Ian, Have you looked for your family on the Ontario cemetery guide (which allows you to search for graves by surname and county and township? Or the Historical atlas', as every county has at least one. These books have bios in front and maps in back, with names on the owners name at the time of publishing. Searching by genweb, one per state or province, then one each for each county. I transcribed all the bios for the 1906 atlas for wellington county _http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onwellin/_ (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onwellin/) , and it appears ancestry is posting them on ancestry.ca (for canada) You can get from one genweb to another, and links to the place where you can search for graves or bios. McGill university has built a search engine for all the atlas' and all the maps. Mary in Oregon the bios usually list the place where oldest pioneer came from, all their issue and their marriages are included. They sold them, so people paid to get into the atlas', but then the family wrote the bio. my family didn't have the money to put in a bio. Some atlas' had photos with signature. In a message dated 5/7/2010 5:16:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, iwhite99@yahoo.com writes: In 1820 Peter CRAM left the Comrie area of Perthshire and sailed on the ship Benlomond from Greenock for the port of Quebec City, Canada. He was accompanied by his wife Janet KEY, five sons and three daughters. They were going to join another son, John CRAM and his family who had made the journey two years earlier and settled in Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Upper Canada (now called Ontario). Their son James CRAM (1799-1885) was granted land in Beckwith at Concession 11, lot 20 NE. He married Janet McPHAIL (1807-1874) in 1830, and they had six sons and three daughters in Lanark County, Ontario. Their son Isaac CRAM(1844-1923) married Martha Mary MOFFATT (1849-1921) at Carleton Place, Ontario, in 1868; this partnership producing eight sons and two daughters, still in Lanark County. One of their sons, William Moffatt CRAM (1869-1923) married a Joanna. They lived in Beckwith for some time before moving to Vermont, USA.. They had three daughters and a son Donald James CRAM who was born in Chester, Vermont in 1919. Donald lived his entire life in the USA., and in 1987 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He passed away in 2001. In summary, there is a large number of people from Lanark County, Ontario, and from Perthshire, Scotland who have this brilliant scientist on their family tree. Ian White Member: British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, Canada. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message