1911 Canada Census indexes online

23 new files were added today to the ongoing 1911 Canada Census Surname Index Project:

~ Province of Manitoba - Winnipeg District district #24, Subdistricts 2 - 5
~ Province of Ontario - Grey County Bentinck Township Subdistricts 1-8 including Dornoch Village, Elmwood Village
~ Province of Ontario - Grey County , Keady Village, Sullivan Township District 74, Sub-Districts 27-31 including Williamsford Village, Desboro Village
~ Province of Ontario - Grey County St. Vincent Subdistricts 14 , 17, 18, 21 including Centreville Village
~ Province of Ontario - Cashel Township Hastings County Ontario Subdistrict 2
~ Province of Ontario - Haldimand County, Walpole Township, Selkirk Village District 75, Subdistrict 36

1911 Ontario Census Surname Index update

33 more Census Surname locations went online today at AllCensusRecords.com

SIMCOE COUNTY CENSUS RECORDS:

Simcoe East, 119, Midland, Ward 2 & Ward 3, Tay Twp SubDistrict #31
Simcoe East, 119, Midland, Tay Twp SubDistrict #32
Simcoe East, 119, Midland, completion of Midland Town SubDistrict #33
Simcoe East, 119, Tay Township SubDistrict #18
Simcoe East, 119, Tay Township SubDistrict #19, Fesserton
Simcoe East, 119, Tay SubDistrict, #20, Dollartown, Port McNicol, Dawson
Simcoe East, 119, Tay Township SubDistrict #21, Victoria Harbour
Simcoe East, 119, Tay Township, SubDistrict #22
Simcoe East, 119, Tay Township SubDistrict #23, Victoria Harbour
Simcoe East, 119, Tay Township SubDistrict, #24, Waubaushene
Simcoe East, 119, Penetanguishene Town SubDistrict, #41
Simcoe East, 119, Penetanguishene Town SubDistrict, #42
Simcoe East, 119, Penetanguishene SubDistrict, #43, Completion of Penetanguishene Town
Simcoe East, 119, Matchedash SubDistrict #1
Simcoe East, 119, Medonte SubDistrict #2
Simcoe East, 119, Medonte SubDistrict #3
Simcoe East, 119, Medonte SubDistrict #4
Simcoe East, 119, Medonte SubDistrict #5
Simcoe East, 119, Medonte SubDistrict #6
Simcoe East, 119, Medonte SubDistrict #7


ONTARIO COUNTY CENSUS RECORDS

Ontario County North, SubDistrict #10 Mara
Ontario County North, SubDistrict #11 Mara Township, Atherley Village
Ontario County North, SubDistrict #12 Mara
Ontario County North, SubDistrict #13 Mara
Ontario County North, SubDistrict #14 Mara
Ontario County North, SubDistrict #15 Mara
Ontario County North, SubDistrict #16 Rama
Ontario North, 103, Rama Twp SubDistrict #17
Ontario North, 103, Rama Twp SubDistrict #18
Ontario North, 103, Rama Twp SubDistrict #19
Ontario North, 103, Rama Twp SubDistrict #20
Ontario North, 103, Rama Twp SubDistrict #21

MUSKOKA CENSUS RECORDS

Muskoka, 98, Baxter, Freeman & Gibson SubDistrict #1

Past Voices: Letters Home New Letters online

Past Voices: Letters Home added the following letters today:

John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1825
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1826
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1827
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1828
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1829
S. Ross to E. DeCamp 1832
John DeCamp to William DeCamp of New Jersey 1837
Nelson Franklin Smith, LaFayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana to Lucius d Smith New London, Oneida Co, New York 1843
Cousin Rebecca to to Lucius D. Smith New London, Oneida co, New York 1825
George Egger to Ed Egger Scotland Arkansas 1918
Ed Egger to J. H. Egger Scotland Arkansas 1919
Lizzie Burt to J. H. Egger Scotland Arkansas 1901
S. J. Stanely, Lawsonville Texas to J. H. Egger Scotland Arkansas 1896
Belle to J. H. Egger Scotland Arkansas 1892
James Holland Egger, Jr. to Fannie Clara Kendrick 1867
Belle Kendrick Boyd to Fannie Clara Kendrick Egger 1897

Boston Passenger Lists online 1848-1891

Announcing a new searchable database at the Massachusetts Archives:

Index to passenger names on ships arriving in Boston January 1848 - July 1891.

More ships passenger lists can be searched at Ships Passenger Lists to USA

AllEnglishRecords.com New Genealogy Records

A few new items on AllEnglishRecords.com that may be of interest

Emigrants from Scotland in New York City Almshouse 1819 - 1830

Emigrants from England, Wales & Isle of Man in New York City Almshouse 1819 - 1830

Emigrants from Ireland in New York City Almshouse 1819 - 1830

Brixham Devon Baptisms 1693 - 1781

Ontario & Manitoba 1911 Census INDEXES online

AllCensusRecords.com has just uploaded 25 more Surname Indexes for the 1911 Census of Canada.

Today's new indexes include indexes for Ontario and Manitoba. Volunteers are also working on PEI (Prince Edward Island) and Quebec

Ontario 1911 Census indexes:

York Co., King Twp, Kettleby Village

York Co. Georgina

Grey Co. St. Vincent

Wellington Co. Guelph Township, Ariss and Marden

Wellington Co. Guelph Township

Dufferin County - Shelburne

Dufferin County - Amaranth

Dufferin County - Garafraxa

Dufferin County - Grand Valley

Dufferin County - Luther

Welland County, Wainfleet township,

Hastings County, Wollaston,

Renfrew County, Raglan Twp.,

Nipissing District, Airy and Sabine

See Ontario 1911 Census Records online

1911 Census Surname Indexes for Manitoba

Winnipeg

MacDonald Dist 18, Sub-District 53: Part of Parish St.
Charles and part of lots 47 to 63 in St. Boniface Parish

See Manitoba Census Records Online

Lost Faces Photo Albums Online

Olive Tree Genealogy has updated LOST FACES. The following Family Photo Albums are now online:

Moser, Ziler, Siler, Dietrich Photo Album of Ontario Surnames include Moser, Ziler, Dietrich, Desjardine, Mahoney. Locations include Dashwood, Exeter, Berlin, Walkerton. The families appear to have lived in Waterloo and Middlesex Counties Ontario.

Civil War Era Photo Album of Mrs. W. D. Hanchette Surnames include Hanchette, Bissell, Sigmund, Warren, Hirradale?, Doolittle, Knapp, Graham, Cottrell, Harding. Locations include Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Civil War Era Photo Album Hoover family of Pennsylvania Surnames include: Hoover, Herr, Groff, Souders.
Locations include Lancaster Pennsylvania

LEE, WILLSON, BADENOCH Family Album of Brant County, Ontario Surnames include Lee, Willson, Badenoch, Pepper, Shaver, Muma, Edwards, Blundy, Weaver, Clark, Lever, Green, Drake, Mannen, Bell, Jacobs, heron, Kitchen. Locations include Brantford, London, Ingersoll and Little Falls New York


Barnum-Rayond-Pickard Family New York Surnames include Barnum, Raymond, Marcellus, Pickard, Gould, Woodworth, Humphrey, Cox, Babcock, Candee, Caudee. Locations in New York include Syracuse, Red Creek, Lowville, Binghampton, Gouverneur, Carthage, Copenhagen, Pulaski; Sharpsburg Pennsylvania; Rochelle, Illinois

1901 UK Census FREE for September!

Just wanted to let everyone know about a free special on Ancestry.com for September.

You can search (for free) in the 1901 UK census, so for anyone who has ancestors from England, this is a great opportunity to find them. To view the images you have to pay a fee but the index search details are completely free.

To access your free search, visit AllCensusRecords.com and look on the left side bar for the clickable image.

1911 Canada Census INDEXES update

Today AllCensusRecords.com uploaded several new Surname Indexes for the 1911 Canadian Census

New today:

o Dufferin Co, Orangeville Subdistricts 21,22
o Grey Co, Meaford, St Vincent Township Subdistricts 38,39
o Halton Co, Trafalgar Township Subdistrict 16
o Lincoln Co, Grimsby Subdistrict 52
o Simcoe Co. S, Adjala, Subdistricts 1,2
o Wellington Co., Erin Township, Subdistrict 50
o Wellington Co. Peel Township, Subdistricts 30-33
o Wellington Co Minto Township Subdistricts 28,29

They are best reached from the index to the Ontario Census
indexes

Missouri Newspapers 1866-1911 Online

Olive Tree Genealogy has just uploaded more Missouri Newspaper Transcriptions.

One batch is for Jefferson County Record for the April 1911 issue

Second batch of uploaded files is for Jefferson Democrat issues April, May, Aug, Sept & Oct. 1883

These uploads add to the existing newspaper transcriptions online from 1866-1911. You can view the index of what is available

1911 census indexes Bruce, Durham, Grey, Simcoe, Wellington counties

Today AllCensusRecords.com uploaded the following surname indexes for the 1911 Canadian census:

-Bruce County, Huron Township
-Durham County, CartwrightTownship
-Grey County, St. Vincent Township
-Simcoe County, TinyTownship
-Wellington County, PuslinchTownship - Aberfoyle Village
-Wellington County, PuslinchTownship - Arkell Village
corrections

Thanks to volunteers Adrian Donley, Colleen Andrews,Heather Bertram, Kathryn Morano for their work in indexing these census records.

To see the surnames, start at the index to Ontario Census Records for 1911 and scroll down to the County you want.

Volunteers are needed! Why not pick an area where you are looking for ancestors, and write out the surnames on each census page? It only takes a few minutes and it will help others.

To see what is being worked on, check the Volunteer page


Write to me at olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com and tell me what area you want to index. See full instructions on volunteering for the 1911 Census Surname Indexing Project.

Update 1911 census indexing project - new data

Today AllCensusRecords.com uploaded the following surname indexes for the 1911 Canadian census:

-Dufferin County, Mulmur Township
-Simcoe County, Nottawasaga Township
-Victoria County, Mariposa Township

Thanks to volunteers Joan Rawn and Noreen Sergovitch for their work in indexing these census records.

To see the surnames and counties indexed so far, start at the index to Ontario Census Records for 1911 and scroll down to the County you want.

Volunteers are needed! Why not pick an area where you are looking for ancestors, and write out the surnames on each census page? It only takes a few minutes and it will help others.

Just check the page at to see what is being worked on, then write to me at
olivetreegenealogyATgmail.com (replace the "AT" with @) and tell me what area you want to index.

Polish Genealogy Society of America (PGSA) Genealogy Saturday, Aug 20

PGSA Saturday August 20

Saturday, August 20, 2005 is Genealogy Saturday at the library of the Polish Museum of America, Chicago. The Polish Genealogy Society of America (PGSA) will have
experienced genealogists available at the library from 10 am to 1 pm for consultation. This is open to everyone.

The library and museum are in the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America at 984 Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago, just west of the Kennedy Expressway. There is plenty of free parking. More information and directions at PGSA

There will be no PGSA Genealogy Saturday in September because of the PGSA annual conference in Schaumburg. If you have questions, please send them to
PGSAmerica@aol.com

Steve Morse One Step Search Engines for new CastleGarden.org site

Good news from Steve Morse! He has set up a One Step Search Tool for the new castlegarden.org website

It's in the Castle Garden section of his website under the link "Castle Garden Passengers". There are two tools with that heading -- one that goes to the paid site ancestry.com and the other that goes to this new castlegarden.org site which is free.

Some of things you can do from the one-step site that you can't do from castlegarden.org directly are:

- You can specify all your parameters at one time.
- You can search on year of birth.
- You can search on the passengers age.
- You can specify how you want your results sorted.
- You can display more than 10 hits per page.

Steve also tells me that the castlegarden.org site lacks the ability to do either a starts-with search or a sounds-like search. So there is no way you can search for all the variants of your family name. But they have assigned PIDs (passenger IDs) to all of the records in alphabetical order. So Steve wrote another utility (a Castle Garden Browser) that lets you scroll through the records sequentially to see if names adjacent to the one you found matches your family. That browser is in the Castle Garden section of Steve Morse Website.

Simcoe Co. Orillia Twp 1911 census index ONLINE

Thanks to the hard work of Heather Bertram, AllCensusRecords.com has another 95 pages of the 1911 census indexed and online.

Heather completed an every Surname index for Orillia Township, Simcoe County, Subdistricts 8 to 17. This includes Washago Village, Severn Bridge Village, "Ontario Asylum for Feeble Minded" (Staff & Inmates), Uhthoff Village, and CPR Work Crews

You can start your search at SubDistrict 8

If you prefer you can begin at the Index to Online 1911 Census Records for Ontario

Scroll down to Simcoe County for links to completed indexes.

Once you find a surname of interest, use the link to the online images at Library & Archives Canada to bring up the page(s) for the District and Subdistrict you want.

Updates of new FREE genealogy records

I have a neat little spot on Olive Tree Genealogy that provides daily updates of new genealogy data put online. I just figured out how to do this automatically a few weeks ago and am so excited about it I want to share it with everyone. The records are FREE and they are updated every day. I think you'll find it helpful in your search for miscellaneous records like family bibles, old letters, funeral cards, and much much more.

You can see the list, and click to view the full document, on any of my Genealogy Section pages such as Ships Passenger Lists

Scroll down a bit to "What's New in FREE Genealogy Records" The left side of the yellow box has free trials on Ancestry and Genealogy.com. The right side has the free Olive Tree Genealogy and partner sites documents.

Bookmark the page and you can come back and check every few days to see what new records I've added to the collection.

Castle Garden Website Launching Aug 1, 2005!

The Battery Conservancy is preparing to launch CastleGarden.org on August 1, 2005 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the immigrant depot at Castle Garden on August 1, 1855.

The electronic database project is led by Dr. Ira Glazier, former Director of The Center for Migration Research at The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and Immigration. CastleGarden.org will be a vital resource for the general public and for scholars interested in the history of immigration through the Port of New York.

Also see Castle Garden Ships Passenger Lists 1855-1890 online. Names of passengers on Ships to New York for other years can be viewed at Olive Tree Genealogy Ships Passenger Lists to New York.

1800s Photos: Barnum, Raymond, Pickard Families New York

Don't miss Lost Faces photo albums online! They are from the 1800s and today I'm spotlighting the Barnum-Raymond-Pickard Family New York [35 photos & documents]

Surnames include Barnum, Raymond, Marcellus, Pickard, Gould, Woodworth, Humphrey, Cox, Babcock, Candee, Caudee

Locations in New York include Syracuse, Red Creek, Lowville, Binghampton, Gouverneur, Carthage, Copenhagen, Pulaski; Sharpsburg Pennsylvania; Rochelle, Illinois

This album needs to go to a good home and be with descendants of the families.

Photo Album: Lee, Willson, Badenoch, Pepper, Shaver,Muma, Edwards, Blundy, Weaver, Clark, Lever, Green, Drake, Mannen, Bell, Jacobs, Heron, Kitchen

I have a little corner of my website called Lost Faces. LOST FACES is my collection of Family Photo Albums. One of my little hobbies is going to flea markets and garage sales. Whenever I spot one of those old Photo Albums from the 1800s with family pictures, I have to buy it!

I recently found this Civil War era brass bound photo album in an antique store in Shakespeare Ontario. It is in beautiful condition and every photo except one is labelled! It is Canadian, and the families lived in Ontario. Some had roots in Germany, some in New Jersey

Almost every photo has names in spidery handrwriting. Surnames include Lee, Willson, Badenoch, Pepper, Shaver,Muma, Edwards, Blundy, Weaver, Clark, Lever, Green, Drake, Mannen, Bell, Jacobs, Heron, Kitchen. Locations include Brantford, London, Ingersoll, Little Falls New York

Most seem to be circa 1860s, 1870s, a few very early possibly late 1850s.

I did manage to find information on the folks in this album (burial records, census records, etc), and it is listed on my webpage along with the list of photos and
names.

click on the album called LEE, WILLSON, BADENOCH Family Album of Brant County, Ontario

1911 census index for Waverley, Hillsdale and Craighurst, Medonte Township, Simcoe County

Good news!

An every surname index has been created for the Medonte Township portion of the villages of Waverley, Hillsdale and Craighurst in Simcoe County for the new 1911 census.