Greeting from the Webmaster

Hello everyone!

It's that time again, I'm a bit late this month, and my apologizes! There has been so many great submissions to the site this month I've been busy trying to get everything online as quickly as possible! Many thanks to Peter Rogers and Jerry Vaugn for helping me keep up to speed by transcribing a number of the scanned images you're sending in.
I am still way behind in transcribing articles should anyone be interested, but Peter has been a super help by transcribing all the obits/death notices that come in.
Big thanks to Chris Morrell for her continued work on the Island Tree which is now over 25, 700 people!
Many thanks as well to AM Benson for continually sending in notices of marriage and deaths, and articles from old Kingston Whig issues and for typing up all of the DEATH registrations she's gathered over the years and sending them in (over 300!) Since the last newsletter I put up hundreds of birth and marriage registrations she sent in. I will be putting up these death registrations shortly.

A Few Notes...

Please Support This Site!

Please help support this site! This site grows by the kind submissions of researchers and those interested in preserving their history. Please send in scans of old photos and documents, transcriptions of certificates, obituaries, bibles etc. There is a spot for EVERYTHING on this site, and if there isn't I will make one. Please contact me if you don't have a scanner and would like to mail COPIES of photos or documents for me to scan and/or transcribe. (They will not be returned and you must cover postage costs)
Please help out by sending in anything island related, even if it isn't for your family! Mystery photos are most welcome! Please email me if you would like to help the site grow! Credit will be given to the submitter.

ISLAND SITE WISH LIST

Below are some projects hoped to be added to the site. If you have access to a library or family history center with these films and would be willing to take on the project of transcribing one of the below for the site PLEASE email me.
Census available to order through your library if it doesn't already have them, some also available at LDS family history center. Parish records available through LDS.

• Amherst Island Census- 1851,1861,1871,1891
• Pittsburg twp census (howe island)-1851
• Wolfe Island census- 1851,1891
• St. Andrews Church Parish records (wolfe island)

This site now has over 728 pages up from 709 pages on Jan 5.

This Newsletter has 127 subscribers same as last newsletter.

If you would like to submit a "BRICK WALL" problem to the newsletter please email me with "Newsletter Brick Wall" in the subject line.

What's New...

NEW:

February 7
*15 Wolfe obits-see pg 20
*2 Garden obits
*4 Howe obits-see pg 8
*5 Amherst obits-see pg 5
February 3
*18 Wolfe island obits-pg 19
*2 Howe island obits-pg 8
*1 Garden island obit
*Corrections & Additions to 1887 Irene Bamford diary
January 31
*2 wolfe marriage announcements 1937
*wolfe off island marriages; 1-1905, 2-1891, 1-1893
*2 amherst offisland 1891 marriages
January 27
*10 Wolfe obits
*2 Howe obits
*4 Amherst obits
January 21
*3 Howe 1935 wedding announcements
*3 Wolfe 1935 wedding announcements
January 20
*Amherst birth reg, 1-1876,1-1880, 1-1884,6-1887
*Amherst death reg, 1-1924,1-1925
*1 1911 AI marriage
*2 Glenwwod cem photos and a number of transcriptions
*1 transcripton for St. Bartholomews Amherst
January 19
* 7 Amherst Island photos-people pg 8-surnames: Dennee, Flannagan, Drumgoole, Westwood, Wemp, Bailey, Rigby, Teney, Darrah
January 18
*1905 article wolfe island news, 1917 article horse rescue from lake (WI), 1918 articles McAllister given gold purse (WI), 1927 articles; wolfe twp council, Mrs James Howard Drowns, News Wolfe island, 1926 article news wolfe island
*1935 articles; wolfe ferry, wolfe school wanted, wolfe news x2, wolfe channel deepened, simcoe news
*1933 articles; Howe news, wolfe news, wolfe canal wanted deepened, wolfe play
*Simcoe Island related articles- 3-1994, 4-1995, 1-1996, 2-1997 and 1-1998
*Wolfe island marriages; 3-1883, 3-1888, 9-1891, 6-1895, 3-1897, 5-1898, 2-1900, 9-1901, 14-1903, 7-1904, 2-1905, 3-1909, 1-1915, 1-1916, 2-1918, 2-1919, 1-1920

RECENT:

January 17
*Wolfe island off island marriages; 1-1883, 1-1886, 2-1889,2-1895,1-1897,1-1903,4-1918,1-1919,1-1920
*5 Simcoe off island marriages-see simcoe main island page
*Completed reorganizing all of the Island Articles-now sorted by century, decade and yr.
January 16
*Howe marriages 1-1902, 1-1918, 2-1895
*Howe off island marriages-1-1903
*Garden off island marriages 1 -1905, 1-1904, 1-1903, 2-1898, 1-1883
*Amherst off island marriages 1-1882, 2 1903
January 15
*Census links updated
*Ward 1 of Wolfe island 1861 census
January 13
*1 amherst obit, 2 howe obits, 8 wolfe obits
*1 1918 wolfe birth announcement-surname White
January 9
* 28 wolfe island obits- pg 18
*one garden island obit, 2 amherst obits pg 5, and 2 howe obits pg 8
January 7
*5-1888 garden birth reg
January 6
*9 Amherst obits- pg 5, 2 Simcoe obits-pg 1, and 7 howe obits pg 8
*1 amherst 1934 wedding announcement, 3 for wolfe 1934-see vital records, marriages, the islands main pg then scroll down to newspapers section
*Letter wolfe island-Payne family-see written word- letters section
January 5
*1887 Irene Dixon Bamford diary-see written word, diaries section
*Wolfe birth registrations; 37-1898, 34-1899, 32-1900, 8-1901, 19-1902, 19-1903, 32-1904, 21-1905, 42-1906
*Newsletter sent out.

Coming Soon!

AM Benson has been kind enough to transcribe the Wolfe Island Death registrations she's collected over the years. I hope to start putting these up today or tomorrow.

Chris is still working on transcribing the 1861 Wolfe Island census. She is only doing headings Name, birthplace, religion, age, occupation as this is to be used as a guide. The first Ward is now online.

If you would like to help out by transcribing some island related articles please email me, as I'm getting quite behind in these.

I am still trying to sort out Amherst Island schools- if anyone can help please email me.

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BRICKWALL

"I have spent 20 years trying to tie up loose ends of the following relationship:

HUGH KELSO (KELSEY) GILMORE, b. about 1786 in Cambridge, Washington County, NY; d. 1831-35 on Wolfe Island; m. ELIZABETH SHELLEY about 1804 in NY. They had six or seven children.

ELIZABETH SHELLEY was b. 1776 in NY; d. 1869 in Richfield, Hennepin County, Minnesota. She might have married second a man named SNIDER/SNYDER on Wolfe Island. She left Wolfe Island with her youngest child in 1840 and moved to Minnesota."

If you have any information please EMAIL JIM

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FYI

Patti & Jim Kellar have just published their latest work:
Lennox & Addington County - A Decade of Deaths 1911-1920 ISBN 0-9734926-1-9 - Price $28.00
For more information see their website:
Jim & Patti Kellar's Transcriptions