On Wed, 11 October 2000, heatherm@nait.ab.ca wrote: > > > Are there any on-line cemetary listings for Manitoba - specifically Dauphin > and surrounding rural areas? > ******************************************************** Here is a direct line for the Manitoba Genealogical Society's cemetery transcriptions: www.mbnet.mb.ca/~mgs/mgs_mis.html Good Luck in your search. Nicole > > > > > Edmonton, Alberta, Canada > Phone (780)471-7833/N109 > Fax (780)491-3084 > heatherm@nait.ab.ca > > Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do > with it. > > > > Bette Kosmolak > <kosmo@pacific To: CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com > coast.net> cc: > Subject: [CAN-Manitoba] Land Assessments > 10/11/00 02:06 > Please respond > to > CAN-MANITOBA-L > > > > > > Alan, > I expect there were property assessments done in the west but I couldn't > swear to it. I've never checked it out. > However, the homestead records are somewhat like a trail of property > assessments on the farm. Each homesteader had to 'prove up' the land, > so he filed annually what he'd done after he applied for his patent up > to the time he got his deed. I also expect there must have been > property assessments at the municipal level because they must have used > such for realty tax purposes. > > You might query a reference librarian in Wpg or U of Manitoba - or query > a land titles office in Manitoba. I expect they can tell you. > > BTW, where was your John Colbert in 1881 and 1891? Have you checked > those census records? > > Sorry I couldn't be of more help. > > Bette > > > ==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== > Visit the Canada GenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/ > See the Resources and Projects > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free record at RootsWeb > http://search.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > ==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== > Manitoba GenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmb/ > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free record at RootsWeb > http://search.rootsweb.com/ __________________________________________________________ Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com