else in the subject. For digest mode, send the command instead to: [email protected]

Checked out the LOOKUPS page... will you offer to do lookups in your resources?

Have a Question?

Please feel free to email me with any questions you may have about the Island page.

EMAIL ME


My other email (please use it for sending LARGE files and photos when possible, as it has an unlimited holding space) is [email protected]


ANOTHER NOTE:
No genealogists were harmed in the making of this newsletter.
:)


If you would like to post anything to this newsletter please email me about it. I'd be happy to put little blurbs- either about family or if you would like to discuss an island topic or recount some island memories.

NEW! Jim & Patti Kellar's Transcriptions: Census and Death registrations transcriptions! Cover Frontenac and L&A Co.'s


Linda Corupes Genealogy Books at Genealogy Publications of Ontario and Quebec Includes civil marriages transcriptions for Frontenac to 1885 and L&A to 1910! Plus much more!


Russ Wallers Genealogy Books still for sale!
You can still by Russ's transcriptions and family connection
books for the islands. Mrs. Waller has told me she will
continue to sell his books as long as they are wanted.
See his web page at: Russ Wallers Genealogy Books

EVERYONE! Please don't forget to put the word 'ISLAND' somewhere in your subject line! I know I'm missing some of your emails because there is no subject line, or it is 'hi' or something similar and I delete it. I get A LOT of spam and don't take the time to check every email- I look at my subject lines. Thank you.