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    1. [K/NIBB/S] British Columbia Database
    2. Don Knibbs
    3. Not sure if anyone has any interests there, but I found a good site with lots of records relating to British Columbia at http://genealogy.about.com/cs/bcrecords/ . It contains several searchable databases of births, marriages, deaths, cemetery records etc. You have to delve into several layers of data to find some of it but I found it extremely worthwhile. I had a fair amount of data I'd gleaned from the LDS IGI about one particular line of my Knibbs and wasn't sure I could trust it. I learned from the IGI that Emily Knibbs was born in Plumstead, Kent in Nov 1853, the daughter of George Edwin Clark Knibbs. She apparently married a Richard Holloway at Plumstead. The next record I have is that they had two sons born in Buffalo, New York - William James Knibbs Holloway (b. Aug 1881) and Richard George Holloway (b. Jun 1883). The IGI then shows Richard the husband and Richard the son both being buried at Vancouver, British Columbia. I was extremely pleased yesterday when I found reference to this family unit in the database mentioned above, which supported the IGI data. I found the death of an Emily HOLLOWAY in Jun 1927 aged 75 years and a cemetery record for "HOLLOWAY Emily Knibbs" at Vancouver. I was concerned that the death record may have been a different Emily, but the cemetery record showing her maiden name confirmed it was the right one. I found the death of her husband Richard and her son Richard at Vancouver, with dates that tied in with the original data from the IGI. There were several other Holloways all buried in the same cemetery under the same reference number so they may well be siblings of William and Richard. I also found a marriage for her older son William James in Vancouver, so I'm sure, if I wanted to delve further into the HOLLOWAYS there was a great deal more to learn. Don

    01/22/2002 02:35:15