Passing on as requested ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Bertram" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: [ONT] Hints for the Ontario Vital Statistics site. > > Hi everyone. > > Just a few hints for searching the OVS site. > > - Check alternative spellings of the surname. > > - Check U for Unknown - if it was illegible that is where the Ontario > Archives have listed it. Also Unknown people are there. > > - Check N for Not named births or deaths (especially stillborns). Quite > often the informant was the parent. > > - Check S for Stillborn. > > Please keep in mind that, although the registrations were required, they > were not always done. > > If you cannot find the registration, it has not been transcribed yet. > All transcriptions are done by volunteers, out of their pockets, on > their time. > > If you have not tried the site, the URL is in my signature line. > Please pass this message to other lists. > > Have a good evening everyone. > > Heather in Orillia > Check http://www.rootsweb.com/~onvsr/ > For Ontario Birth, Marriages & Deaths > > > > > ==== ONTARIO Mailing List ==== > *** ONTARIO GENEALOGY *** > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ > >