I have been considering this for some time but, I need your input. Do we need a web site where we can not only share our BLACKBURN data with each other but also reach a more general audience? This would not be something that I would want to do alone, I would need everyone's support, ideas and help. We could start small maybe just have everyone who wants to, send in a 4 to 5 generation chart. (no living persons, please). I know that while searching for my BLACKBURN's I find much more information on 'other' BLACKBURN lines. So I could not only share what little I have on mine but might be able to help someone else with the extra information that has been considered and deemed, "not mine" but surely it is somone's. Think about it, let me know. No one person can do this kind of thing it will take everyone's cooperation to make a nice information page for BLACKBURN researchers. I would like to have one or two assistants to help upload. I use an older version of WP and I have MS Word 2000. I can use MS Excel 2000 for tables, so If you would like to volunteer and have these programs or some different from these, please consider volunteering to help maintain the page, if we decide to go ahead. Everyone has a voice and a vote in this!! kay Kay Griffin Snow
While researching information on a silver mine that my grandfather owned in northern Ontario in the early 1900's I came across a newspaper story about another Blackburn that was busy trying to convince prospectors in the area that he had found gold. From the micro-film stories that I photocopied there are the following clues to his identity.. - his name was W. H. Blackburn (only initials given) - he was from Wales, having arrived in Toronto around 1907 - he was travelling with another prospector named Edward Jones - they had arrived in northern Ontario after having also prospected in Colorado and British Columbia - near the end of one article it mentions that someone had also idenitifed W.H. Blackburn as a suspect in "the famous Kincade murder case at Hamilton" If anyone has W.H. Blackburn and wants some more info I can forward photocopies of the articles. BTW... my Blackburns are all from Scotland and settled in the Ottawa Valley, Quebec, in 1829 ... any info. on them would also be appreciated. ...Bob