Good morning Jane - Excellent explanation of the system, but I would like to add that 1907 as the first year for parents' names on death certificates cannot be considered as a certainty. Actually I think I might have seen them on some slightly earlier, but I KNOW they are sometimes not on forms much later. I suppose it depended on whether the local registrar was using the most current forms, or older ones, but often I have seen the place for parents names simply left blank. A few years ago I thought I was going to get the names of a greatgreat grandmother's parents from the death registration for her twin sister who died in 1913. When the film came in, imagine my disappointment when the names were not on it! It could also be that the informant registering the death didn't know, but I also believe that some local registrars simply didn't bother about that particular piece of information - when you see several registrations together, from the same registrar, without the parents names that is the most logical conclusion. I have in front of me a death registration I copied at the local FHC Tuesday of this week - it is for a death in 1917 and the names of the parents were not included. My files contain 3,500 copies of birth, marriage and death registrations - 850 are deaths. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Watt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:28 AM Subject: [ONT-Cemeteries] Vital Statistics for Ontario > Just for everyones information I'll give a short bit on what is available > for Ontario. Births 1869-1906, Marriages 1869-1921 and Deaths 1869-1931, if > I remember correctly, 1907 is the first year they ask for a persons parents > names and birthplaces on the death registration. There are indexes to the > above vital statistics, you find the person you are looking for, make note > of the registration number and year in which the event was registered, then > go to another book to find out what reel number that particular registration > is on. All registration films are available through your local library on > inter library loan, in Canada. Elsewhere the films can be ordered in to your > local Family History Library (LDS). Any dates after the above have to be > ordered, check the Ontario Archives site http://www.archives.gov.on.ca on > how to do that. Every year another year is released, so this year we will > get births for 1907, deaths for 1932 and marriages for 1922. I hope I have > explained this so everyone can understand. > Jane in Cooksville (Mississauga) Ontario, Canada > ----- Original Message -----

I have seen death registration that are blank except for a date of death and the registration signature. It could also be that the informant did not understand the questions the registrar was asking them. Heather in Orillia "As soon as you are born you have history" Check http://www.rootsweb.com/~onvsr/ for Birth, Marriage & Death registrations. -----Original Message----- From: Sharon J Cadieux [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ONT-Cemeteries] Vital Statistics for Ontario Good morning Jane - Excellent explanation of the system, but I would like to add that 1907 as the first year for parents' names on death certificates cannot be considered as a certainty. Actually I think I might have seen them on some slightly earlier, but I KNOW they are sometimes not on forms much later. I suppose it depended on whether the local registrar was using the most current forms, or older ones, but often I have seen the place for parents names simply left blank. A few years ago I thought I was going to get the names of a greatgreat grandmother's parents from the death registration for her twin sister who died in 1913. When the film came in, imagine my disappointment when the names were not on it! It could also be that the informant registering the death didn't know, but I also believe that some local registrars simply didn't bother about that particular piece of information - when you see several registrations together, from the same registrar, without the parents names that is the most logical conclusion. I have in front of me a death registration I copied at the local FHC Tuesday of this week - it is for a death in 1917 and the names of the parents were not included. My files contain 3,500 copies of birth, marriage and death registrations - 850 are deaths. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Watt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:28 AM Subject: [ONT-Cemeteries] Vital Statistics for Ontario > Just for everyones information I'll give a short bit on what is available > for Ontario. Births 1869-1906, Marriages 1869-1921 and Deaths 1869-1931, if > I remember correctly, 1907 is the first year they ask for a persons parents > names and birthplaces on the death registration. There are indexes to the > above vital statistics, you find the person you are looking for, make note > of the registration number and year in which the event was registered, then > go to another book to find out what reel number that particular registration > is on. All registration films are available through your local library on > inter library loan, in Canada. Elsewhere the films can be ordered in to your > local Family History Library (LDS). Any dates after the above have to be > ordered, check the Ontario Archives site http://www.archives.gov.on.ca on > how to do that. Every year another year is released, so this year we will > get births for 1907, deaths for 1932 and marriages for 1922. I hope I have > explained this so everyone can understand. > Jane in Cooksville (Mississauga) Ontario, Canada > ----- Original Message ----- ==== CA-ONT-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== Website that goes with this mailing list http://ca-on-cemeteries.tripod.com/ Do you have a list of cemeteries that you have transcripts? Contact [email protected] ============================== 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

Good Day It could also be as in my father's Death Certificate there was only the date of his death and Forename and Surname. He died in Ottawa in 1965 after being released from the Royal Canadian Army and the Last Post had nothing on him and since my father left my mother the children were made wards of the Court and put in the Children's Aid and Infants Home on Charles Street in Toronto in 1948 . He is buried in Beachwood Cemetery in Ottawa. When I received his Army Records in 1981 there he was Very interesting reading William Stratton Dartmouth NS