Hi Helene You might try for a marriage record. Church are often better at giving out the information. Sheila Behan Helene McRae wrote: > Thanks Pat: > > That's the right McRae but I can't get any further back than that. Have > been searching for his parents for some time. > > Helene > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John & Pat Colongard" <jpcolongard@monarch.net> > To: <SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:40 PM > Subject: Re: [SCTCDN] McRae, James A. > > > Hello Helene - You mentioned James McRae moved to B.C. We have BMD online > at www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca. I had a quick look and there is a James > Alexander McRae who would have been born about 1880. He died in 1961 in > Terrace and that is where I am writing from. We know some of the McRae > family here so if this turns out to be of some interest and I can help at > all, please let me know. Pat. > > > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > > Genealogists don't die, they just lose their census. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > FAMILY HISTORY: a quiltwork of lives > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Thanks Sheila: I do appreciate all the tips/ I have the marriage licence - it says he was born in Aberdeen (but then the ages aren't always stated correctly either) - death certificate says Winnipeg. It seems you are familiar with searching the census - could you tell me what area of Manitoba I should be looking in, for what I was told , the Red River Settlement. I think James had a sister Mary but that doesn't help much as she probably would have been married by 1901. Have gone through quite a few pages but there are so many! Oh well! Maybe something will show up one of these days. Think the different tips are great. Thanks, Helene ----- Original Message ----- From: "norman behan" <behan@mb.sympatico.ca> To: <SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [SCTCDN] McRae, James A. > Hi Helene > > You might try for a marriage record. Church are often better at giving out the > information. > > Sheila Behan > > Helene McRae wrote: > > > Thanks Pat: > > > > That's the right McRae but I can't get any further back than that. Have > > been searching for his parents for some time. > > > > Helene > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John & Pat Colongard" <jpcolongard@monarch.net> > > To: <SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:40 PM > > Subject: Re: [SCTCDN] McRae, James A. > > > > > Hello Helene - You mentioned James McRae moved to B.C. We have BMD online > > at www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca. I had a quick look and there is a James > > Alexander McRae who would have been born about 1880. He died in 1961 in > > Terrace and that is where I am writing from. We know some of the McRae > > family here so if this turns out to be of some interest and I can help at > > all, please let me know. Pat. > > > > > > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > > > Genealogists don't die, they just lose their census. > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > > FAMILY HISTORY: a quiltwork of lives > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > Great, great, grandpa, Where are you? > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >