How did you use the registry?? Jackie harvieandliz wrote: > hi folks, i just used the 1940 National Registration to find a long > lost person..and had success. I am elated and having a hard time > thinking clearly! > > I have posted many times here trying to identify WILLIAM RICHARDSON > born in Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1887. > He emigrated to Canada in 1910 and married in Victoria, BC in 1911. > His first wife died in 1921 and he took his 2 oldest "East" and had the > younger 2 daughters "adopted out". One distant family member told me > she thought he had visited Victoria about 1946 from "the East, maybe > Toronto area". I have been trying to find him because he was my > elderly friend's birth father and she has never known what became of > him. > > So, WILLIAM RICHARDSON lived in Toronto 1940 at 7 Castlefield ave with > a second wife. As expected he was a salesman, manuf. agt. > > Now what? I would appreciate advice on how to proceed. The obvious is > to look thru Toronto Directories. I can "ask a librarian" in a limited > manner, at least to confirm and maybe get wife's name. > I guess I might follow thru to see when he "disappears" from Toronto > Directories, but if he moved, I am sunk...too many "William > Richardsons". But he likely died in Toronto. > Does anyone know of any issues of Toronto Directories that are online? > > what else can I do to follow him to the end of his life? Maybe the next > thing to find out is his death? > > The two oldest daughters are no longer at home in 1940...Dorothy and > Betty. They would be about 25 and 28 by then, likely married. > > I would welcome any tips from this list. > thanks Liz of BC Canada > > > > > > > > > > *********** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: > http://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ > > 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 > > >