Just a quick reminder to everyone who is sending in copies of cemetery maps that it is a good idea to date the map by even a decade if a specific year is not known. The reason I state that is many cemeteries have and are currently filling in roadways and pathways to make room for more graves, and so a current map of a cemetery may be much different from a map of the same cemetery of 50 years ago - especially in urban areas. Also on Monday please take time to pause and gives thanks to our ancestors who have gone before us, be they in Canada or from other countries. We are appreciative of the efforts of those whose names we enter into our genealogy notes ... Be appreciative of the bounty of food and clean water that we have in this land of Canada ... Remember that when your internet service is slow and you get frustrated more than one half of the population of this world have yet to make a telephone call ... Remember that 1 out of every 5 adult people who were born in Canada can not read nor write ... Remember that we who have the benefit of both time and money to do our genealogy research are indeed a very blessed people and have so much to be thankful for. Finally think to yourself - if an ancestor could return to Earth and meet you today for three hours and answer all your genealogical questions about them - at the end of that meeting would they be proud to know you as one of their descendants? J. Brian Gilchrist ---- Original Message ----- From: "GEN" <gendreamer@wightman.ca> To: <CA-ONT-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 2004 Oct 10 9:28 PM Subject: [ON-CEM] AN Invitation for List members. > Wouldn't it be great if everyone on list would take a couple photos of > their local cemetery ? Interested? > Would you please contact me? > And added bonus would be if you had the transcript for that cemetery too. > A huge THANK-YOU to all the people who give freely of their time to do > look ups to assist people in their search to find family. > There has also been a great response concerning maps of cemeteries too. > It is hoped that we can add these maps online, and in turn they will > assist people to navigate in the cemetery. > Thanks and have a good Thanksgiving . > ( not so great, if you happen to be a turkey) > Sheila > shill@wightman.ca > > > > > > > ==== CA-ONT-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > READ the taglines! > Before you ask for a lookup ...check > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~silentguardians/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Thank you Brian. You have always given us so much help. Your words of thankfulness (sp?) for our ancestors really makes me think of what they went through. In transcribing death registrations, people died of what we would consider very minor illnesses. During the WW1, my grandfather managed to live through scarlet fever. This was only found out through his war records, and a family story was proved incorrect. I am thankful that my grandfather lived through scarlet fever, was returned to his family. My father was an only child. I love him and I am thankful for my family. Heather in Orillia Check http://www.rootsweb.com/~onvsr/ For Ontario Birth, Marriages & Deaths -----Original Message----- From: gilchrists [mailto:gilchrists@idirect.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:10 AM To: CA-ONT-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ON-CEM] Cemetery Maps and Thanksgivings for ancestors Just a quick reminder to everyone who is sending in copies of cemetery maps that it is a good idea to date the map by even a decade if a specific year is not known. The reason I state that is many cemeteries have and are currently filling in roadways and pathways to make room for more graves, and so a current map of a cemetery may be much different from a map of the same cemetery of 50 years ago - especially in urban areas. Also on Monday please take time to pause and gives thanks to our ancestors who have gone before us, be they in Canada or from other countries. We are appreciative of the efforts of those whose names we enter into our genealogy notes ... Be appreciative of the bounty of food and clean water that we have in this land of Canada ... Remember that when your internet service is slow and you get frustrated more than one half of the population of this world have yet to make a telephone call ... Remember that 1 out of every 5 adult people who were born in Canada can not read nor write ... Remember that we who have the benefit of both time and money to do our genealogy research are indeed a very blessed people and have so much to be thankful for. Finally think to yourself - if an ancestor could return to Earth and meet you today for three hours and answer all your genealogical questions about them - at the end of that meeting would they be proud to know you as one of their descendants? J. Brian Gilchrist ---- Original Message ----- From: "GEN" <gendreamer@wightman.ca> To: <CA-ONT-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 2004 Oct 10 9:28 PM Subject: [ON-CEM] AN Invitation for List members. > Wouldn't it be great if everyone on list would take a couple photos of > their local cemetery ? Interested? > Would you please contact me? > And added bonus would be if you had the transcript for that cemetery too. > A huge THANK-YOU to all the people who give freely of their time to do > look ups to assist people in their search to find family. > There has also been a great response concerning maps of cemeteries too. > It is hoped that we can add these maps online, and in turn they will > assist people to navigate in the cemetery. > Thanks and have a good Thanksgiving . > ( not so great, if you happen to be a turkey) > Sheila > shill@wightman.ca > > > > > > > ==== CA-ONT-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > READ the taglines! > Before you ask for a lookup ...check > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~silentguardians/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ==== CA-ONT-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== Did you print off your sheet when you joined this list ? Got a branch meeting of the OGS or Historical Society ?...let us know NO VIRUS OR TEST MESSAGES !!! ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/