Greeting from the Webmaster

Hello everyone!

Goodness its October already! Where did the summer go? I had some time in september to work on getting caught up on the site and there are lots of new additions! More to come soon too so check back often!

A Few Notes...

1851 census images now online!!

I've recieved a few emails with links to the new online 1851 census images... so here it is for those who haven't heard yet!
1851 census images

Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia)
At this point there is no name or street index. However, the images I looked at were excellent, much better than the microfilm.
Toronto researchers should be aware that the returns for Scarborough and the City of Toronto (1851 boundaries) have been lost, but if they are looking for a family that lived north of Bloor Street, or east of the Don River, or west of about Dufferin Street, they should be able to find them in York Township.
All researchers should be aware that the census was taken in January of 1852, although it is often referred to as the 1851 census.

Search

Please don't forget that you can search THIS SITE using the Freefind search engine at the top left. Unfortunetly there is no soundex search so be sure to try various name spellings. The transcriptions on this site are as accurate as possible in spelling, and we all know how terrible some of our ancestors, and those who wrote down records, were in the past! Best of luck!

Volunteer:

New submissions to the site are always welcome! Even if it is just ONE obit we don't have! Please contact me for submission details. This site now has over 881 pages up from 870 pages in aug.
This Newsletter has 187 subscribers, up from 177 in June.

If you would like to submit a "BRICK WALL" problem to the newsletter please email me with "Newsletter Brick Wall" in the subject line.

Other comments, notes, articles are also welcome to be added to the newsletter.

Other submissions to this newsletter are also welcome! Please email me!!

What's New...

NEW:

Sept 25
*New Wolfe Island people pics-pg 45! Holliday/halliday & Gillespie
Sept 19
*4 wolfe island marriage announcements-2x1905, 2x1912
*Dozens of new Island articles-see articles>new articles section
Sept 18
*All Garden 1908 birth registrations
*All Howe 1908 birth registrations
*1 Howe off island births 1908 (see howe births main pg)
*All wolfe 1908 birth registrations
*4 wolfe off island births 1908 (see wolfe births main pg)
*5 Wolfe Island off island 1933 deaths
*All (lots!) wolfe island 1933 deaths
*1 Howe Island 1933 death
*2 off garden island 1933 deaths
*1 off amherst island 1933 death
*1 off island simcoe island 1899 death-see Island Deaths main page
*All wolfe island 1899 deaths
*all Garden Island 1899 deaths
*ALL wolfe island 1908 marriages
*4 off island wolfe 1908 marriages
*1 off island Howe 1908 marriage
*2 off island Amherst 1908 marriages
*All 1876 wolfe birth registrations

RECENT:

Sept 15
*August newsletter archived
Sept 11
*wolfe island off island reg 3x1894, 6x 1899
*ALL wolfe island 1894 & 1899 marriage reg.!
*ALL howe island 1894 marriage registrations!!
*howe island of island marriage reg 2x 1894,2x1899
* amherst island off island marriage reg 2x 1894, 1 x 1899
*wolfe island lease record 1837 Jabez West
Sept 7
*August newsletter send out

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BRICKWALL

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I have been researching the Israel and Agnes Garrah family and have found some information but most of what I can find is for Israel and his second wife Mary. If anyone has any information that they can provide me with the children Francis, Harriett, Peter, Charles, Adel;ine, John Baptist and Lucine it would be greatly appreciated. I have extensive information on Julia and some information on her brother Israel. Both came to Michigan and are buried here. Any information that is on the Islands web site is all that I have on the other siblings. If there are any living ancestors, I would greatly appreciate hearing from them. [email protected]