Forwarded for Gordon Watts:- ------------------ Greetings All Recent news from the Church of the Latter Day Saints indicates that new advances in scanning software and procedures will greatly add to the availability of digital images and indexes of millions of rolls of microfilm stored in their vast underground vaults. The project is estimated to be completed in less than thirty years, rather that the previous estimated time frame of 120 years. It is expected that in as little as 10 years, much of this vast store of genealogical collection will be available online. To read the full release from the LDS, go to the following URL: http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,40-1-3384-9,00.html Happy Hunting Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, British Columbia Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm

I don't know if anyone can help me but here goes. I'm looking for a family that I know lived on Arthur Street in Ottawa (my 2nd gr grandmother who died at that address in August of 1911) but I can't find where in the Census the areain Ottawa that would be. I thought perhaps Ottawa Center but that isn't it. I'm also looking for Gilmour Street. I have a suspcion that a great aunt ran a boarding house on that street... she did eventually anyway.. and wanted to see if she was there in 1911. She isn't at the address she was in 1901. Does anyone know what areas of Ottawa these would be under? TIA Shirley in BC --------------------------------- Have a question? Yahoo! Canada Answers. Go to Yahoo! Canada Answers

Hi Shirley: One of the best things for you to do is post the FULL names, birthdates, birthplaces, and the address where you think they might be for people you are looking for on the 1911 census and those of us with access to the indexed 1911 census at Ancestry will take a look to see if we can find them for you. You do need to give as complete information on each person as possible as it makes searching using the various search boxes much easier for us. The 1911 census enumerator's handwriting, and many of the pages themselves, are terrible in lots of cases, faded, burnt edges, etc, etc, so sometimes the surname is unreadable but you can find the person if you have the first name, a birth month, a birth year, where they were born. Each of those fields is independantly searchable, or you can combine info, so if you want us to look for them, be as specific and complete with your info as possible. Will be glad to try to help you if you send this info. Marg in Sunny Alberta Shirley MacNutt wrote: >I don't know if anyone can help me but here goes. I'm looking for a family that I know lived on Arthur Street in Ottawa (my 2nd gr grandmother who died at that address in August of 1911) but I can't find where in the Census the areain Ottawa that would be. I thought perhaps Ottawa Center but that isn't it. > > I'm also looking for Gilmour Street. I have a suspcion that a great aunt ran a boarding house on that street... she did eventually anyway.. and wanted to see if she was there in 1911. She isn't at the address she was in 1901. > > Does anyone know what areas of Ottawa these would be under? > > TIA > > Shirley in BC > > >--------------------------------- >Have a question? Yahoo! Canada Answers. Go to Yahoo! Canada Answers > > >==== CAN-ONT-CARLETON Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the CAN-ONT-CARLETON list, send the command "unsubscribe" to CAN-ONT-CARLETON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or CAN-ONT-CARLETON-D-request@rootsweb.com if Digest mode >CAN-ONT-CARLETON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > >