http://www.naturalizationrecords.com/canada/national-registration-1940.shtml http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-911.007-e.html http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=93C0006&lang=eng At 03:09 PM 16/01/2012, you wrote: >What is the site for this 1940 National Registration? > >Heather > >-----Original Message----- >From: ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >Behalf Of harvieandliz >Sent: January 16, 2012 5:44 PM >To: ONTARIO@rootsweb.com >Subject: [ONTARIO] it worked! 1940 National Registration > >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 > > >*********** >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

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