Hiya Daphne! On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 [email protected] wrote: > Hi! > > I've just joined this list in hopes of finding a trace of my relative, > George Ross. He would have been born about 1880, or perhaps a little > earlier. He was in Aberdeen in 1899, and later lived in Toronto, > Ontario, Canada. I'm told he worked as a janitor at the Royal Ontario > Museum - probably prior to 1945, as the ROM can't find a record of him > and their records go back to 1945. He was living in Toronto in 1959, > and would have been about 80 years old then. > > That's all I have. I'm hoping someone will recognize him or will be > able to recommend some way of finding other leads on him. He was a > close relative, but unfortunately the family was not close to him and > we don't have much information about him. Short of going through all > the obits in the Toronto papers for the 1960's, I don't really know > what other resources would be available (and as I don't have access to > these, I'm really stuck!!!) > > Thanks for any help you can give me!!! > > Daphne (Ross) Hurst > Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada Not much help I am afraid, but if you have an old photo of George you might be interested to try a visit to the R.O.M., he might be smiling down at you from the walls! A few decades ago on a visit to the R.O.M. I met a sweet old lady who noticed me studying the murals above the exhibits. Turned out she was a secretary there from the twenties to fourties, and pointed out her younger self as part of a mural in the medeaval (sp?) gallery. The mural is of a joust, the artist used staff as models, the king was the director of course, but the rest of the crowd watching the joust were also employees, and if your grandfather was there then he is probably still enjoying the joust. All the best from the brink of Niagara, Donald.