Spring has Sprung!

Hello everyone!

The snow is gone! Right now it's raining...LOL
In case you haven't heard- my husband and I welcomed our second child into the world on St. Patricks Day. Due to our lovely new arrival I've been slow in answering emails and putting submissions online (well.. slower than my normal rate!)
Thank you to everyone for your patience!
Submissions are coming in at a good rate... more on this in this newsletter..

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 Islands Connected Tree ---
Now Over 21, 684 individuals linked in one tree!!

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

This site now has over 590 pages up from 579 pages on Mar 1.

This Newsletter has 98 subscribers (up from 87 at last newsletter)!!

What's New...

NEW:

May 2
*Island tree Project page link and thank you's updated
April 29
*New Amherst Researchers
April 28
*ALL Sacred heart old cemetery tombstone transcriptions and PHOTOS now online. See Cemetery Online page.
April 22
*working on Sacred Heart Old cemetery pages...
*New Garden, Wolfe and Amherst researchers
April 14
*1 Amherst biography
*2 Wolfe biographies
*2 Wolfe surrogate court application notices-Gilfillan, Irvine-see probate wills main page
*1 wolfe birth announcement 1942-see wolfe births main pg-scroll down
*1 1876 wolfe birth reg
*11 Wolfe marriage announcements-see wolfe marriage pg-scroll down
April 13
*1 Garden marriage announcement-see garden marriage pg-scroll down
*3 Amherst marriage announcement-see amherst marriage pg-scroll down
*7 Wolfe obits-see pg 9
*2 Howe obits
*1 1849 Garden obit
*3 1847 Amherst obits-see pg 4
*Amherst Island researchers
April 5
*1 Wolfe newspaper birth announcement
*1 Howe newspaper birth announcement
*Mystery photo solved!-1960 girls howe island confirmation class-see howe island people photos pg 20
*7 Wolfe obit transcriptions-see pg 9
*2 Wolfe obit images
*1 Howe obit image
*1 Amherst obit transcription-see pg 3

RECENT:

March 29
*1 wolfe newspaper marriage announcement 1893-see wolfe marriages main page-scroll down
*2 Garden marriage reg 1893 (all?)
*1 Wolfe off island marriage 1897
*1 Wolfe off island marriage 1893
*1 Amherst off island marriage 1879
*1 Amherst off island marriage 1895
*1 Howe off island marriage 1871
*1 Howe off island marriage 1870
*Wolfe Island researcher added
*Tree Project page updated- thank you's and numbers
March 12
*5 Wolfe 1882 marriages
*2 Wolfe 1888 marriages
*2 Wolfe off island 1881 marriages
*1 Howe off island marriage bond-1832-see howe marriages main page, scroll down to Other section.
*1 Howe off island marriage 1858
*1 Amherst off island marriage-1878
*8 new wolfe obits see transcriptions pgs 3&4-Staley, McAllister, Spankie, Pullaw, McKay
March 11
*4 old wolfe obits-see transcriptions pg 2- Hall, Rattray, Conley, Daly
March 9
*2 New mystery pics- Wolfe Island- Bamfords? Dixons?-see mystery photos pg 6
*New wolfe people pic- Rachel Bamford nee Dixon- pg 35
*Wolfe Biography: Thomas V. Sluman
*Island Tree Project page Thank you's updated
*3 Howe Island people photos-see pg 20- Norris, Driscoll, Quinn
*2 Howe obits- Norris, McCarty nee Prior- see Howe transcriptions pg 5
*Wolfe obit- SLuman-see Wolfe transcriptions pg 1
March 5
*3 Wolfe obits-see transcription pg 4-Daly, Connolly nee O'Brien and Marlow
*1 Amherst obit-see transcriptions pg 3- Neilson nee Roddick 1941
*Wolfe marriage from newspaper-1895 Connolly-O'brien-see main wolfe marriage page
*Page for St. James Church, Amherst Island
March 4
*Page for St. Pauls church, Amherst Island
Further Amherst church pages in progress...
March 1
*New Wolfe Island researchers added.

FEATURE:

This months feature is all the great new stuff now online and coming soon!

Thanks to Neil Connolly for photographing and scanning ALL of the stones in the Sacred Heart OLD cemetery on Wolfe Island. I have just finished putting these all online. See the Cemetery Online link on the side bar.
Of great interest is there were 12 photographs of OLD stones that did NOT appear in the 1976 transcription book of the cemetery!!!
Again big thank you's to Neil!!
And more GREAT NEWS! Neil has also photographed the Sacred Heart NEW cemetery and scanning is about to begin. These stones will hopefully get online in the next few months (depending on time taken to scan, and put online)

Currently in the works

Maureen Deacon has sent me lots of Amherst Island birth registrations. I am currently working on getting these online- this is my next project.
Pat McAvoy-Costin has sent in the first installment of pages for her Lighthouses project. First Island to be put online will be Pigeon Island.
Aaron Reid sent in over 50 photos of stones in Willowbank cemetery to online (Willowbank is on the mainland north of the islands- contains many Howe Islanders in particular.) I also have a large number of obits, newspaper clippings of weddings etc, misc birth and marriage registrations to go online.

So keep checking back to the main page for The Islands to see how progress is going on all these great new things to come.
If you have anything you would like to submit DO send them in now! I'll put them up as soon as possible!

(note: submissions for the Island Researchers page are put up as soon as possible after they are sent in)

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?
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Submitted your online webpage?
ISLAND LINKS

Submitted other online sites you've found?
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Posted to the Forum?
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Signed the Guestbook?
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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.

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The Islands page now has a new email address. The angelfire address will expire May 31, so please change the address in your address book as soon as possible. See Webmaster Email button on side bar for new address.


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.

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.