Greeting from the Webmaster

Hello everyone!

First of all I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season and Happy New Year to you all!
Our family was kept quite busy traveling to all the grandparents houses, Ethan and Rhys enjoyed their xmas and were spoiled rotten as usual.
I'm mostly caught up on answering emails, however it has come to my attention that some never made it to me over the holidays, so if you emailed and I haven't responded please send me another note.
Thanks so much for everyone who submitted over the holidays! I've a folder full of great stuff to put online. Please keep them coming!
Many thanks to Peter Rogers and Jerry Vaugn for helping me keep up to speed by transcribing a number of the scans you're sending in.
Big thanks to Chris Morrell for her continued work on the Island Tree which is now over 25, 000 people!
Many thanks as well to AM Benson for continually sending in notices of marriage and deaths from old Kingston Whig and for typing up all of the birth registrations she's gathered over the years and sending them in (over 300!) I'm still in the process of putting these up!

A Few Notes...

New Simcoe Island Obituary Page!

The obituary section of the site now has a page set aside for obituaries of Simcoe Islanders. Please send your in! (Please make a note what island the obit is for, as sometimes it isn't mentioned in the actual obituary.)

Please Support This Site!

Please help support this site! This site grows by the kind submissions of researchers and those interested in preserving their history. Please send in scans of old photos and documents, transcriptions of certificates, obituaries, bibles etc. There is a spot for EVERYTHING on this site, and if there isn't I will make one. Please contact me if you don't have a scanner and would like to mail COPIES of photos or documents for me to scan and/or transcribe. (They will not be returned and you must cover postage costs)
Please help out by sending in anything island related, even if it isn't for your family! Mystery photos are most welcome! Please email me if you would like to help the site grow! Credit will be given to the submitter.

This site now has over 709 pages up from 697 pages on Dec 3.

This Newsletter has 127 subscribers (up from 116 last newsletter)!!

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

What's New...

NEW:

January 4
*Wolfe birth registrations- 12-1881, 12-1882, 12-1883,12-1884,12-1885, 23-1886, 12-1887, 12-1888, 12-1890, 6-1891, 6-1893, 12-1896, 50-1897
January 3
*Wolfe birth registrations- 6-1871, 1-1876, 18-1878, 36-1880
*Amherst people photo pg 7-Riddell, Askin, Weir, Strain
*Howe people photo pg 22- Prior, Driscoll
*Notes to Keils from St. Andrews Wolfe Island parish priest so they could travel and be welcomed at new church-1885-see churches, wolfe island, st. andrews
*Image of 1880 Teachers 3rd Class County Certificate-see schools main pg
*3 off island wolfe death registrations
*4 off island amherst death registrations
*1 1885 amherst marriage cert image and written note from priest-see main amherst marriage pg-scroll down (a Keill-McMaster marraige) *1-1918 amherst off island marriage
*Wolfe marriage announcements-1-1825, 1-1826, 2-1934
*1- 1893 Garden off island marriage
*2 Howe Island wedding announcements
*1 Simcoe Island wedding announcement-see new Simcoe marriage pg
January 1
*Tree updated-thanks yous updated
December 31
*1-1877 Amherst marriage registration
*Amherst researchers

RECENT:

December 23
*John E. Brown bible (Amherst Island)-see bibles section
*7 Amherst people pics-pg 7-Denne, Brown, Singleton, Baatz
*early wolfe land records-1846-61
*Wolfe Island death registrations- 1893-6, 1896-6, 1899-13, 1900-8,1902-10, 1923-2,1925-3,1926-1,1927-2
December 22
*Howe Researcher added
*Some Amherst Pres baptisms-see Amherst Births main page (Scroll down on that pg)
December 20
*10-1905 wolfe marriage reg
*3-1895 wolfe marriage reg
*6-1887 wolfe birth registrations
*6-1885 wolfe birth registrations
*5 Wolfe obits-pg18, 1 Amherst obit-pg4, 1 howe obit-pg8, 1 garden obit-pg1
*letter from Maud Watson(staying with Bamford family-wolfe island)
December 16
*7 Amherst obits-see bottom pg 2
*6 Wolfe obits-see bottom pg 14
December 14
*Wolfe off island marriages-1-1914, 3-1859
*Amherst off island marriages- 1-1858, 3-1859
*1 Howe anniversary article-MacDonald
December 13
*20 Wolfe obit transcriptions-see pg 17
*New wolfe researchers
December 10
*Tibbett's Point Lighthouse (Cape Vincent NY) page- last lighthouse of Pat McAvoy-Costins Lighthouses Project-see Lighthouses link on side bar. December 9
*Wolfe people photo-Dixon, Woodman, etc-pg 37
*2 new Wm Cassidy stone photos-st philomenas-stone #34
*4 Simcoe Island obits
*1 garden island obit
December 8
*2 stones in Mt. Carmel, Chicago, IL of Islanders-see offisland stones
*New photo of Ellen Cassidy stones in St. Philomena's (#148/9)
*1945 article on Millard Horne missing in action-see Military WW2 section
*1 Howe 1887 death reg
*Island Connected Tree project page updated-thank you's, totals, chris's email.
December 6
*3 wolfe 1933 marriage announcements (see wolfe marriage pg, scroll down to newspaper section and go to announcements link)
*1 amherst 1881 marriage
*1 wolfe offisland 1890 marriage
*Lookups page updated
*3 Wolfe people photos-pg 37-surnames Wilder, Richards, Russell
*3 off island tombstones-Huffman/Snider-see ND, USA
*New Wolfe researchers
December 2
*Newsletter sent out
*2 Howe people pics-pg 22 (Hammond, WHite, Garrah)

Coming Soon!

AM Benson has been kind enough to transcribe the Wolfe Island birth registrations she's collected over the years. At this time up to 1897 have been put on the site, 1898-1906 have been submitted and will be put up shortly.>BR>
Chris is still working on transcribing the 1861 Wolfe Island census. She is only doing headings Name, birthplace, religion, age, occupation as this is to be used as a guide.

Diaries of Irene Dixon Bamford are being transcribed...this will be a long process as there is something like 35 YEARS worth! The first diary is 1887 and HAS BEEN COMPLETED. It will be put online soon. 1888 in progress.
Also coming soon are Mr. Bamford log diarys 1911-1912.

Thanks to Thelma Moye for submitting these diaries!

I am still trying to sort out Amherst Island schools- if anyone can help please email me.

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