>The following was posted to the Britnames Mail List - Cheers, Stella >"CLEANING MOTHER'S HOUSE" by Michael John Neill >===================================================================== > >It has been nearly a year since fictional genealogist Barbara passed away. >Her daughter, Charlene reflects upon that year in a letter to her friend >Karen. Charlene truly has been busy. Barbara is probably rolling over in >her grave. > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > >Karen, > >As usual, my cards are late. It has been a busy year. > >We spent much of the year settling up Mother's estate. The house sold >well, but cleaning it took longer than we expected. > >You are probably the only person who did not know Mother was a genealogy >buff. She told practically every human she encountered. I'm convinced >that >genealogy 'nut' was the most accurate phrase. The stuff was all over the >house. The inheritance would have been enough to pay for my new Mercedes >had she not insisted on spending money on that blasted hobby. I don't >know >why she couldn't be more like Tom's mother, Nadine spends her day doing >needlepoint and watching reruns of 50s television shows. Tom just does not >realize how lucky he is, but men never do. My mother had to run off to >cemeteries and courthouses! She even went to a conference in Davenport, >Iowa, last year! Can you imagine? Davenport, Iowa! After she got back, >she was so excited about all that she had learned and all the fun she had. >She was planning on going to another one in California this year. Well, >the grim reaper took care of that. > >Because of my promotion to head of knick knack sales at >Garbageforless.com, I had not been home for several years. I was appalled >to learn that Mother had converted my old bedroom into her family history >"headquarters." My shelves of Teen Beat and other magazines documenting >my adolescence had been replaced with old family photographs, copies of >old >documents, and something called family group sheets. She even got rid of >the pants I wore to my first junior high dance. I cried at the thought. > >I could not bear to go in the room and be reminded that my childhood had >been stripped from me and replaced with an obsession with the past. I >told >the children that if they would clean the room and prepare the items for >the garage (should I say "garbage"?) sale they could have the proceeds. I >learned what true entrepreneurs they are. > >Kenny stripped Mother's hard drive in under ten minutes. I kept hearing >him say "Gedcom is GedGone....GedCom is GedGone...." I have no idea what >it meant, but the computer fetched a good price. Before he unplugged the >computer, he erased all Mom's floppy disks and downloaded public domain >games. He sold these at a nominal price. > >Susan took the old photographs to a flea market and was able to sell many >of them. Some special labels had to be taken off and we had to take them >out of protective envelopes. Mother had written the names on the back of >many of them. At least none of those pictures of depressing old dead >people had our last name written on them. I don't want to be associated >with such sour people. > >Mother had some type of old plat book -- whatever that is. Kenny tore out >the pages individually and sold them separately on eBay. It was so >clever. >His dad said he got much more than if he had left the book in one piece. > >Susan didn't tear the bibles apart though. I thought that showed a >tremendously good sense. She's learning that not everything can be >marketed in the same way. The 1790 bible brought her a good penny, but >she >couldn't get the one from 1900 to bring more than fifty cents. She >donated >it to a local church, and here is where I am so proud of her. We can >write >it off as a charitable deduction. Someone had written what they had paid >for the bible on the back cover. Susan converted that to 2001 dollars and >will use that for our tax deduction amount. I've already enrolled Susan >in >tax lawyer summer camp this coming August. > >There was some old large certificate written on heavy paper. The silly >thing wasn't even in English, so why would Mother keep it? Kenny used the >other side to keep track of the things he had sold. Waste not, want not. >When we were finished we put the paper in the recycling bin. > >The kids put an old wedding dress from the 1870s in the washer to get the >stains out. It was terribly filthy. The worthless thing didn't even >survive the extra long cycle and the half-gallon of bleach. It's doubtful >we can even use it for cleaning rags. > >The dress was in some kind of old trunk. I'm not certain what it was for, >but it had a name stenciled on the front in huge letters along with the >name of a town. Susan give it a good coating of red paint and sold it as >a >toy box. > >The filing cabinets were emptied of their contents, as were the three >shelves of binders. Kenny got the bright idea to shred the paper and sell >it in bags as New Year's confetti. The file folders were too heavy to >shred. > >The baby did not react well to any of this. She cried and fussed almost >the entire time. Kenny thought she wanted tea, which made no sense to me >at all. As she cried, it sounded like she was saying "family tee." She >can't even talk yet and I think Kenny was hearing things. The baby does >not look exactly like my mother though, it's the oddest thing. The >fussing >didn't stop until she spit up an entire bottle of strained prunes on my >junior high jeans, which we did find in the basement. They were >ruined -- >it was the one real loss. Now my past has really been taken from me -- >magazines and all. > >Charlene > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > >Whether you have a child like Charlene or not, have you thought about what >might happen to your genealogy collection upon your demise? > > > > > > > > > > > > >Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with >chocolate. > > >==== BRIT-SURNAMES Mailing List ==== >Other Rootsweb Genealogy Lists, >http://lists.rootsweb.com/ >UK Census online http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ >

Hi List I'm hoping that someone could get a copy of a death registration for me please. ANNIE DILL event date: 1930 6 5 event place: Nelson, BC age: 54 registration # 1930-09-447241 BC Archives # B13140 GSU # 1952651 Thank you Pat Ontario --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Orillia ProNet with Delcude AntiVirus]

I am looking for the descendants of Arnold PALMER, son of William & Eliza Ann PALMER of Rawtenstall, Lancashire. 1891: Ref. RG12/3351 folio 65 26 Alma Cottages Clough Fold, Cowpe Lench. William Palmer Head Mar 38 Engine Driver (stationary) Cambs Burwell Eliza A. Palmer Wife Mar 30 Cambs Whittlesea John H. do Son 12 Cotton Mill Hand Lancs.Rawtenstall Fred do Son 7 Scholar do do Arnold do Son 5 Scholar do do In newscutting from 1938 about William & Eliza's Diamond wedding that has just been sent to me, Arnold, [bn abt 1886], is living in Victoria, Canada. Anyone tie up with this family? AND I'm still looking for Walter SCOTT, my runaway Gt Grandfather bn 1867; disappeared in abt 1905 from England. Any sightings, anywhere? Regards, Ann McClean in Llanmerewig, Mid-Wales, U.K. ann-mcclean@mid-wales.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bobbin Lacemaking Pages: http://www.ann-mcclean.mid-wales.net/page2.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cross Stitch Kits of the traditional [c.1923] U.K. Counties: http://www.ann-mcclean.mid-wales.net/BritainInStitches/britst.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CAWTHORN, SCOTT, PALMER & DeSILVA PALMER Family History Pages: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/FHmisc/fhpage1.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cambridgeshire Taverns & Public Houses in 1839 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/1839Pigots/1839index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CFHS 2726 FFHS 0046 MGS 727

Hi Ann See the BC archives at http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm The following Death Registration may be your Arnold, his death in Jan 1975 at age 88 makes his birth year abt 1886/7 Name: Arnold Palmer Event Date: 1975 1 3 (Yr/Mo/Day) Event Place: Victoria Age: 88 Reg. Number: 1975-09-001024 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B13339 GSU Microfilm Number: 2050439 I can look up the details when I visit the library on Saturday Regards David On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:02:24 -0000, Ann McClean wrote: >I am looking for the descendants of Arnold PALMER, son of >William & Eliza Ann PALMER of Rawtenstall, Lancashire. > >1891: Ref. RG12/3351 folio 65 26 Alma Cottages Clough Fold, Cowpe Lench. >William Palmer Head Mar 38 Engine Driver (stationary) Cambs Burwell >Eliza A. Palmer Wife Mar 30 Cambs >Whittlesea >John H. do Son 12 Cotton Mill Hand >Lancs.Rawtenstall >Fred do Son 7 Scholar do >do >Arnold do Son 5 Scholar do >do > >In newscutting from 1938 about William & Eliza's Diamond wedding that has >just been sent to me, Arnold, [bn abt 1886], is living in Victoria, Canada. > >Anyone tie up with this family? > >AND I'm still looking for Walter SCOTT, my runaway Gt Grandfather >bn 1867; disappeared in abt 1905 from England. >Any sightings, anywhere? > >Regards, Ann McClean >in Llanmerewig, Mid-Wales, U.K. >ann-mcclean@mid-wales.net >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Bobbin Lacemaking Pages: >http://www.ann-mcclean.mid-wales.net/page2.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Cross Stitch Kits of the traditional [c.1923] U.K. Counties: >http://www.ann-mcclean.mid-wales.net/BritainInStitches/britst.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >CAWTHORN, SCOTT, PALMER & DeSILVA PALMER Family History Pages: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/FHmisc/fhpage1.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Cambridgeshire Taverns & Public Houses in 1839 >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/1839Pigots/1839index.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >CFHS 2726 FFHS 0046 MGS 727 > > > > > > > > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at >http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes >These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. >

Hi Ruth - I have a 1997 phonebook for that area and there is an O.T. CASSIDY living at 512 W.Banks St., Parksville, BC 250-248-5510 I would think this would be him. He is listed in the Nanaimo Obituaries as born 1910 and died June 12, 2000 in Nanaimo, probably in the hospital. Maybe someone can get you a copy of the obit. - Karen

Listers, Apologies for forgetting the DOT CA the first time. Ontario Archives = http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/index.html regards, Dana Taylor West Van

I am looking for any information regarding Oswald Thomas Cassidy, born in the early 1900s to Anne McDonald and Thomas Smith Cassidy. He at some time lived in Qualicum, BC. He may be a link to finding a living relative on my father's side. Are there any records available in Qualicum? His sister lived (later in life, at least) and died in Vancouver so he may have, too. There is nothing in the BMD records of Oswald. His mother, Anne, later married my birth grandfather, but I don't know if Thomas died or they separated. Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks. Ruth Staal

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Hello everybody Thanks to all of you who offered advice about tracking down William Chase. It's very much appreciated. Kind regards Victoria _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

Riccarda, One useful Ontario site: www.archives.gov.on I have on and off been on various rootsweb site lists as well depending on area. Good luck dana taylor

My friend's father and his family came from Ontario and Manitoba Canada. Would you know where I might find records for those provinces on the net? Ciao, Riccarda

Here is a link to the Wesleyan Methodist baptismal records for Ontario - this went on line I think in November or December - Bill Martin who looks after this - has a number of pages - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/wm-mc_77.htm Here also is a link for the 1871 Householders Index http://www.archives.ca/02/020108_e.html You can check out other links that I have found particularly useful on my own page of gen links at http://jamcnairn.com/Family%20Tree/gengenlinks.htm Which includes another link for alot of Canadian links - worth searching through http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/cghl.html Go to the Ontario section - there are many more things there if you know where in Ontario they come from - and there is also a section for Manitoba - and BC etc. Judi McNairn Bruce County, Ontario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Riccarda Mescola" <rmescola@inwind.it> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: [CAN-BC] Ontario and Manitoba > My friend's father and his family came from Ontario and Manitoba Canada. > Would you know where I might find records for those provinces on the net? > Ciao, Riccarda > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Every two months or so, please repost your interests, > telling us what you know and where you've looked > and what you still need to find out. > >

What I have found is that if I try to go directly to the search page, I get a "busy signal" but if I go from the main page then I can get to the search page. Pam David Fancy wrote: > > Hi Esther > > I was able to connect OK. > > check the URL > > http://www.cwgc.org/ > > Regards > David > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:50:52 -0800, Esther Mead wrote: > > >Hi List - I am having trouble accessing the Commonwealth Grave Site. > > Does anyone have any > >knowledge of why a person cannot get onto the site. > >Thnks. > >Esther in Victoria > > > > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > >To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at > >http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes > >These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Visit the British Columbia Gen Web page at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/ David Fancy wrote: > > Hi Esther > > I was able to connect OK. > > check the URL > > http://www.cwgc.org/ > > Regards > David > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:50:52 -0800, Esther Mead wrote: > > >Hi List - I am having trouble accessing the Commonwealth Grave Site. > > Does anyone have any > >knowledge of why a person cannot get onto the site. > >Thnks. > >Esther in Victoria > > > > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > >To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at > >http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes > >These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Visit the British Columbia Gen Web page at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/ -- Pam Fairweather Thomson in BC, Canada *I collect Fairweathers!* mailto:pamthom@intergate.ca

Hi Esther I was able to connect OK. check the URL http://www.cwgc.org/ Regards David On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:50:52 -0800, Esther Mead wrote: >Hi List - I am having trouble accessing the Commonwealth Grave Site. > Does anyone have any >knowledge of why a person cannot get onto the site. >Thnks. >Esther in Victoria > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at >http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes >These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. >

Hello Esther I was able to get into the site but it was quite slow (unless everyone else was trying it at the same time). <g> Carol Lylyk Calgary, Alberta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther Mead" <Esther_Mead@telus.net> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 7:50 AM Subject: [CAN-BC] Re: Commonwealt War Graves Commission > Hi List - I am having trouble accessing the Commonwealth Grave Site. > Does anyone have any --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 11/01/2002

Hi List - I am having trouble accessing the Commonwealth Grave Site. Does anyone have any knowledge of why a person cannot get onto the site. Thnks. Esther in Victoria

Searching for any information on Alan Frost 1928-1982 ? believe he may be buried in the sunnyside lawn cemetery would like to find more about his and my ancestors any help greatly appreciated stu

Hi Stu; The BC Cemetery Finding Aid lists the following Alan Frost which may be yours FROST, Alan Hubert Sunnyside Lawn,Surrey, 14850 - 28th Avenue Surrey. Southwestern BCGS-C-63 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Sunnyside Lawn Cemetery is owned and operated by the City of Surrey. for more info phone/fax the City of Surrey Cemeteries at Phone 604-501-5070 Fax 604-501-5081 or write to City of Surrey Cemeteries Administrative Offices 7452 132 Street, Surrey. BC V3W 4M7 Canada They will not have much personal info but should be able to tell you who purchased the plot, date of the burial and the name of the undertaker [who might have a copy of death registration on file]. This will give you a date and a pointer to the finding any obits. If the undertakers files can be located you may find a list of pall bearers [possible next of kin], the text of the obit and the names of the papers in which it was inserted. Some local papers in print at that time were Peace Arch News Surrey White Rock Sun Surrey Leader Surrey Messenger The Regional Papers are Vancouver Sun The Province The Columbian Regards David >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:07:04 EST, Stu963@aol.com wrote: >Searching for any information on Alan Frost 1928-1982 ? believe he may be >buried in the sunnyside lawn cemetery would like to find more about his and >my ancestors any help greatly appreciated >stu > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >Check the list's archives out at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html >

My friend Bud Lang just asked me this question, and I know someone there will know the answer...can someone help please, thanks, Riccarda My father and his family came from Ontario and Manitoba Canada. Would you know where I might find records for those provinces on the net?

Joan - I believe that these records are only for immigrants entering the USA through the Canadian border. This was formed because many immigrants were landing in Canadian ports and then stepping over the border rather than going through the stringent immigration procedures at US ports. As for visitors, I would think that would probably be covered under another form, possibly something along the lines of a visitor visa. I'm not really sure about this but I would be curious to know the answer to your question as that might open up another avenue for searching. Anyone? Shelly > Shelly, are these lists only one way--Canada to U.S. and not both ways? Are > they only immigrants or do they record visitors too? > Joan > >