Hello everyone

I hope those who celebrated the Canadian Thanksgiving had a
wonderful weekend. It was close to 80' where I live and we
had a couple of gorgeous Fall days. With my son deployed,
our Thanksgiving was rather quiet. We did hear from him and
all is well, so that was definitely something to be
thankful for.

I've been working hard on a new project (Missing Friends)
that I think you are going to enjoy... and last night the
first part of it went live on Olive Tree Genealogy. It's
free of course, so please drop by and check for your
ancestor names. Remember, it's an ongoing project so
bookmark it and drop by every so often to see what new
years are online.

I'm pretty excited about this so hear's what it's all
about:  The Missing Friends Project on
OliveTreeGenealogy.com is extracting the names of those who
immigrated from UK to America or Canada and who were
inquired about by family in various 19th Century
newspapers.

This project can be freely searched at
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/MissingFriends/

Missing Friends Project starts with Lloyd's Weekly
Newspaper, published in London England and their weekly
column (1886-1900) called "Long Lost Relatives".

The fields being extracted are name of person in America or
Canada who is missing, where they lived in the UK, when
they left, where they intended going, ship name if known,
when they were last heard from, where they were living when
last heard from, who is seeking them and any miscellaneous
comments.

If you have ancestors who settled in America or Canada from
the mid 1800s to 1900 you may want to have a look

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/MissingFriends/

It's a huge job and right now I'm working on this alone, so
please be patient as I extract more names from these
newspapers.

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New on AncestorsAtRest.com - Brian has put another Maine
ledger book online. This great old ledger book was the
property of Samuel Hinds, of Lincoln County Maine. The
ledger starts in 1832 and has 169 pages containing hundreds
of local Lincoln County Maine names.

They are living in places like Bristol, Bremen, Dresden, St
George.  All the pages from the ledger have been scanned
and put online so you can browse the entire book freely.

If you want to take a look for one of your ancestors go to

http://www.ancestorsatrest.com/maine.shtml

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To see what announcements and data were put online on
OliveTreeGenealogy Blog in October, please visit
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.ht
ml

If this wraps to 2 lines, go to
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/  and scroll down
(way down!) til you see OCTOBER on the right hand side bar,
then click to view the October files

So far, we have

Reading 17th Century Dutch Handwriting - Introduction +
Parts 1,2,3,4,& 5

More Loyalist Petitions - an example

Upper Canada Land Petition for a Loyalist Ancestor

Membership Lists New Amsterdam (New York City) Dutch
Reformed Church, Question & Answer

Cousins Removed versus 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Cousins - - an
Explanation

Stephen Peer, Tighrope Walker of Niagara Falls

October Ancestor Most Wanted - $100.00 Reward
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September Articles
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.ht
ml   or http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and click
on SEPTEMBER in the right side bar

September Articles posted since our last OliveTreeGenealogy
newsletter are too numerous to list here, but they include

Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (New York) ...

A Guide to Searching the Canadian Ships Passenger ...

New Canadian Collection Part of International News...

Ellis Island Phonetic Matching now possible!

GenSoftReviews Site Launched

Records Of The Reformed Dutch Church Of Albany, Ne...

Finding Ancestors in Passport Records

Cherchez la femme! or How to distinguish between m...

Understanding Diminuitives in 17th Century New Yor...

Patronymics - or understanding names that have you...

What's in a Name?

O'Kelly Chapel records, North Carolina, online 185...

Rensselaer County New York Marriages online

Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935

Kansas Genealogical Society Conference

Displaying Family Heirlooms - WW1 Medals and Photo...

Illinois State Genealogical Society Conference

9 Million Historic Philadelphia Records Now Search...

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Enjoy and feel free to tell others about anything you found
interesting or worthwhile for other genealogists.

Lorine



-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Hi everyone,

I just had to share this exciting news with everyone:

Incoming UK Ships Passenger lists are now online!
Genealogists can now search for ancestors on UK Incoming
Ships Passenger Lists, 1878-1960

These new passenger lists include OUTBOUND lists from
Canada and America as well as other countries such as
Australia, all heading for ports in the United Kingdom.

Read more about this terrific new Ancestry resource at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

Neither Canada or America maintained "outbound" passenger
lists. The records for all these ship passengers travelling
between 1890 and 1960 are the only United Kingdom "inbound"
lists, but prior to this month, they were not indexed, nor
microfilmed.

The original inbound lists were kept at Public Record
Office in Kew, England, and they could only be viewed in
person. Now they are online and I've been having a lot of
fun finding my own ancestors going back to England &
Ireland from Canada. Sometimes they went for a visit, other
times they had been visiting here in Canada or in America
and were going back home.

I hope you enjoy this new resource as much as I am.

Lorine

-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Ontario Voter's Lists 1867-1900 are now online. I took a
few minutes to search them this morning for my own
ancestors, and it's well worth having a look.

                   http://tiny.cc/uJ1kJ

Some years have information - name of voter, residence, and
whether the individual was an occupant, owner or tenant of
the home he was in. Even though it may seem basic, it helps
determine where and if an ancestor was living in those
years.

Voter registers are valuable records to use as census
substitutes, since they will usually contain the names of
heads of households and other adults.

Although the title of this database is ONTARIO Voter's
List, I found over 500 names from Montreal Centre, Quebec
in the 1867 lists.  I also found hundreds of women even
though the description of the database states that no women
are on these lists.

So that makes even more reason to search Ontario Voter's
Lists 1867-1900 - there ARE women on the list and there are
names from Quebec as well as Ontario.

You can read more and follow the link to this database at
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog at http://tiny.cc/uJ1kJ

Feel free to pass this message on to other lists if it's on
topic or to others who you think might be interested.

Lorine


-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Hello everyone

There seems to be renewed interest in tracing an ancestor
who arrived in Canada before 1865 - a challenging time
period!

This is an update to the original note I wrote in February
2007 about Immigration Projects Online and ships passenger
lists to Canada before 1865.

Remember that before 1865, Canada did not require ships
passenger lists to be kept so these projects may be all you
can find for an ancestor's arrival

Some of the URLs below are more than one line long and
cannot be clicked on in email. You can always go to
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/canada/ and use the
clickable links there to get to all of these free records

*  Return of Irish Catholic (Counties Wexford & Carlow)
families who Sailed from New Ross to Upper Eastern Canada
in  1817

http://ancestorsatrest.com/ireland_genealogy_data/ireland_to
_canada_1817

  *  Peter Robinson Settlers sailing 1825 Ireland to Canada
Final settlement took place in Peterborough Ontario

  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

  *  St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819-1836

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_20inde
x.htm

* Alms House Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records with
Ships Names 1819 - 1840 (New York City, New York) includes
individuals  who had sailed into Canada first

  http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/ny_alms1819.shtml

* The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent
Anthony B. Hawke  are  available at the Archives of
Ontario from 1831 to 1892. Searchable database 1865 - 1883
at
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/db/hawke.htm

* Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents with
sailings from Londonderry Ireland to Quebec and St. John
New Brunswick from 1847 to 1871.

  http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke

* People from the Fitzwilliam estate in Ireland who settled
in Ontario, 1847-1855 Settlement in East half of Ontario

http://ancestorsatrest.com/ireland_genealogy_data/wicklow_on
tario_fitzwilliam_estate

* A Story of Emigration: Southwest Wicklow (Ireland) to
Ontario 1840s Settlement in West half of Ontario

http://www.bytown.net/wicklowemigrants.htm

*  Names of Emigrants from the 1845-1847 Records of James
Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/emigrants-montreal1845-
1847a.htm

* Partial Ships Passenger Lists 1850-1855.  Names of
Individuals in the New York Almshouse who arrived in Canada
before going on to New York (includes name of ship, date of
arrival and more)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ny_alms1855.htm

* Return of Emigrants Landed at the Port of Kingston
Ontario, Canada 1861-1882  gives the final
destination of the individuals, their date of arrival at
Kingston and more.

  http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/kingston1861oct-
1862may

* Petworth Immigrants 1832-1837
http://theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/petworth.html

* Emigrants from England in New York City Almshouse 1818-
1830 - 254 names of English immigrants to Canada & USA
including the name of the ship they sailed on

  http://www.allenglishrecords.com/almshouse-a-f

*  Irish Immigrants at Grosse-Île -  33,026 immigrants
whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Île
Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-504-e.html

*  Search most ships lists on the Internet going to Canada
and the online InGeneas databases for immigration to Canada
1800s
  http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada

*  Saint John New Brunswick Customs House Passenger Lists
1815, 1832, 1833-1834 & 1837-1838 -  the only known
surviving lists from this time period before 1865
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/saintjohnin
dex.htm

* Colonial Archives Database contains over 70,000 detailed
descriptions of  documents in the archival collection
mainly of the British and French colonial periods.
http://www.archives.ca/02/020112_e.html

* Index to Miscellaneous Immigrants to Canada Before 1865 A
number of lists have been indexed by name in this database.
Many of the records relate to immigrants from the British
Isles to Quebec and Ontario, but there are also references
to settlers in other provinces. The database also includes
other types of records such as declarations of aliens and
names of some Irish orphans.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/immigrants-
canada/index-e.html

Remember - if you can't click on some of the URLs above you
can always go to
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/canada/ and use the
clickable links there to get to all of these free records

Best of luck in your research and feel free to pass this
message on to any list or person you think would be
interested.




-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Hi everyone,

Only 10 more days til Christmas, for those who celebrate it. I am busy
preparing for a dinner for 16 on the 28th. I'm looking forward to it
but it is tinged with sadness too, as my son is deployed in
Afghanistan (for the third time) and won't be with us this year.
However we will still celebrate and enjoy family while keeping him in
our hearts and minds.

December has not seen much activity on OliveTreeGenealogy.com or its
sister sites. I hope to be back in full swing in January but meantime
here are some items that might be of interest

November free data put online can be found at
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/free1108.shtml

I've kept up with my blog posts and articles and here are a few from
December that might interest you.

******
First Canadian Christmas Carol - The Huron Carol Jesous Ahatonhia

The first Canadian Christmas Carol was written by a Jesuit Missionary
(Jean de Brebeuf) circa 1643 for the Huron Indians in the wilderness
of what is now Ontario. The Jesuits ministered to the Hurons at Ste
Marie - a wilderness fortified village. I have put the words to this
beautiful carol in Huron-Wendat language, and English, on my blog. As
well I've put a video which features a beautiful rendition in Huron,
French and then English. This carol ties into my ancestry in several
different ways and I thought readers might find it of interest

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/
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Cabinet of Curiosities: A Christmas Toast!

My great-grandmother Sarah Jane Simpson, who was born in England in
1862, owned this toast rack. Sarah lived in Ramsgate England, where
she kept a boarding house. I suspect she used this toast rack on the
table for her family and boarders. Pictures and story at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/12/cabinet-of-curiosities-christmas-\
toast.html

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Q & A Time: Ships Passenger List ca 1859 to USA or Canada?
I often respond to queries on mailing lists. I established 2 Rootsweb
mailing lists for Ships Passenger lists
(can-shipslists-pre1865@... &
US-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1820@...) and another 2 for Naturalization
records (CAN-Naturalizations@... &
USA-Naturalizations@...) several years ago and as List Admin
I follow them closely. But I also read other immigration mailing lists
and jump in when I can. The following is an example that I thought
might be of interest. It's a query and it's very well written (which
sad to say is unusual on mailing lists. Read how I found Tony's
ancestors on a ships passenger list at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/12/q-time-ships-passenger-list-ca-18\
59-to.html

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December Ancestor Most Wanted - Quebec, Michigan, Ontario at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/12/december-ancestor-most-wanted-que\
bec.html

December Ancestor Most Wanted - $75.00 Reward

The Ancestor Most Wanted this month is not mine, but my husband's.
William Ivis Massey was born 16 Nov 1847 in Quebec to William Massey
and Ellen (Eleanor) Montgomery. I've already had several readers
respond, one woman found a record I needed and won one of the $75.00
rewards (there are several) but graciously refused it, saying she
loved the hunt and thanking me for my website. Wow, talk about a nice
Christmas present!

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Christmas Tour: Christmas Past & Present at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-tour-christmas-past-pre\
sent.html

This slide show of Christmas Past & Present is 1 and 1/2 minutes long.
It starts in the 1950s and ends in 2008. I hope you enjoy the glimpse
into the past!

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Genealogy Stocking Stuffer For My Father at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/12/genealogy-stocking-stuffer-for-my\
.html

The 8th Edition of Smile For the Camera: Stocking Stuffer asks us to
"Show us that picture that would make a great Stocking Stuffer and
tell us whose stocking you'd stuff." My father died Christmas Day when
I was 13 years old, and this is for him.

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Carnival of Genealogy: Famous Canadian Ancestor Eileen Vollick, first
licenced female pilot in Canada at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/12/carnival-of-genealogy-famous-cana\
dian.html

Kathryn at LookingForAncestors Blog had a great idea for the Carnival
of Genealogy: My Famous Canadian Ancestor. I've already posted about
my circus cousins the Marriott Twins and my cousin who walked Niagara
Falls on a tightrope.

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Carnival of Genealogy: My Famous Canadian Ancestor in the Circus at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/12/carnival-of-genealogy-my-famous_0\
7.html

Albert George Marriott and his twin brother were my 3rd cousins, twice
removed. Both were born in Guelph Ontario in June 1882. The winning of
a baton contest in the old Guelph skating rink gave the Marriott twins
their start for 60 years in show business.

There are more. All of December's posts are at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html

Enjoy and have a wonderful holiday!

Lorine

Happy New Year! I hope 2009 will prove to be sucessful in
every way.

December was a busy month so I didn't have too much time to
bring new data online. However I do have some news that I
think is kind of exciting.

Some of you probably know that I read and answer a lot of
questions on various genealogy mailing lists. I've been
doing this for years but I decided that starting in 2009 I
would use a slightly different method.

Don't get me wrong, I am still going to respond to mailing
list queries whenever possible. But I thought there was a
better way to help other researchers, so I started a Blog
called  Ask Olive Tree.  It's at
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/

AskOliveTree is a central place where I can post your
questions and my answers, and  where anyone dropping by can
read them - and join in! Yes, anyone can leave a comment on
any of the queries and answers on AskOliveTree.

Do you need help finding an ancestor? Do you have a
genealogy question you would like to ask me? Do you want to
know where to find certain genealogy records?

You can ask any kind of question from "How do I find my
grandpa Harry on a ships' passenger list from Ireland to
New York in the 1800s?" to "What's the Dutch name for
Anna?" to "What does the British Bonus System mean?" (all
of these are actual questions asked and answered)

If you want help finding an elusive ancestor, please be
sure that you provide me with a concise (brief) summary of
your ancestor with dates and locations. Tell me where you
have looked and what you want to find out.

Basically I want to help - either by finding your elusive
ancestor, or by directing you to the sources you need to
find him/her yourself or by answering a question about
resources or name and boundary changes or.... whatever!

The email address to use if you want to submit a question
is askolivetree@...

So take a peek at my new site
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/  Ask Olive Tree. Read a
few of the queries already posted and then flex your typing
fingers and send me a question.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Lorine
-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Hi everyone

I hope your January weather is being kinder to you where you live
than it is to me. It has been 20 and 30 below zero for several days
and we have had blizzards, ice storms and high winds. Even for
Canada this is miserable!

There hasn't been much time recently for me to add new data to
http://www.OliveTreeGenealogy.com or any of my other sites as my 93
year old mother has been in hospital for a few weeks now.

She underwent surgery for a bowel obstruction and is now facing a
second operation for post-surgery complications. She was not given
much hope of pulling through the first operation but has surprised
everyone with her determination.  Right now she is holding her own
and we are waiting to hear about the second possible surgery.

********
During the first week of my mother's stay in hospital when she was
not given much hope of lasting more than a few days, I sat up one
night and wrote her obituary. I wanted to get the facts of her life
down on paper while my thoughts were relatively clear.

Trying to write my mother's obit led me to think about the
importance of finding out things from our loved ones before it is
too late.  I wrote about this and it is called "The Things I Thought
I Knew But Don't " and can be read at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/01/things-i-thought-i-
knew-but-dont.html

You can also see that post plus others written in January by going
to the January Archives list at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

The short URL for this is http://tiny.cc/et5TS

*************
Other Blog Posts in January include:

Putting Flesh on the Genealogy Bones
The Name Game Part 2
The Name Game
Tracking the Elusive Fanny Downey McGinnis
Carnival of Irish Heritage: My Key to Ireland
Ancestors Walking in a Winter Wonderland
1911 UK Census Launches Jan. 13/09 - more counties...
Toronto Ontario 1861 Census Transcriptions
Are You My Grandfather?
Happy Birthday to my 3rd great-grandmother Elizabeth Higginson
To Believe or Not To Believe, That is the Question...
Hudson's Bay Company Archives
Ellis Island Missing (Cabin) Manifests, 1897-1903

See http://tiny.cc/et5TS to read any of the above posts

*************
My new project AskOliveTree at http://askolivetree.blogspot.com is
going well. This is a blog where researchers send me genealogy or
history questions at askolivetree@... and I respond. I choose
one question each day to answer and post on the new blog. If you
asked a question and are wondering if it has been answered yet, here
is a brief summary of questions asked and answered since Jan. 1st

You might also find some of the answers helpful in your own research
even if you are not the person who asked the original question.
AskOliveTree! Is not a lookup service, my hope is to direct you to
the sources (online and offline) you need to find your answer.
However in several of the cases below you'll find that I did find
the ancestor or the event requested.

I have included the date of the response, the title, the first name
of the person asking, and the first part of the original question
below

* Saturday, January 17, 2009
How do I find a ship from France to Canada in 1630s?
Diane wrote: I'm looking for a ship's passenger list for Le Soleil
1638 which sailed from France to

* Thursday, January 15, 2009
Looking for Robert McMorland on Ships Passenger List Scotland to New
York
Diana wrote: Just wondering if you would please do a lookup for
Robert MCMORLAND

* Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Searching in Canada for Englishman
Bill & Helen wrote: Looking for information on a place called Fort
Good Hope in the NW Terrortories.

* Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Help with Hudson Bay Company Fur Trappers in California
On Jan. 6/09 Hazel asked:I have been collecting information about
Fur Trappers that arrived in Northern California prior to the Gold
Rush.

* Monday, January 12, 2009
Looking for Annetje Bradt's Death Date
Linda wrote: Is there any source for Annteje Barents Bradt's death?

* Sunday, January 11, 2009
How to find parents of English Ancestors who came to America
Mike asked on Jan. 6/09: My great-great-great grandparents are:James
(no middle name) Gumm

  * Saturday, January 10, 2009
Where can I find Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839
Don wrote on Jan. 6/09: I have been trying to find William and
Elizabeth Graham and their son William who immigrated to Canada from
Ireland in the early 1830s.

* Friday, January 9, 2009
Need help with GG-Grandfather Benjamin Cole in MIchigan
On Jan 5/09 Nancy asked me... Neila Arabelle Cole was born the 14th
of April 1897 in Michigan

* Thursday, January 8, 2009
Trying to find city or village of grandfather's birth
Joe S. asked me on Jan 4/09 .... I am trying to locate a city or
village where my grandfather (John Szudarek- now spelled Shudarek)
came from.

* Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Cannot Find Ancestor Arriving USA from Germany
On 12 Dec 2008 Tony wrote: I am searching the ship on which my
ancestors arrived in the New World.

* Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Finding Russian Jewish immigration in Naturalization Records
On Jan. 3/09 Irene asked : (Jewish) Grandpa Harry STONE

* Monday, January 5, 2009
John & Florinda Kennedy from USA in Leeds Grenville County Ontario
Tish asked Florinda was married to John Kennedy who died about 1846
in Leeds-Grenville County. She had a son

* Sunday, January 4, 2009
Thomas Fitzsimmons & Harriet Eliza Barnes, USA & Canada
Dan of Pennsylvania asked I am looking for the birth record and
ancestors of: Margaret FITZSIMMONS, believed to have been born in
London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada ca 1847.

* Sunday, January 4, 2009
Peter Jamison Ireland to America
Janet asked... Peter Jamison came to the US in 1866. What part of
Ireland was he born? What port did he leave from and which port did
he arrive?

* Saturday, January 3, 2009
Daniel Dodge & Elizabeth Sternberg LIncoln & Oxford Counties Ontario
Adrienne asked:Still looking for the parents of Daniel Dodge, born
probably around 1775 He married Elizabeth Sternberg

* Sunday, January 3, 2009
William McInnes born 1865 Canada Lived Massachusetts
Betty wrote: Mary Ann KERR, born in the Province of Quebec, married
a William McINNES who had been born in Canada / English ~1865.

* Saturday, January 10, 2009
Where can I find Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839
Don wrote on Jan. 6/09: I have been trying to find William and
Elizabeth Graham and their son William who immigrated to Canada from
Ireland in the early 1830s.

* Friday, January 9, 2009
Need help with GG-Grandfather Benjamin Cole in MIchigan
On Jan 5/09 Nancy asked me... Neila Arabelle Cole was born the 14th
of April 1897 in Michigan

* Thursday, January 8, 2009
Trying to find city or village of grandfather's birth
Joe S. asked me on Jan 4/09 .... I am trying to locate a city or
village where my grandfather (John Szudarek- now spelled Shudarek)
came from.

* Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Cannot Find Ancestor Arriving USA from Germany
On 12 Dec 2008 Tony wrote: I am searching the ship on which my
ancestors arrived in the New World.

* Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Finding Russian Jewish immigration in Naturalization Records
On Jan. 3/09 Irene asked : (Jewish) Grandpa Harry STONE

* Monday, January 5, 2009
John & Florinda Kennedy from USA in Leeds Grenville County Ontario
Tish asked Florinda was married to John Kennedy who died about 1846
in Leeds-Grenville County. She had a son

* Sunday, January 4, 2009
Thomas Fitzsimmons & Harriet Eliza Barnes, USA & Canada
Dan of Pennsylvania asked I am looking for the birth record and
ancestors of: Margaret FITZSIMMONS, believed to have been born in
London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada ca 1847.

* Sunday, January 4, 2009
Peter Jamison Ireland to America
Janet asked... Peter Jamison came to the US in 1866. What part of
Ireland was he born? What port did he leave from and which port did
he arrive?

* Saturday, January 3, 2009
Daniel Dodge & Elizabeth Sternberg LIncoln & Oxford Counties Ontario
Adrienne asked:: Still looking for the parents of Daniel Dodge, born
probably around 1775 He married Elizabeth Sternberg

* Sunday, January 3, 2009
William McInnes born 1865 Canada Lived Massachusetts
Betty wrote: Mary Ann KERR, born in the Province of Quebec, married
a William McINNES who had been born in Canada / English ~1865.

********
And here is a brief list of the questions I have answered and which
are scheduled for posting in the upcoming week. Remember, the title
you see is the title I gave the post, it is not the original subject
of the email sent to me:

* Looking for an ancestor from Germany to New York to Galveston
Texas… Question from Yvonne  scheduled  1/25/09
* Why Buy Land and Not Live There? Question from Judy  scheduled
1/24/09
* Would our ancestors go directly to a location to settle...
Question from Betty scheduled  1/23/09
* Using County Clerk Records to Find Answers… Question from Kate
scheduled  1/22/09
* What is a Half-Orphan? New York, Orphanages… Question from Nancy
scheduled  1/21/09
* Looking for a Death Record in Michigan or Ontario… Question from
Pat scheduled  1/20/09
* Looking for German immigrant to USA 1850s…  Question from Linda
scheduled  1/19/09
* Where can I find the ship Samuel Badger? Question from Sandy
scheduled  1/18/09

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Last but certainly not least, I discovered an amazing website that
is a boon to those with Ontario Canada roots. If you have not been
there already you may want to visit http://ourontario.ca/

OurOntario.ca: contains digital collections of libraries, archives,
museums, historical societies, community groups, government agencies
and private collections in Ontario, all in one search.

That's it for today, good luck in your genealogy searches!

Lorine

Hello friends and fellow researchers,

My 92 year old mother passed away early Wednesay morning. I visited
her Tuesday afternoon in the hospital. When I went to kiss her
goodbye, she tried to raise her head, and my glasses hit her cheek.
She laughed at our bumping of heads. As I left she smiled and waved.

I'm glad I have that nice last memory of her. While I am sad that
she is gone, she lived a full and healthy life up to the end.

This is her obituary and a brief slideshow in her memory:

Joan McGinnis 2 Sept 1916-22 Jan 2009

  http://tinyurl.com/cq9q96

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  Questions asked and being answered in the coming week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

- Looking for Margaret Walsh in Pennsylvania question by Toni
scheduled  2/1/09

- Finding an Ancestor from America in Upper Canada  question by Lara
scheduled  1/31/09

- What is the Dutch name for Anna?  question by Saja423 scheduled
1/30/09

- What is the British Bonus System? question by  Marina scheduled
1/29/09

- Ships Passenger Lists Outbound from USA question by Nan scheduled
1/28/09

- Using Naturalization Records to find a Ships Passenger List
question by Janet scheduled  1/27/09

- Using Google and Online Family Trees Family Trees, question by
Bill scheduled 1/26/09

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Questions asked and answered last week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

* Looking for an ancestor from Germany to New York to Galveston
Texas… Question from Yvonne 1/25/09

* Why Buy Land and Not Live There? Question from Judy
1/24/09

* Would our ancestors go directly to a location to settle...Question
from Betty 1/23/09

* Using County Clerk Records to Find Answers… Question from Kate
1/22/09

* What is a Half-Orphan? New York, Orphanages… Question from Nancy
1/21/09

* Looking for a Death Record in Michigan or Ontario… Question from
Pat 1/20/09

* Looking for German immigrant to USA 1850s… Question from Linda
1/19/09

* Where can I find the ship Samuel Badger? Question from Sandy
1/18/09

If you would like to ask a genealogy or history question please
submit your query to askolivetree@...

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Last but not least, Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958
are online at http://pilot.familysearch.org

Those with Irish ancestry can have fun searching, but remember these
are indexes only, the full record is not available online

Happy Birthday to OliveTreeGenealogy.com! In the winter of 1995 a
small version of Olive Tree Genealogy appeared but the full version
complete with the name in the URL did not arrive until February
1996. This month Olive Tree Genealogy is 13 years old. That's 13
years of bringing free data online for all to use! I hope the
teenage years are as good as the first 13!

You can read about Olive Tree's birth and toddler years up to the
present at

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/olive-tree-genealogy-history.shtml

Or use this short URL to get there

http://tiny.cc/zJgwA

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Questions asked and being answered in the coming week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

  *   The Van Sickelen, Van Sickles Family in New Netherland.  asked
by Jim

Tag Words: New Netherland, Van Sickles

  *    Complete Your Research using One Set of Records before jumping
to the next   asked by  Karen

Tag Words: Canadian Census, Census, Dill, Huron County, Ontario

  *  Finding an Immigrant Ancestor in Census - Be Creative with
Spelling!   asked by Jan

  Tag Words: American Census, Census Records, Guilfoyle

  *  When was the Barge Office used for Ships Arriving in New York?
asked by Linda

  Tag Words: Barge Office, Castle Garden, Ellis Island

  *  Finding an unknown first wife's name and death year in Minnesota
or Iowa   asked by Nona

  Tag Words: Census, Iowa, Minnesota, Rosenthal, Stehn

  *  How Do I find Miss Rye's Home Children records?  asked by Kim

Tag Words: Canada, England, Home Children, Miss Rye's Homes

  *  Looking for Cornelia Van Alstyne asked by Bill
Tag Words: Albany, Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia, Van Alstyne

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Questions asked and answered last week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

- Looking for Margaret Walsh in Pennsylvania question by Toni

- Finding an Ancestor from America in Upper Canada question by Lara

- What is the Dutch name for Anna? question by Saja423

- What is the British Bonus System? question by Marina

- Ships Passenger Lists Outbound from USA question by Nan

- Using Naturalization Records to find a Ships Passenger List
question by Janet

- Using Google and Online Family Trees Family Trees, question by Jim

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I've been unpacking the dozen boxes I brought back from my mother's
apartment last week.  In my blog I talk about clearing her apartment
after her death, bringing the boxes (and her ashes) home, and
starting the massive job of unpacking and sorting. All sorts of
questions arise as one undertakes something like this -  What
genealogy treasures will be found? What to do with the mementoes of
her life that need to be passed on to her grandchildren and great-
grandchildren? How to preserve and share her writing, trip diaries
and memoirs?

Join us at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ to take part
in the discussion or just to read about the progress I am making.
Here is what readers and I have been discussing so far:

* Packing Up A Life (Excerpt: How do you pack up a life? That is
what my brother and I had to do this past Monday and Tuesday.....)

* Packing Up A Life, Day 2 (Excerpt: Day 1 of packing up my mother's
belongings from her apartment was over.....)

* Almost a Dozen Boxes of Life, Where do I Begin?  (Excerpt:
Yesterday I looked at the 11 large cardboard boxes and 2 huge
plastic tubs containing my mother's life. ...)

* Unpacking the Genealogy Treasures (Excerpt: These are a few of the
items found in the first box I unpacked. Mother's Pilot Log Book was
a suprise....)

Have a great February and good luck in your genealogy searches,
Lorine

Hello Everyone,

Here is what's new in the online Genealogy World

1. New at Library and Archives Canada:

1891 Canadian Census is available for searching

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/index-e.html

2. Family Search is requesting volunteers to help index the Ontario
1861 census.  See
http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/home/home.jsf to join this
project.

3. Ancestry.com ($) has added more records including

Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925

London, England, Marriage Licences, 1521-1869

See http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ancestry.shtml for links and a
list of other new genealogy databases

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Next week  these questions and my answers will be published on
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/

So far I only have 4 ready to go but I am working on others to fill
up next week's roster.

* The Van Sickelen, Van Sickles Family in New Netherland. from Jim
Tagwords: New York, Van Sickles, Van Valkenburg

* Looking for Marriage Record to find Parents' Names. from Sandi
Tagwords: Burd, New Jersey, Orange County New York, Vital
Statistics

  * When in Doubt Check the Original Record from Carrie
Tagwords: Gorman, Minnesota, Transcription Errors, Wisconsin

* Looking for missing uncle in Oklahoma from Jerry
Tagwords: California, City Directories, Death Records, Foreman,
Oklahoma, Social Security Death Index, SSDI

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Questions asked and answered last week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

  *    Complete Your Research using One Set of Records before
jumping to the next   asked by  Karen

  *  Finding an Immigrant Ancestor in Census - Be Creative
  with Spelling!   asked by Jan

  *  When was the Barge Office used for Ships Arriving in New
York?   asked by Linda

  *  Finding an unknown first wife's name and death year in
  Minnesota or Iowa   asked by Nona

  *  How Do I find Miss Rye's Home Children records?  asked
  by Kim

  *  Looking for Cornelia Van Alstyne asked by Bill

If you have a genealogy or history question, you can ask for help
with it by writing to askolivetree@...

I can't answer every question sent in but I choose one each day to
respond to.

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These are the posts made to Olive Tree Genealogy blog at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com in the past week:

* The Joy of Genealogy
* Genealogy Jewellery
* The Value of Military Records
* Another Genealogical Mystery Solved
* A Photograph Leads to More Genealogy Discoveries
* Ontario Genealogical Society 2009 Conference
* Unpacking the Genealogy Treasures

Enjoy! Remember you can keep current with the Olive Tree Genealogy
blog by clicking on the FOLLOW THIS BLOG button on the right hand
side.
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You might have heard the term "social networking". Have you wondered
what that is? Social Networking sites focus on building online
communities of people who share similar interests and activities.

Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and
others are becoming a genealogist's mecca. Facebook for example now
has many genealogy groups and blogs.

You can become a Fan of Olive Tree Genealogy website on Facebook, by
going to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-
Genealogy/16127378259

A shorter URL is http://tiny.cc/PNywS
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The AskOliveTree blog and the OliveTreeGenealogy blog are also
available as Facebook blogs at

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/ask_olive_tree/
  or http://tiny.cc/FnGy3

and

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/olive_tree_genealogy/  or
http://tiny.cc/atoJ6

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If you're on Twitter, you can find and follow me at
http://twitter.com/LorineMS

Enjoy!
Lorine

Happy belated Valentine's Day everyone!  I hope you all enjoyed
yourselves. I didn't do anything special yesterday but this morning
we went out for breakfast as our "celebration". I love Blueberry
Pancakes with real Canadian Maple Syrup and that's what I had. :-)

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Genealogy and Family Hope Chest

A series of Blog Posts on creating a Genealogy and Family Hope Chest
has been started on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog. Steps 1 to 5 are
already posted and you may find it of some interest.

  It's easiest to start at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/
and look for the label on the right hand side "Genealogy Family Hope
Chest" Click on that link and you will see all the posts plus
photos.

Your feedback is always welcome! Just post a comment on the blog,
it's easy to do. Perhaps you have an idea I didn't mention - please
let me know!

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BlackSheep Ancestors

The next topic for the Canadian Genealogy Carnival is Black Sheep
Canadian Ancestors and I've been asked to host it. I'm quite excited
about this!

Do you have a blacksheep ancestor in your family tree? Maybe one of
your ancestors was a rogue, a scoundrel, a cad or just someone
who "done Grandma wrong... "

Did great-grandma spend time in prison? Was Grandpa a bigamist? Did
Great-Uncle Harry try to set fire to his neighbour's house? Most of
us have one or two rebellious ancestors who didn't quite fit the
mold. Even if you haven't got a blacksheep Canadian ancestor, tell
us about any blacksheep Canadian.

See http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ for submission
information. There are 5 prizes to be given out - 5 books on
Researching Canadian Ancestors which Ancestry.ca has donated for the
carnival.

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Ask Olive Tree

My new blog AskOliveTree.blogspot.com is going very well and I have
lots of challenging questions in the queue to answer. Don't forget
to send me a note at askolivetree@... if you have a genealogy
or history question you'd like me to tackle.

Questions  answered last week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

* The Van Sickelen, Van Sickles Family in New Netherland.
from Jim

* Looking for Marriage Record to find Parents' Names. from
Sandi

  * When in Doubt Check the Original Record from Carrie

* Looking for missing uncle in Oklahoma from Jerry

* Genealogy Research in Russia from Ray

* FInding out what abbreviations in City Directories mean from Cathie

* Looking for Passenger List of Hopewell 1635 from
Gail

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Questions  being answered next week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

*   Terence wrote to ask: Help with Pier Family in New Netherland!

*     Brian's Question: Finding James Garrett before 1874

*   Jerry asked about Finding Proof of Parents in 18th Century New
Jersey

  *   Beryle asked about Military Records in United Kingdom

  *   Sandra asked:  Who was Hillegond Joris?

  *   Randy's Question: Early Ontario Records

  *   Joyce asked about Writing a Letter to Strangers


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That's it for this week!

Lorine

Hi everyone

I've just returned from a farewell party for our nephew and
his wife. Nephew is graduating from his Army training and
being sent to a base far from home to live.

We're having bad snowstorms (again!) and the February Blahs
have hit most of us now. We are all sick of winter and the
cold! I hope that wherever you live is warm and sunny :-)

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Ask Olive Tree!

Don't forget to send me a note at askolivetree@... if
you have a genealogy or history question you'd like me to
tackle. I really enjoy doing these, some are very
challenging and take me quite awhile so if you don't see
your questions on the blog yet, don't give up!

Questions  being answered next week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

I'll try to get 2 more done so that we have a full 7 days
worth of questions asked and answered.

*   Getting the full 1871 Canadian Census Record from PG

*   Searching for Death Record in Wisconsin 1872-1879 from
DeAnn

*   Checking Canada Census as well as American from Lance

*    Trouble Reading Handwriting on Manifest  S S Potsdam
from Clayton

*    Ships Passenger Lists 1947 from Janet

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Questions  answered last week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

*   Terence wrote to ask for Help with Pier Family in New
Netherland!  [This one got bumped, it will be answered at a
future date]

* Willow asked about Looking for a Loyalist Connection

*   Brian's Question: Finding James Garrett before 1874

*   Jerry asked about Finding Proof of Parents in 18th
Century New Jersey

  *   Beryle asked about Military Records in United Kingdom

  *   Sandra asked:  Who was Hillegond Joris?

  *   Randy's Question: Early Ontario Records

  *   Joyce asked about Writing a Letter to Strangers

We had some good comments from readers on last week's
questions and answers, thanks for your input!

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That's it for this week, although I just want to let
everyone know that Ancestry.com has some new databases
online.  If you are an Ancestry subscriber you will have
some fun I think with these! See
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ancestry.shtml for the
list

Lorine



-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Hi everyone

Wow, March is here already. I can almost smell Spring just around the
corner.

I'm already in a Spring Cleaning mood (genealogy-wise that is!) and
have begun digging out old genealogy mysteries and puzzles that I want
to try to clear up this year. In fact I have one ready to post in my
ANCESTOR MOST WANTED section on my Olive Tree Genealogy blog at
  http://OliveTreeGenealogy.blogspot.com  Scroll down the right hand
side until you see the Label "Ancestor Most Wanted" and click on that
to read all 5 posted so far. They cover the geographic area of USA and
Canada.

There's always a reward offered for information leading to my Ancestor
Most Wanted so be sure to check it out

I've been talking about DNA and Genealogy recently on the Olive Tree
Genealogy blog so if it's something you are thinking about getting
into, you  might want to have a peek
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So far I have the following answers ready for next week
on http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

  *     Looking for an Ancestor who disappeared after 1911
Keywords: 1916 Canada Census, Canada, Inkerman, Knight's
Cemetery, USA

  *    Finding an Ancestor in Ships Passenger Lists to
Canada before 1865
Keywords: Canadian Ships Passenger Lists

  *    Sorting Out Family Information on Ancestors
Keywords:  Family lore, Family Trees

  *    Searching for an Ancestor with a common name
Keywords: Census Records, United Kingdom, FreeBMD

  *    Sometimes We Need to Slow Down and Gather more Facts
Keywords: Buechner, Ships Passenger Lists, WW1 Military
Records

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The following questions were answered last week on
http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

  * Separating Family Lore from Facts
Keywords: American Census, Babinec, Family Lore,
Naturalization

  * Finding Baptist Vital Registrations
Keywords: Baptist Records, Hartley, Priest, Sheffield,
Thompson, Vital Statistics

  * Getting the full 1871 Canadian Census Record
Keywords: Canadian Census

  * Searching for Death Record in Wisconsin 1872-1879
Keywords:  Frantz, Nebraska, Wisconsin

  * Checking Canada Census as well as American
Keywords: Canadian Census, Illinois, Nebraska, Ontario

  * Trouble Reading Handwriting on Manifest
Keywords: Canadian Ships Passenger Lists, Reading
Handwriting, S S Potsdam

  * Ships Passenger Lists 1947
Keywords: Canada, Immigration, Ships Passenger Lists

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The 1916 Canada census for Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba went
online last week on Ancestry.com You can read about at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/02/1916-canadian-census-online.html

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Did you know that 2009 has been declared the Year of the British Home
Child? Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 impoverished or
orphaned children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the
child emigration movement. These children were known as British Home
Children. Read more about that at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/02/2009-declared-year-of-british-hom\
e.html

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That's it for this week's issue. Don't forget you can also friend me
on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=641552814

I'm also on Twitter and you can follow my updates and tweets at
http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also become a Fan of Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page on
Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

Good hunting!
Lorine

Hi everyone

I hope your weather is as nice as ours. Most of the snow has melted, the sun is
shining and we don't need our warmest parkas to be outside :-)

The weather has encouraged me to start Spring Cleaning on my genealogy. This
morning I wrote on my Olive Tree Genealogy blog about pulling out an old brick
wall and looking at it with fresh eyes and ideas, not to say renewed enthusiasm!

It's called Follow that Genealogy Hunch! and is at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/03/follow-that-genealogy-hunch.html

If that long URL doesn't work here in email, just go to
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and start from there

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Queries being answered this week on
http::AskOliveTree.blogspot.com:

  *     Finding a Native American Ancestor (from Mildred)
Keywords: Native American, Tribal Rolls

  *     Finding an Ancestor on Ships Passenger Lists to New
York (from Margaret )
Keywords: New York Ships Passenger Lists, Ships Passenger
Lists, Using Search Engines

  *     Searching Upper Canada Sundries & Land Records (from
Neil)
Keywords: Land Records, Loyalists, Piercy, Upper Canada
Land Petitions, Upper Canada Sundries

  *     Hiring a Professional Genealogist (from Michael)
Keywords: Ireland, Professional Genealogist

There will be more genealogy and history questions answered this week, but the
ones above are the ones that are ready to go.

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Queries answered last week on
http::AskOliveTree.blogspot.com:

  *  How can an Ancestor be in England and Canada census in
1871 (from Bill)

  *  Hunting for great uncle from England living in British
Columbia  (from Gayna )

  *  Looking for an Ancestor who disappeared after 1911
(from Diane)

  *  Finding an Ancestor in Ships Passenger Lists to Canada
(from Sharon)

  *  Sorting Out Family Information on Ancestors (from
Carrie)

  *  Searching for an Ancestor with a common name (from
Brenda R )

  *  Sometimes We Need to Slow Down and Gather more Facts
(from Dona)

  *  Separating Family Lore from Facts  (from Carrie)

Even if you didn't ask the question, or yours has not yet been answered, you
might find the questions and responses useful so be sure to take a peek at what
others are asking.

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Blog Posts last week on
http://OliveTreeGenealogy.blogspot.com/

1. Follow that Genealogy Hunch!
2. Dnyastree launches Surname Map for Canada
3. Ancestor Name Changes
4. DNA Genealogy - Choosing DNA Groups to Join
5. Archives of Ontario UPDATE Archives of Ontario
6. DNA Genealogy - The Kit Arrives
7.  DNA Genealogy - Friend or Foe?

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New on AncestorsAtRest.com

Brian of AncestorsAtRest.com added about 140 more photos of
graves in St Ann's Cemetery in Penetanguishene Simcoe
County Ontario. The photos are of graves in the old section
of the cemetery.

http://www.ancestorsatrest.com/simcoe_county_ont/

  Many other Simcoe County cemetery photos are online at
AncestorsAtRest.com

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Don't forget you can also friend me on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=641552814

I'm also on Twitter and you can follow my updates and tweets
at http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also become a Fan of Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page on Facebook
at
http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

Hope to see you there! Enjoy and good hunting!

Lorine

Hi everyone

Spring is back! We are having beautiful 50' weather, it's
sunny and most of the snow has melted. Our chickens and
guineas are happily pecking around in the fields and yards
looking for bugs. They are inside all winter and getting
out is a treat for them. In the non-snow weather they range
freely and can roam wherever they want.

I hope your weather was as enjoyable today (or better!)

Here are a few genealogy items I talked about on my Olive
Tree Genealogy blog last week.
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

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CanadaGenWeb's Cemetery Project has been updated! Read
about the new cemeteries at
http://cemetery.canadagenweb.org/

The History Channel is showing the film Death or Canada on
Monday, March 16 at 8 PM. If your ancestors came to Canada
during the time of the Irish Famine, you will want to see
this production.  Read more about this at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

You won't want to miss Ancestry's newest immigration
records. Irish Canadian Emigration Records, 1823-1849 This
database contains various records and reports of Canadian
emigration agents James Allison and A.J. Buchanan. Among
the various records are some emigration and orphan lists.
These lists are searchable by name.  Follow the link at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/03/irish-
canadian-emigration-records-1823.html
or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/  and
scroll down the page to the article "Irish Canadian
Emigration Records, 1823-1849 online! "

Play Nice With Your Computer is  a three part series on
Cleaning your computer by guest author Barbara Brown. This
is something all genealogists need to do, including me!
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

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Last week Ask Olive Tree Blog
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/ answered these questions:

Finding a Native American Ancestor
Mildred asked this question

Finding an Ancestor on Ships Passenger Lists to New York
Margaret's question

Searching Upper Canada Sundries & Land Records
Neil asked this question

Hiring a Professional Genealogist
Michael asked this questioned

How can an Ancestor be in England and Canada census in
1871?
Bill asked this question

Hunting for great uncle from England living in British
Columbia
Gayna asked this question

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For next week I have answered the following queries  (and
will answer more during the week) on Ask Olive Tree Blog
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/

B.G. Asked: During the mass emigration to America (1880-
1930) ....
Look for the Olive Tree Answer: Finding an Outbound Ships
Passenger List from America or Canada

Gloria asked: How can I find a death record and/or obituary
for Ida Jane Pell in October 1946 in Edmondton.....
  Look for the Olive Tree Answer: How to find an Obituary or
Death Record

Gloria's Question: Where would I start my search for the
ship list leaving France 1830.....
  Look for the Olive Tree Answer: Where would I start my
search for the ship list leaving France 1830

  Diane asked: The family of John W. Heck appears in the
the 1901 Census for Middlesex....
   Look for the Olive Tree Answer: Finding a Family that
left Canada for America


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  Don't forget you can also friend me on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=641552814

I'm also on Twitter and you can follow my updates and
tweets
at http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also become a Fan of Olive Tree Genealogy
interactive page on Facebook at
http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

Hope to see you there!

Lorine
-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Well, my book on the King family of Arkell Ontario is going
to the printer next week. Yay! I love it when a book
is completed and ready to share with others.

"From England to Arkell: The story of two pioneer settlers,
Lewis & Thomas King who left Suffolk England for
the Wilds of Upper Canada in 1831 A Genealogy to 4
Generations following their descendants in Ontario,
Alberta, Australia & Michigan" is the title.

It is 87 pages of documents, photos and stories. It was a
very exciting time in Upper Canada (present day Ontario)
and Arkell was a brand new settlement just outside of
Guelph. Some of Lewis and Thomas' descendants settled in
Michigan as well as other countries, and many stayed in
Ontario. If you are a descendant you may be interested in
this detailed book.

You can read more at http://tiny.cc/37eqP

And for those who are patiently waiting for the PEER book
on the Peer Family in America and Canada, please be patient
just a wee bit longer. The final draft is being proofed, so
fingers crossed it comes back soon and can go to print.

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In the confusing and often cluttered world of Genealogy
enthusiasts, Genealogy bloggers, Facebook users and
Twitter lovers, it's often difficult to know whose blog you
should read, which Twitter user you should follow, or what
Facebook personality to be friends with. Most of us have
too few hours in the day to read every blog or follow
every Twitter update out there.  Now you can read a list of
Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter as
compiled by Thomas MacEntee.  I'm honoured to have made
this list! There are 9 other genealogists you should know
about though.  http://tiny.cc/ttZWe

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Michigan Death Records Online - This is an announcement I
posted on my OliveTreeGenealogy blog at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com  Seeking Michigan’s
first major project is the digitization of roughly 1
miillion death records covering the years 1897 through 1920
and the start is now online. Read the rest of the
announcement at  http://tiny.cc/5JfUc

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This week on AskOliveTree blog
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com the following questions
will be answered:

* Tom's question answered: Finding David Chesterman
* Faye's question answered: FInding immigration record from
Ireland to Australia
* Ken's question answered: Finding an ancestor's arrival in
American or Canadian ships passenger lists
* Karen's question answered: Figuring out the proper name
of a female ancestor
* Carrie's question answered: Gleaning information from an
old family letter

I'll try to get a few more answered before the end of the
week so be sure you check to see if your query is
there even if you don't see it listed above. Some of these
questions are from January so don't despair if yours
has not yet been answered, you never know when it will pop
up :-)

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Last week on AskOliveTree blog
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com the following questions
were answered:

   * Finding a Family that left Canada for America
   * Where would I start my search for a ship list leaving
France 1830
   * How to find an obituary or Death Record
   * Finding an Outbound Ships Passenger List from America
or Canada.

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That's it for this week, don't forget you can follow my
genealogy updates on Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also become a Fan of Olive Tree Genealogy
interactive page on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can
also find the page at http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Hello everyone,

I don't know if others experienced this, but we woke up this morning to 25'F
temperatures and SNOW on the ground! I refuse to dig out my winter boots and am
crossing my fingers that this melts by tomorrow.

There is some exciting genealogy news for those with Irish ancestors. Anyone
with an ancestor from Ireland will want to make use of this 150th Birthday offer
from the Irish Times online. The Irish Times Digital Archives is FREE from March
27/09 to April 5/09. It covers the years 1859 to 2009. Follow the link at my
OliveTreeGenealogy blog or see my Twitter update of March 28th

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/03/irish-times-archives-1859-2009-fr\
ee.html

If that link wraps to 2 lines, use this Tiny URL http://tiny.cc/pUrYq

I'm also very honoured to have been chosen for Randy Seaver's Choice of BEST new
genealogy blog for 2009! Randy wrote an incredibly kind review of my new blog
AskOliveTree.blogspot.com  See Randy's report at http://tinyurl.com/csvqq3

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Questions to be answered on  http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com  this week

- Finding an ancestor's arrival in American or Canadian ships passenger lists -
answer for Ken

- How to find a Roll Number for Native American Ancestry - answer for Mike

- Finding a Death at Sea - answer for Angela

- Finding an Ancestor in a Colorado orphanage - answer for Carolyne

- Finding an Ancestor on a Ship Arriving Canada 1854 - answer for Marilyn

- Finding the Identity of Denes Tunison and wife Sarah Hoogland - answer for
Lewis K

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Questions answered on  To be answered on http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com last 
week

* Finding Records for Grosse Ile in 1832 - answer for Jim

* Tom's question answered: Finding David Chesterman

* Faye's question answered: FInding immigration record fromIreland to Australia

* Ken's question answered: Finding an ancestor's arrival in American or Canadian
ships passenger lists

* Karen's question answered: Figuring out the propername of a female ancestor

* Carrie's question answered: Gleaning information from an old family letter

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That's it for this week, don't forget you can follow my genealogy updates on
Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also become a Fan of Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page on Facebook
at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can also find the page at
http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Lorine

Hi Everyone

What a beautiful day we are having - sunny (although cold!) and a welcome change
from the SNOW we had all day yesterday! I thought this was Spring but apparently
not....

Good news - my son who was deployed to Afghanistan is now home with his wife and
children, safe and sound. He did suffer a sudden illness on his way back to
Canada and was hospitalized in England briefly, which delayed his homecoming but
he's on the mend now.

Re Genealogy News in the last week --

1. Petworth Project on Facebook
The Petworth Project has produced books, an archive, and a website dealing with
English emigrants who came to Canada with the help of the Petworth Emigration
Committee 1832-1837 and up to 1850 (www.petworthemigrations.com). Continue
reading at

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/petworth-project-on-facebook.html

  or http://tiny.cc/PcB4x

2. Hand Marks - Elaborate Symbols that Replace an Ancestor's Signature
Many of you know that I conduct extensive research into the Dutch who settled in
New Netherland (present day New York) in the early 1600s. One of the very
interesting items found about these Dutch ancestors is that they used handmarks,
or signatory marks. Continue reading at

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/hand-marks-elaborate-symbols-that\
.html  or at http://tiny.cc/GMkfy

3. Finding English ancestors in the National Archives UK
I've been enjoying searching the National Archives website The National Archives
is the official archive of the UK Government and they hold over 10 million
records. I found bastardy examinations and Certificates of removal  for some of
my English ancestors! Continue reading at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/finding-english-ancestors-in-nati\
onal.html or http://tiny.cc/ocFoK

4. Randy's Choice of BEST new genealogy blog for 2009
Randy Seaver, blogger extraordinaire of GeneaMusings.com starts his blog post
today with

"I'm going to start highlighting genealogy blogs that add significant value to
the genea-blogosphere. This may be a regular weekly feature at Genea-Musings!"
Continue reading at
http://www.geneamusings.com/2009/03/must-read-genealogy-blogs-ask-olive.html or
http://tiny.cc/Gm8hF

5. I set up a Group called "Pioneers of Arkell Wellington County" on Facebook.
In May 1831 a group of Englishmen set out from New York for what would become
Arkell Ontario. A list of men in the party includes Thomas and John Arkell, for
whom the settlement was named, Lewis King, Thomas King, James Hewer, Frederick
Stone, Thomas Stone, John Outin, James Carter, Joseph Dory, Charles Willoughby
and Peter Bell. If your ancestor was an early pioneeer involved in Arkell
Ontario, please join us at

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71634086075

Joining is free but you do have to set up a Facebook Account (also free). It's
easy so please drop by and join in!

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The following questions have been answered and will be posted next week on
AskOliveTree.blogspot.com http://askolivetree.blogspot.com
I am going to be taking a short break over the Easter Weekend so may not post
any answers on April 12 and 13.

Kathi's question was - I am searching for my biological grandmother.....


Russ asked - I have an Ancestor who came to Annapolis, Maryland ABOUT 1665.....

Norma asked - I am searching for the entry date of both Charles, Port of entry, 
and the
names of parents of Charles W. Ernenputsch Sr......

MR writes to ask  - I am trying to find an ancestor that emigrated from Russia
to England, then England to the US. .....

Donna asked  - I am looking for the history of my mother Anne Or anna
Steele.....

Duke asked - Old Dutch records are found with family names, patronyms, surnames
and sometimes a combination of names......

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Last week I answered these questions on  AskOliveTree.blogspot.com
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Finding the Identity of Denes Tunisen and  wife Sara Hoogland

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Finding an Ancestor on a Ship Arriving Canada 1854

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Finding an Ancestor in a Colorado orphanage

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Finding a Death at Sea

Monday, March 30, 2009
How to find a Roll Number for Native American Ancestry

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Finding an ancestor's arrival in American or Canadian ships passenger lists

** Don't forget to send in your genealogy or history questions to me at
askolivetree@... !  I look forward to helping you solve your genealogy
puzzle

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That's it for this week, don't forget you can follow my genealogy updates on
Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can
also find the page at http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Til next week - good hunting!

Lorine

Hello everyone

Well, I took a little break over Easter and feel much more rested now! I hope
everyone had a good holiday.

After almost 3 months, my mother and father's ashes will finally be interred in
Woodlawn Cemetery in Guelph. We're going to have a Memorial Service in May which
I'm looking forward to. WE have a very nice spot for them together so they will
be going home to rest with other family members.

Now - here's what is new on Olive Tree Genealogy and her sister sites.

First - Great news:

Read about the COMPLETE Canadian Census 1851-1916 Coming Online in June!

  http://tinyurl.com/clrwpx

This is really exciting. There are bits and pieces of this collection online now
but nothing yet for 1861 (except a few transcriptions online). 1871 is only a
head of house index online and 1881 is the very badly done transcribed version.
This new collection will be indexed with actual images. I can hardly wait!

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On my blog last week I posted a Step by Step Tutorial with pictures on how to
Use the National Archives UK Website to Obtain Ancestor Documents

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-use-national-archives-uk-w\
ebsite.html

If that link wraps and isn't clickable for you, just go the main blog page at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and look for the title of the Tutorial

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Also on the OliveTreeGenealogy Blog last week:

Easter Bunny's Family Tree Found!

Breaking news - yesterday a little girl named Alice was playing in the garden of
an old house in England when she fell down a large rabbit hole. Before climbing
out she made a unique discovery. In a small wooden box under a pile of rabbit
fur hats Alice spotted a yellowed letter. The letter was addressed to "Dear
Easter" and signed "Uncle Wiggily", and it provided details of an interesting
family tree! Continue reading the letter at

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-bunnys-family-tree-found.h\
tml or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and look for the title
EASTER BUNNY'S FAMILY TREE FOUND
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Next week I've got these questions answered so far on on
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/

* reese asked about an ancestor's arrival in virginia in 1652
* Ray asked about his father's Merchant Marine Records
* Anna asked nformation  on  the ship Empire State in 1852
* Brenda sent some information that may help M.R. with the question answered
last week on Finding an Immigrant Russia to America

I'll work on more as the week progresses. If you have a challenging puzzle, send
it to me at askolivetree@... and I'll do my best to answer it

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These are some of the questions asked and answered over the past 2 weeks on
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/

Search the Canadian Census Records for an Ancestor
Olive Tree Answer for Donna

Answer to Question: When did Surnames Begin in New York?
Olive Tree Answer for Duke

How to Obtain a Canadian Ships Passenger List after 1936
Olive Tree Answer for Judy

FInding an Ancestor Who Disappears from the Records
Olive Tree Answer for Virginia

Where to Find Handmarks
Olive Tree Answer for Jan

How to Find an Ancestor's Birth Location
Olive Tree Answer for Wendy

  Help Finding an Immigrant Russia to America
  Olive Tree Answer for M.R.

HINT: Use the Ethnic Name of Your Ancestor and NOT his Americanized Name when
Researching!
Olive Tree Answer for Norma

Finding an English Indentured Servant in 17th Century America
Olive Tree Answer for Russ

Help to Find a Biological Grandfather
Olive Tree Answer for Kathi

Finding Ira Totten in New Jersey
Olive Tree Answer for Gary

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That's it for this week, don't forget you can follow my
genealogy updates on Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page
on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can
also find the page at http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Til next week - good hunting!

Lorine

Hello everyone

Last week I took my parents' ashes to Guelph to be interred. It was a miserable
cold rainy day and we stumbled around the Cemetery trying to find graves of
several of my ancestors.

Even with a map of the cemetery (it doesn't mark specific locations, only vague
general areas) we could only find a few of the ones I wanted to take pictures
of. We will try again when we go to the Memorial for my mom and dad next week.

On the way home it actually SNOWED! Can you believe it?? This weekend has been a
mixture - yesterday hot and humid with bad thunderstorms all day. Today it is
quite cold and has rained most of the day. I'm not sure where Spring is....

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Last week I answered these questions on Ask Olive Tree
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com

* reese asked about an ancestor's arrival in virginia in 1652
* Ray asked about his father's Merchant Marine Records
* Anna asked nformation on the ship Empire State in 1852
* Brenda sent some information that may help M.R. with the question answered
last week on Finding an Immigrant Russia to America
* Gary asked about finding Ira Totten in New Jersey

If you have a challenging puzzle, send it to me at askolivetree@... and
I'll do my best to answer it!

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The following questions are completed and will be published this coming week on
Ask Olive Tree http://askolivetree.blogspot.com  I will try to work on others to
add to this week's answers.

Question from Dawn & Answer from Olive Tree: Finding Ships Passenger List to
Canada Before 1865

Question from Teresa & Answer from Olive Tree: Finding German Ancestor's Arrival
in USA

Question from Cynthia & Answer from Olive Tree: Relationship Calculator

Question from Tracy & Answer from Olive Tree: Finding Ships Passenger List to
Canada After 1865 & Finding England Records

Question from Marilyn & Answer from Olive Tree: Finding an Ancestor's Death

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Last week I talked about  what a shock I had when my Grandma's ashes went
missing. My Grandmother died in January 1985. She was cremated and then interred
in Guelph Ontario (or so I thought until yesterday). I had actually thought she
was buried in Owen Sound which is where she died. I know - as a genealogist
you'd think I would have known for sure but I made an assumption.  Read more at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-missing-grandmother.html

After a trip to Guelph to inter my mother and father's ashes, I reported success
regarding my Grandmother's missing ashes in this story My Missing Grandmother
Found! It is at http://tiny.cc/y5zKg

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Other Items in the Genealogy Newsworld are Border Crossings From U.S. to Canada,
1908-1935 online (see
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/border-crossings-from-us-to-canad\
a-1908.html ) This database contains records of immigrants crossing into Canada
from the United States between 1908 and 1935. These records consist of border
entry lists and Form 30 (individual entry forms). Information recorded in these
records may include: name of immigratn, port of arrival, date of arrival, age,
gender, country of citizenship, birthplace, marital status, and last permanent
address.

Also Ancestry's new search and hot keys option is pretty cool. Yesterday while
using Ancestry.com website, I saw a notice at the top of the main Search Page
"Try out the New Ancestry Search". There was a small arrow labelled "Try it" and
another labelled "Tour".  I played around with this and reported on it (pros and
cons) at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/04/ancestrys-new-search-and-hot-keys\
.html

Enjoy and happy hunting!
Lorine

Hello everyone,

Mother's Day for those who celebrate it, is this Sunday. An early Happy Mother's
Day to all mothers out there. Don't forget to phone or visit your mother and
grandmother on that Special Day.

Last weekend was the Memorial Service for my mother and father.  It went very
well and everyone seemed to like the Ceremony I planned. My husband and I went
to the city the day before so that we could place small Canadian flags on the
graves of other ancestors in that cemetery, and a  large flag where my mom and
dad were interred with my mother's parents.  It was cold, rainy and miserable
but we found 6 graves for our flags and I left a polished stone at each one we
visited.

Unfortunately I came down with a bad cold that weekend, and have been sick with
bronchitis. So I missed last Sunday's newsletter, and also several days of Ask
Olive questions and answers. I was pretty much on the couch feeling sorry for
myself! There are some challenging questions for Ask Olive that I'm itching to
get at :-)

While wandering around the cemetery, I was struck by the beauty and architecture
of many of the tombstones. That led me to thinking about tombstone rubbings and
I've written about them and how you might incorporate them into a children's
genealogy activity at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/tombstone-rubbings.html

After the ceremony was over we hunted through two other cemeteries which hold
the graves of many of my English ancestors who were among the first group of
settlers in a small village in 1831. I was saddened and horrified at the neglect
of one of them. You can read about that and see some pictures of the neglected
and broken tombstones at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/neglect-of-farnham-cemetery.html

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Don't Miss This Site!

Also, I discovered a new newspaper archive website last week. Maybe everyone but
me knew about it but I was very impressed and thrilled by all the information I
found on my ancestors in just a couple of days. I am still exploring this site
whenever I can find a few minutes in the day, and am still as enthused as when I
wrote about it on May 1st at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/newspaper-archive-not-to-be-misse\
d.html

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A Fun Project to do with Children

One of the items I wrote about last week and which I'm still thinking about, is
Making a Genealogy Time Capsule. I have a 3-part series on that idea on my Olive
Tree Genealogy blog starting at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/making-genealogy-time-capsule.htm\
l  To read all 3 parts, just click on the Topic "Genealogy Time Capsule" on the
right hand side bar. It takes you to
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Genealogy%20Time%20Capsule
and you can read all 3 posts there. The more I think about this, the more I like
the idea of making one with my two oldest grandchildren this summer!

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Share Memories of Your Loved Ones

I REMEMBER Uses The Fourth-Most Trafficked Website in the United States To Bring
Memories Together Like Never Before. Footnote has started I Remember, a Facebook
application aimed at helping connect Facebook users in order to share memories
of loved ones. With I Remember, Facebook users can create a meaningful
experience to honor those individuals that had an impact on their lives.
Read more about this at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-remember-uses-fourth-most-traff\
icked.html or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and look for the
announcement posted May 5th.

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On http://AskOliveTree.blogspot.com I answered the following questions which
were submitted by visitors:

* Finding out what F stands for in 1851 Canadian Census (asked by Brenda)

* Using Certificate of Arrivals to Find an Ancestor's Immigration (asked by
Bruce)

* Understanding Dit Names (asked by Patrick)

* What's the Difference Between a Loyalist and a Tory? (asked by Sheri)

* Finding an Ancestor's Death (asked by Marilyn)

I have no answers completed yet for next week's questions but I'll be working on
that today and tomorrow. There are some very challenging and interesting ones
waiting in my Ask Olive inbox! If you have a question you'd like to submit, send
it to askolivetree@... and I'll do my best to answer it

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Earlier in May I volunteered to host the Wellington County Ontario GenWeb site.
The previous host did an outstanding job as host and I hope I can measure up to
him. The site is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onwellin/ and I am slowly
making some  minor alterations and adding some data for Wellington County.

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That's it for this week, don't forget you can follow my genealogy updates on
Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can also find the page at
http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Til next week - good hunting!
Lorine

Sorry everyone,

Apparently my bronchitis-cold has numbed my brain. In the
newsletter sent out earlier today, many of the links are
way too long for you to click on them.

So, here are shortened links to replace the long ones :-)

Tombstone Rubbings was
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/tombstone-
rubbings.html

Shorter URL is http://tiny.cc/HdMYV

Neglect of Farnham Cemetery was at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/neglect-of-
farnham-cemetery.html

Shorter URL is http://tiny.cc/Hn7nt

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Don't Miss This Site!

My post about a new newspaper archive website I'm pretty
excited about, at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/newspaper-
archive-not-to-be-missed.html

Shorter URL is http://tiny.cc/350qy

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A Fun Project to do with Children

Making a Genealogy Time Capsule was at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/making-
genealogy-time-capsule.html

Shorter URL is http://tiny.cc/HLsp8

To read all 3 parts go to
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Genealog
y%20Time%20Capsule

Shorter URL is http://tiny.cc/ZBjHS

I hope these work a bit better for you!

Lorine
-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/LorineMS
* Olive Tree Genealogy
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/


otg@... or olivetreegenealogy@...

Hello Everyone

Well, we've had excitement galore in the past week. I was working at my computer
early one morning at my desk which is in front of a large picture window
overlooking our back deck and rear of our property. Suddenly a large MOOSE
appeared in my line of vision!

It had come out of the woods and was against the deck railing (about 8 feet from
my desk). It wandered around our yard heading towards the donkey field when
something spooked it and off it trotted back into the woods. Believe me this is
not an everyday occurence. In fact I've never seen a real moose in my life
before! They don't usually come this far south apparently.

Wishing those who celebrate it, a good Memorial Day weekend. Footnote.com is
offering a special draw for a life-time membership this weekend. You can read
about it at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com

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In the genealogy world, here's what's been going on:

At http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ there is a 3-part series (complete
with graphics) on Using Ireland Civil Registration Indexes to obtain Vital Stats
Certificates.  It's a rather intimidating process so I thought this might be
helpful to those seeking their Irish roots.  The series takes you step by step
through the full process and should be easy to follow for your own Irish
ancestors.

There is also an announcement about Nova Scotia Black Loyalists Searchable
Database online. This is an exciting project for those with black roots in Nova
Scotia.

On May 20th I posted an informational how-to article  (complete with graphics)
on Ordering English Certificates of Birth, Marriage or Death online. This should
help anyone with English ancestors, as the Certificates hold a great deal of
valuable genealogical information and are quite reasonable in cost.

Not to be missed is the 4-part series on Abandoned in Australia, the true story
of my 2nd great grandfather facing difficult choices in 1867 after the death of
his wife and 6 month old son in Australia. Great great grandfather returned to
England with 2 of his 4 children, so the story in our family went, but was it
true? And if so, which children did he leave behind, and what happened to them?

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On http://askolivetree.blogspot.com I was honoured to present our first Guest
Genealogist - Brenda Dougall Merriman.  Since 1979 Brenda has been certified by
the Board for Certification of Genealogists (Washington DC) and later served six
years as a BCG trustee. In 1996 she founded the group that became the Ontario
Chapter, Association of Professional Genealogists (OCAPG). After years of client
research, speaking engagements and working with the National Institute for
Genealogical Studies, Brenda now concentrates on writing, some continued work
with the Jackman Foundation-sponsored Petworth Emigration project/website and
volunteering with OCAPG. Brenda is also the author of several award winning
books and Ask Olive Tree is honoured to have had her expertise in answering one
of my reader's questions.

Questions answered last week were

* Guest Genealogist Brenda Dougall Merriman Answers the Question Is a Crown
Patent worth Obtaining?  (Answer for Jill)
* Searching an Elusive Ancestor in Ontario after 1929 (Answer for  Adrian)
* What is the National Registration File of 1940 (Answer for Jason)
* Finding an English Birth Record in Bishop's Transcripts or other Records 
(Answer for Vesta)
* Finding a Death at Sea  (Answer for Terry)
* Answering Question about Photos of People on Postcards from England  (Answer
for Diane)
* How to Create a Family History Book (Answer for Joan)
* How to Find Descendants of Ancestor's Siblings (Answer for Martin)
* Finding records in Kentucky pre 1800 (Answer for Linda)

Don't forget to send your challenging puzzlers to me at askolivetree@...
and I will do my best to answer them on AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

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I added graphics (examples of the forms) and the full list of questions asked on
the 1940 National Registration File for Men and Women in Canada. Two of the many
questions which may interest genealogists are about naturalization (if
naturalized, what year and where?) and immigration (if not born in Canada, when
did the person come to Canada?)

  Copies of the orginal forms can be ordered for an ancestor and a link is
provided at http://naturalizationrecords.com/canada/

Also added an example of the form for women and a list of questions asked on the
1918 National Registration. Sadly the original forms have not been kept but
there may be certificates in existence in family papers.

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That's it for this week, don't forget you can follow my genealogy updates on
Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can also find the page at
http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Happy June 1st everyone!

It's been a pretty miserable cold weekend where I live and it is continuing
today. Temps are between 40 and 50, more suitable for late fall! It's been
raining almost non-stop but hopefully the sun will come out soon!

Here's what's new in the Genealogy World

Using NewspaperArchive.com, a 2-part series complete with images to demonstrate.
I'm a huge fan of NewspaperARCHIVE.com and have been playing around with it for
a few weeks now. I thought I'd show others some tips I've learned while using
the site.

Start finding ancestors with help from

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/using-newspaperarchivecom-part-1.\
html

or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/  and look for the post title
USING NEWSPAPERARCHIVE.COM

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Ancestors At Rest: The Forgotten Coffin Of Gladys Winifred Fowler
Source: http://ancestorsatrest.blogspot.com

An amateur sleuth has solved the mystery surrounding the tragic death of a young
New Brunswick woman whose coffin has been lying in a dusty, unclaimed crate at a
London cemetery for more than 90 years. Continue reading at 
http://ancestorsatrest.blogspot.com

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Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson, presented in collaboration
with the New Netherland Project, Albany, and the National Maritime Museum
Amsterdam/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, will employ rare 16th– and
17th–century objects, images, and documents from major American and Dutch
collections to bring the transatlantic world to life and reveal how Henry
Hudson's epic third voyage of exploration planted the seeds of a modern society
that took root and flourished in the New World. Read more at

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/amsterdamnew-amsterdam-worlds-of-\
henry.html

or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/  and look for the post title

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A treasure trove of First World War photographs was discovered recently in
France. Published here for the first time, they show British soldiers on their
way to the Somme. But who took them? And who were these Tommies marching off to
die? At least 400 glass photographic plates preserving the images were found in
the loft of a barn at Warloy-Baillon and cast out as rubbish. In recent months,
the plates, some in perfect condition, some badly damaged, have been lovingly
assembled and their images printed, scanned and digitally restored by two
Frenchmen.

Continue reading and help identify these photos, at

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/lost-ww1-photographs.html

or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/  and look for the post title

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Finding Your New Netherland Roots: A Two-Day Workshop on New Netherland Family
History. Details at

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/finding-your-new-netherland-roots\
-two.html

or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/  and look for the post title

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1881 Canadian Census Images online. Details at

  http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/05/1881-census-images-online.html

  or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/  and look for the post title

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On http://askolivetree.blogspot.com  questions answered last week were

*  How to find an ancestor on a ship's passenger list to Australia   (Answer for
Carol)

*  Finding out if an ancestor is African American or Native American (Answer for
Genevieve) <== This response plus my linked article on sources was given a
shout-out by Randy Seaver of genea-musings (www.geneamusings.com) in his Best of
the Genea-Blogs - May 24-30, 2009. Thanks Randy!

*  Determing Average Number of Descendants (Answer for Dianne)

*  Placing Stones on Graves - Where did the Custom Start  (Answer for Vince)

*  FInding out if your ancestor was a Home Child (Answer for Jean)

Don't forget to send your challenging puzzlers to me at askolivetree@...
and I will do my best to answer them on AskOliveTree.blogspot.com

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That's it for this week, don't forget you can follow my genealogy updates on
Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can also find the page at
http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Last but not least, you can read or subscribe to my Blog at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com

Best of luck in your genealogy hunt!

Lorine

Hi everyone

It's been awhile since I wrote this newsletter but I've had some glitches in my
computer setup. Right now I am working on a laptop with a very tiny screen! That
makes it difficult for me to see what I'm writing because of my Cogan's
Dystrophy (a condition of the cornea of the eye).

I won't have my usual 24" monitor for a few more days so I thought I better
struggle along as best I could to get this newsletter out today. The exciting
news about the complete Canadian census being online just won't wait any longer!
So please bear with me and forgive any typos I might make.

Here is what is happening in the genealogy community

From Olive Tree Genealogy Blog, lots of excitement this month! Remember you can
always start at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and use the Blogger
Search Engine to search for any article of interest on the Olive Tree Genealogy
Blog.

You can also use the list of Topics (Keywords) in the right hand side bar. Just
wait for the page to load completely, then scroll down the side bar until you
see a topic of interest.

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Great News! Complete census of Canada ONLINE

Great news! You can now search for ancestors in the 1861, 1871 and 1881 Canada
census, plus view the actual census images.  Continue reading and get the links
at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/06/great-news-complete-census-of-can\
ada.html

Topic (Keyword) "Canada Census" in right hand side bar at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

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Caveat re 1861 Canada Census Online

A source in the UK who has been doing her own transcription of the 1861 Toronto
census, wrote to me to share a very interesting (but disturbing) problem with
the new 1861 Canada census on Ancestry.com Continue reading at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/06/caveat-re-1861-canada-census-onli\
ne.html

There is an ongoing discussion (12 comments from readers so far) including a
response from a FamilySearch representative, so you won't want to miss this
post!

Topic (Keyword) "Canada Census" in right hand side bar
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

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Front Pages Free from NewspaperArchive

This is very interesting - another freebie from NewspaperARCHIVE.com at
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/welcome/newspaper-archive.aspx

They've unlocked every front page of their newspapers, which means you can look
through millions of unique newspaper front pages. Continue reading, I have
posted some tips for using this new search at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/06/front-pages-free-from-newspaperar\
chive.html

Topic (Keyword) "NewspaperArchive.com" in right hand side bar 
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

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Questions Asked and Answered on AskOliveTree! http://askolivetree.blogspot.com

* How to Find a Loyalist Ancestor - Colleen's question

* Finding a Ships Passenger List to USA in 1880  - Gold's question

* Re Swedish Ships to Newfoundland - Arlene's Question

* How to Find an Early Ontario Ancestor - Janice's question

* Guest Genealogist Brian Massey Answers Question about WW1 records - Jim's
qustion

* Introducing Guest Genealogist & Historian Brian Massey

* Jacques Van Slyke's Death - Murder or Natural Causes? - Don's question

* Tips on Reading Handwriting on Old Documents - M.R.'s question

* Help Finding an Ancestor's Death in United Kingdom - Linda's question

That's it until I have my proper monitor and computer and can actually SEE what
I am writing! :-) Remember to submit your puzzling or challenging genealogy
questions to me at askolivetree@... and I will do my best to answer them.

Good Genealogy Hunting
Lorine

Hi everyone,

Some big celebrations are coming up - We Canadians celebrate our Canada Day on
Wednesday July 1st and our American cousins are celebrating July4th this coming
weekend. Some of our local residents have already started their Canada
Celebrations with fireworks. A huge explosion of fireworks was set off quite
near us and the whole house shook, windows rattled, a most unsettling
experience.

On the homefront, I am now on High speed wireless thanks to Rogers Portable
Modem. Yay! After years of struggling on dialup which only reached max
connection of 32 kbps (on a good day) I now am whizzing along at 54Mbps! Thanks
to Rogers for developing something that works in rural areas like ours.

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Here's what's new in the Genealogy World:

On AskOliveTree Blog at  http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/  the following
questions have been asked and answered

* Finding Answers in Naturalization Records (Olive Tree Answer to Olav's
question)

* How to Find War of 1812 Records for an Ancestor  (Olive Tree Answer to Carol's
question)

  * How to Obtain Complete Details from an index-only database (Olive Tree Answer
to M.R.'s question)

  * Finding an Australian Ships Passenger List     (Olive Tree Answer to Naomi's
question)

* A reader responds to question about Australian Ships Passenger Lists (Followup
to Naomi's question)

* A Reader Asks where the Canadian census images on Ancestry come from    (Olive
Tree Answer to David's question)

* Where to search and locate names/dates of ships arriving in Maryland prior to
1800      (Olive Tree Answer to Larry's question)

Send your genealogy queries and puzzlers to AskOliveTree@... and I will do
my best to answer them! Reader's input is always welcome, you might have an
answer that is just what the questioner needed.

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You have got to read my experiences ordering records from the National Archives
in Kew England. I wrote about it  in two blog posts called Ordering Documents
from National Archives in Kew - a Comedy of Errors Part 1, and  Part 2 at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

I also provided readers with  step by step instructions on how NOT to  make the
same mistake(s) I did, complete with graphic shots showing how to search for,
find, then fill out and order documents for an ancestor. Believe me after
mistakenly ordering and receiving 864 documents I have learned from my mistake!

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I also talked about Dealing with Transcription Errors in Census Records in
another blog post at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/06/dealing-with-transcription-errors\
-in.html  (or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and look for that
speicific post) . After finding my PEER family misindexed as ROSS in a census
record online I thought I'd write about how hard it was to find them and how I
eventually accomplished this. Hopefully it will help someone find their missing
ancestor!

Don't miss my post featuring a little known database and resource called the
Pennsylvania Baggage Lists (for passengers to Pennsylvania) before 1820.  It's
at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/06/featuring-pennsylvania-ships-pass\
enger.html   (or go to http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and look for that
speicific post)

A few years ago I discovered a very interesting set of immigration records.
While searching New York records on microfilm, I stumbled on a set of Almshouse
Records which had the names of ships the Almshouse inmaates sailed on to America
(which included USA and Canada). Often the year of arrival was also given. 
Continue reading Getting Immigration Information from Almshouse Records at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/06/getting-immigration-information-f\
rom.html   I now have many of these records online to be freely searched.

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That's it for this issue of Olive Tree Genealogy newsletter! Happy hunting and
enjoy your upcoming celebrations if you live in Canada or USA.

Lorine

Hello friends and followers of Olive Tree Genealogy.

We had a lovely family wedding last weekend when one of my beautiful nieces
married her boyfriend of 9 years. It was a fun time and I had a chance to talk
with many extended family members and catch up on old times.

Things got quite exciting in the genealogy community when a new social website
called GenealogyWise opened its doors. Bloggers and genealogists flocked to it
and in the first few days membership (free) soared. Thousands of genealogy
groups were established and passionate discussions began. At the time of this
writing there are

I set up several groups that you may be interested in having a look at. Some of
them are quite active and members are very busy helping one another!

Lost Faces: Ancestor Photos & Albums at
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/lostfacesancestorphotosalbums (I was pleased
to see this group listed in the top 10 most active and the top 10 most popular
(# of members)
Ships Passenger Lists to USA at
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/shipspassengerliststousa (listed in the top
10 most active)
Ships Passenger Lists to Canada at
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/shipspassengerliststocanada
Naturalization Records at
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/naturalizationrecords
Ontario Canada Genealogy at
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/ontariocanadagenealogy

Surname Groups I established on http://www.genealogywise.com/ are McGinnis
Genealogy, Peer Genealogy, Vollick Genealogy and Van Slyke Genealogy. I will be
setting up more as time permits!

I also have 2 other Groups, one for Olive Tree Genealogy website and the other
for AskOliveTreeGenealogy a Question. You can find any of these by joining
GenealogyWise and then searching in the Groups area by name. There are many
other excellent groups that might interest you so be sure to look around!

Be sure to link to me as a Friend by going to
http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/LorineMcGinnisSchulze

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Here are the questions asked and answered on http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/
in the past few weeks. Send your genealogy queries to AskOliveTree@...

   * Ruth's Question: How to find an immigration record by looking in other
databases
   * Question from Richard: Russian Immigrants to Kentucky?
   * Question from Kansas: Help Finding an Ancestor's Ships Passenger List
   * Question from Ron: Finding an Ancestor who migrated Canada>USA>Canada
   * Question from Sarah: Finding an Alberta Land Grant
   * Kathryn's Question: Finding Records of War of Independence in Ireland
   * Ann's Question: How to find records for Waterford Ireland
   * Question:  How to Find an Ancestor in New York 1840s
   * Question: Finding a Long Lost Love
   * Question: Finding an elusive ancestor in Canada
   * Marie's Question: FInding out if a ship sailed in a certain year
   * Gini's Question: Finding out what newspapers exist in different locations
   * Olav's Question: Finding Answers in Naturalization Records

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Here's a few of the genealogy items I've been talking about on Olive Tree
Genealogy Blog at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

**  Online release of the Stars and Stripes historic newspaper archive
NewspaperARCHIVE,(at NewspaperARCHIVE.com) in partnership with Stars and Stripes
U.S. military publication, announces the online release of the Stars and Stripes
historic newspaper archive. Continue reading at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/online-release-of-stars-and-strip\
es.html

** Caribbean Slave Records coming online
Ancestry.com Launches One of the Most Comprehensive Collections of Caribbean
Slave Records. Continue reading at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/caribbean-slave-records-coming-on\
line.html

** Dating Old Family Photos
You've found a box of old photos in your great-aunt's attic. She doesn't want
them and tells you to go ahead and take the box. Some of the pictures are
identified by name but you've no idea when the photos were taken! What do you do
now? Continue reading at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/dating-old-family-photos.html

** Anomaly of Ellis Island Ships Passenger Lists
Some time ago on a ships passenger lists mailing list, my friend Sue Swiggum of
TheShipsList.com discovered that the total number of passengers on a filmed
Ellis Island list matched the number of third class passengers only. All other
passengers were missing. Continue reading at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/anomaly-of-ellis-island-ships-pas\
senger.html

** I Got Wise... GenealogyWise that is....
I got wise. GenealogyWise that is... yesterday I joined GenealogyWise.com.
GenealogyWise is a new social network site and when I first heard about it I
thought "Oh no, just a Facebook wannabee..." I didn't expect to like it. I
decided to give it a try though before giving it the thumbs down. Continue
reading at
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-got-wise-genealogywise-that-is.\
html

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Hoping to see you on one of the  social networks! You can follow my genealogy
updates on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy Fan page on Facebook at
http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

Or you can join the Olive Tree Genealogy Fan page on GenealogyWise at
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/olivetreegenealogy

Friend me at http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/LorineMcGinnisSchulze

Hello Everyone

It's been a busy month or more for me, and I'm sure most of you find summer just
as hectic. I've been very busy planning for a rather large family reunion and
gathering at my home this Saturday. I've been organizing and preparing for 6
weeks and now it's crunch time!

I managed to finish a McGinnis Family Book which I will have on display for
family members to look through and buy a copy if they want for themselves. This
particular book is a personal one for family only but I think they will love the
old photos in it!

It goes from my parents back along my dad's lines to my great-great-great
grandfather who came from Ireland to Ontario in 1832.

The reunion will have a Scavenger Hunt (it's ready to go but I'm trying to think
of some extra genealogy items or questions that can be included!), and lots of
fun games for kids and adults alike. So it's keeping me pretty busy getting all
this done in time for Saturday.

I hope everyone's had a chance to take advantage of Footnote's offer of free
access to the USA 1930 census for August. If you haven't had a chance, or have
not heard about this, use this link to get to the page you need to access this
free offering

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/08/1930-usa-census-free-during-augus\
t.html

You can also use this shortened link http://tiny.cc/lIuKJ if the one above will
not work for you


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Just to bring you up to date on Ask Olive Tree Blog at
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com here is a list of the questions asked and
answered in the last few weeks:

Finding Relationship between 2 Families

Guest Genealogist Kathryn Lake Answers a Query

Guest Genealogist Kathryn Lake

Preserving a Paper Genealogy Document

Understanding a Ships Passenger List

Using Circumstantial Evidence to Support a Genealogy Theory

Finding an ancestor's employment history

Response to Question: What Does CWF Mean in 1851 Canada Census

How to Prove an Inherited Family Tree That Has No Sources

FInding a picture of a Dutch ship from 1637

Finding an Ancestor in Black Hawk War in Illinois

Finding Proof of Unsubstantiated Family Trees

Figuring out an old Occupation on Census Records

Finding Military Records in Canada

Naturalization Papers Can be Wrong re Dates of Arrival, etc

Finding Records for a Death at Sea

How to find an immigration record by looking in other databases

Russian Immigrants to Kentucky?

Help Finding an Ancestor's Ships Passenger List

Finding an Ancestor who migrated Canada>USA>Canada

I hope you will drop by and read a few of the questions and answers, then send
me your own challenging genealogy puzzle! Address your questions to
askolivetree@...

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Well it's time for me to get back to my Family Reunion work, so I will send
another newsletter some time next week. Don't forget you can follow my genealogy
updates on Twitter
  http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page
on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can
also find the page at http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Lorine

Hello everyone,

I've been rather quiet lately due to some health issues. I spent quite a bit of
time in September going for medical tests - ultra sounds, CAT scans, blood work,
and more blood work. Results of all tests came in last week.

The doctors have booked me for surgery in early November so I am going to try to
catch up with my genealogy websites and blogs this month. But I also have to do
quite a bit of cooking to prepare meals for my hospital stay and for the 2 month
recovery period afterwards. Hubby is well-intentioned but not a cook. :-)

I am sure I will feel much better than I have in the last year, once the surgery
is over. I just want my readers to know why I might be quiet for awhile, or
falling behind in bringing genealogy data online.

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Meantime, I did manage to bring the following New Jersey Church Records online
for genealogists to use freely

Added to Olive Tree Genealogy New Jersey Church Records section are the
following Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and
Schraalenburgh, New Jersey

Membership Lists Hackensack 1695-1769
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/usa/nj/Hackensack-Members.shtml

Membership Lists Schraalenburgh 1797-1801
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/usa/nj/Schraalenburgh-Members.shtml

Marriages Hackensack 1696 - 1801
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/usa/nj/Hackensack-Marriages.shtml

Baptisms Hackensack 1696-1783
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/usa/nj/Hackensack-Baptisms.shtml

Consistory Records Hackensack 1701 - 1780
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/usa/nj/Hackensack-Consistory.shtml

or see http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and scroll down to the article
about these church records for links to the data

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I also talked about Unmarked Graves at Staten Island Cemetery Receive Grave
Markers  on http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/

I hope everyone saw this announcement on OliveTreeGenealogy blog "National
Archives and Footnote.com Announce New Digital Holocaust Collection"

Earlier I talked about "Genealogy and Medical Problems or Family Illnesses" and
for the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival I did a post on  Funeral Cards

Please drop by the blog to see what is new there.

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Just to bring you up to date on Ask Olive Tree Blog at
http://askolivetree.blogspot.com here is a list of the questions asked and
answered in the last few weeks:

Finding an Australian transported convict's parents

Finding Ancestors in 1750s New Jersey

Reading old handwriting on Ships Passenger Lists

Finding the Bailey Family in Alabama or Georgia

Where to get help with German Genealogy translations

Finding an ancestor in Castle Garden Ships Passenger Lists

Finding a Ships Passenger List circa 1640s to New Netherland (New York)

Voter's Lists Abbreviations

Obtaining a Copy of Social Security Card Application when SSN is not known

Finding an ancestor on a Ships Passenger List in 1906

Finding an ancestor when you have very little information

Finding Private Grimes

Newcomer Asks Question about Immigration Inconsistencies

Finding an Elusive Ancestor in Census Records

I hope you will drop by and read a few of the questions and answers, then send
me your own challenging genealogy puzzle! Address your questions to
askolivetree@...

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  Don't forget you can follow my genealogy updates on Twitter
http://twitter.com/LorineMS

You can also join the Olive Tree Genealogy interactive page
on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

In case you can't click on that long URL in email, you can
also find the page at http://tiny.cc/RCHYs

Voting is open for the Family Tree Magazine 40 Best
Genealogy Blogs. Be sure to go and cast your votes for your
favourite Genealogy blog in each category at
http://bit.ly/15edO1

OliveTreeGenealogy Blog is honoured to be one of the
nominees in the News & Resources Category

If you like OliveTreeGenealogy blog please vote for it but
if you have other favourites vote for them! Just vote.

The top 80 genealogy blogs with the most votes will go to
one more round of voting, then the final top 40 will be
chosen.


-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze

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