I have the following chap, William Williamson, born April 1884 in Lanarkshire, Scotland to his parents Hugh and Susan Williamson. He left Scotland when he was around 19 or 20 years of age, initially going to work in the Copper Mines around Lake Superior, then moved to South America, then back to America, working in Colorado ( this all according to a newspaper report), but he eventually ended up in Keno Hill, Dawson's City, where apparently he owned 4 gold and silver claims in Keno Hill and also a gold mine which was worked for him by 4 miners. He bought the mine for 6,000 pounds ( Stirling) in 1947. We are not sure whether he married, although it is thought that he did not, but while an approx. date of death is 1953, I cannot for the life of me find any references to him. I know that he left quite a sum of money to different family members back in Scotland, but those folks are dead now, and no-one there knows when the family received the money, the only time frame is 'in the 1950's '. Can someone come to my rescue please, I do not know where to start, I have walked and run, through the different web sites, but I am getting no-where fast. I think I am best to try and find his death date first, then perhaps a copy of his will, then that might lead me to a closer look at where these apparent mines were, but can anyone advise me as to WHERE to start. Is there an on-line index to look for his death entry, or if there are any other suggestions, I am only too willing to hear them, as I am truly going around in circles here. I await any ideas or advice. By all means feel free to make contact either via this site or directly frankandlaurie@aumarire.co.nz Thanking you, Laurie Rands New Zealand

To the listowner, I posted the below listing, and it has appeared back on my own system, that is fine, but I have received the following e-mail, which I HAVE NOT opened, but in the content review panel, I have been able to copy the following. Thank you for your e-mail. In an effort to address the growing spam issue and to therefore respond to your e-mail sooner, your e-mail message with the subject of "[SCTCDN] WILLIAM WILLIAMSON, from Scotland to Keno Hill" has been placed in a temporary holding file. It will be delivered immediately after you complete this simple one-time process of checking the link below, in the future, all of your e-mails to me will automatically be delivered: [...] Content analysis details: (7.4 points, 5.0 required) As you can see, it suggest that I have to open up a link, now I really sisn;t want to do that until I was sure that it was ok to do so,,, the reason for this is that my own 'spam system' picked up this e-mail as 'spam', so can ypou advise me whether this is genuine or not. I see that the e-mail address it has come from is quickcop@quick.com Please adise me Laurie Rands -----Original Message----- From: Frank and Laurie [mailto:frankandlaurie@aumarire.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 3:11 p.m. To: SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCTCDN] WILLIAM WILLIAMSON, from Scotland to Keno Hill I have the following chap, William Williamson, born April 1884 in Lanarkshire, Scotland to his parents Hugh and Susan Williamson. He left Scotland when he was around 19 or 20 years of age, initially going to work in the Copper Mines around Lake Superior, then moved to South America, then back to America, working in Colorado ( this all according to a newspaper report), but he eventually ended up in Keno Hill, Dawson's City, where apparently he owned 4 gold and silver claims in Keno Hill and also a gold mine which was worked for him by 4 miners. He bought the mine for 6,000 pounds ( Stirling) in 1947. We are not sure whether he married, although it is thought that he did not, but while an approx. date of death is 1953, I cannot for the life of me find any references to him. I know that he left quite a sum of money to different family members back in Scotland, but those folks are dead now, and no-one there knows when the family received the money, the only time frame is 'in the 1950's '. Can someone come to my rescue please, I do not know where to start, I have walked and run, through the different web sites, but I am getting no-where fast. I think I am best to try and find his death date first, then perhaps a copy of his will, then that might lead me to a closer look at where these apparent mines were, but can anyone advise me as to WHERE to start. Is there an on-line index to look for his death entry, or if there are any other suggestions, I am only too willing to hear them, as I am truly going around in circles here. I await any ideas or advice. By all means feel free to make contact either via this site or directly frankandlaurie@aumarire.co.nz Thanking you, Laurie Rands New Zealand ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== FAMILY HISTORY: a quiltwork of lives ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237