Greeting from the Webmaster

Hello everyone!

Well the Aug newsletter is a bit late, I have had some time to add some new items to the site (see below) . I do have submissions to put up and will try to get some up in the next few days.
Hope you are all having a great summer!! jen

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 870 pages up from 858 pages in feb.
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 1
*3 Eves pics- Amherst Island People pg 10
*Amherst Island No2 school bookmarks-see amherst schools main page
Aug 30
*3 new wolfe obits pg 22
*3 new amherst obits pg 6
*new wolfe island researchers added.

RECENT:

Aug 4
*June and July newsletters archived
*July newsletter sent out.

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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.

BRICKWALL

Please email me with your Brick Wall questions!!
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]