For those of you good folk using the Ontario birth records online from Ancestry please note an important change you will see when you view the actual images. I fully expect many brick walls will be broken down! My comments are nothing new for those of us who have had the ability to use the microfilms for the last few months. Beginning in 1908 new questions were asked on birth registrations which have major genealogical implications. Are the parents married? Where were the parents married? When were the parents married? If she (the mother) has been married more than once, give names of former husband or husbands; Is she (the mother) single or a widow? If a widow, state name, occupation & date of husband's death. Mind you some of the answers given, if the response was indeed filled in at all, may surprise you. Indeed some answers seem to be fabricated due to situations. For example, on a 1908 birth registration, the marriage of the parents is recorded to have taken place in 1901 in x location. This was still many years after the couple had been having children (since the 1890's). There is no civil marriage registration recorded for any year for this couple, and I can not find it in the local church records (which are seemingly complete). There is no newspaper announcement in any of the local papers. (Current conclusion: Living together - even though all other records show them to be husband and wife: census, land registry documents, will, tombstone). Just though I should pass these details along for your benefit and use. Cheers! J. Brian Gilchrist, Box 74503, 270 The Kingsway ETOBICOKE, ON M9A 5E2 gilchrists@idirect.com 1966 - 2007: 41 years of research and educating genealogists. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marg McFarlane" <mmcfarla@telusplanet.net> To: <ontario@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:49 PM Subject: [ONTARIO] Ancestry records > Hi List: > > For those of you with subscriptions to Ancestry's Canadian record > collection, or access at your library, FHC, etc, they have added 2 more > years of each type of records: > > Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1909 - New/Updated > Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1934 - New/Updated > Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924 - New/Updated > > Re the marriages, I have found today (Friday) that the search engine is > not working properly, likely due to adding more years of records, as I > can't search by criteria such as parents' names, or location, etc. I > imagine that will be resolved over the next few days. > > Also, I noted that some of the death reg's index entries now include the > names of the parents' for those years when that info was required on the > reg forms. The death reg search screen does not appear to have been > updated yet to include boxes for searching by the names of the parents. > > Anyway, give them time to get everything up to speed and then we can > search like mad!! > > Also, for those of your with ancestors of the Roman Catholic faith, the > Drouin collection of records is not just for Quebec, but is also on > Ancestry for Ontario: > > http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1109&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 > > For a full list of Ontario databases, as well as other databases: > > http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3243&p=5007 > > Marg in Sunny Alberta > > *********** > Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >