Still more Hamiltons

I just completed a lot of updates - mostly on the Hamiltons in Ontario and North Dakota.  Much of the new information came from Ontario parish registers, census records, and North Dakota death records.  Check the Recent Updates page for the changes since I last published (13 Jan 2013).

Tanner Updates

My cousin Soo Broder Tanner sent some updates for the Tanner family.  Those changes and a couple of new documents have been added to the Broder part of the site.

Doyle and Dunn and Hamilton, oh my!

For the past few months I have been collecting new and additional information on the many branches of my Doyle line.  I found about 200 parish register entries on familysearch.org and those led me to search for other records on familysearch and on ancestry.  The result was a huge amount of new information to be added to my database and published.

I finally decided that I couldn't wait until all the information was processed before re-publishing the site.  So as of last night, about 160 people have been updated or added.  Please check the Recent Updates page to see all the changes since the last time I published (September 2012 I think).

Cousins' families

I've added and updated a number of records for a couple of my cousins' families.  My aunt Edna McLeod Broder is the granddaughter of Thomas Cooper and Sarah Rolston; I've added some details on their family.  I'd copied a lot of their vital records on my recent visit to the BC Archives, but of course, now that I'm home, I realize I missed a few. 

I also found some vital records for members of the William James Manery family. 

Orson Hall family updatea

I've added a number of photos of people, places, and tombstones for some members of the Orson Hall family. Most of the changes relate to events in Dry Fork, Utah.  The Recent Updates list for October 8th and 9th will show you which records changed.

Tribute to Robert Broder

On 1 Sept 2012, a plaque was installed at the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden in Lethbridge, AB in tribute to Robert Broder for his kindness to the Japanese internees during WWII. 

New Manery children

Thanks to Elaine Willson, I now have the names of William James Manery's two youngest children.  They are Ettie May Manery and Frederick Sydney Manery. These are now included on both the Broder and the Striker parts of the site.

Gavin Updates

I did a bunch of updates to the Benjamin Gavin family today.  Benjamin married my great-grandaunt Edith Hamilton.  I added a photo that is believed to be of Edith about 1898 - if you recognize the photo and can confirm that it is or isn't Edith, please let me know.

I also added information about  Benjamin and Edith's children.

Sarah Jones

Judy Lindsay, my fifth cousin once removed, in Australia sent me some information on her line of descent from Sarah Jones.   Sarah's grandson, Anselm Frederick Goring was the first, and probably the only, member of the family to move to Australia.

Elizabeth Broder

I have finally made some progress in my search for my great-grandaunt Elizabeth Broder.   I have known for a long time that she spent some time in the United States, around 1880.  I knew that she married Robert Jones and that they lived in Wales.  And I knew that after Robert's death, sometime before 1943, she moved to Belfast where she died in 1951. 

I didn't know when or where she and Robert married, where they lived in Wales, or anything about him.  Today I found them on the 1911 census of Wales.  They were living in Dolgelly, Merionethshire and they had been married for 6 years. 

The census information led me, I think, to Robert's death - I've sent for the death certificate for confirmation.

Now to figure out WHERE they married.  I didn't find a record in Dolgelly.  The search continues.

Striker & Colvig Updates

My fourth cousin once removed, George Striker, died on 9 May 2012.  I have added some details for his family and a transcript and image of his obituary.

I've aded some details on the military career of Hubert Melville Colvig.  The details are sketchy and could lead to some interesting research - for example, he was court martialed (what for?) but apparently not convicted (he seems to have been re-assigned afterwards).  But he later claimed to have been dishonorably discharged. (Another court martial?)  So many questions . . . .

Robert Gordon Manery

My first cousin once removed, Robert Gordon Manery (aka Uncle Gordon), died on 31 May 2012 at the age of 92.  I have updated his page and added the obittuary that appeared in the Lethbridge Herald.

Many (many, many) changes & additions to the Doyle site

Over the past month or so I've received a lot of information from cousins of various degrees.  It's kept me busy doing updates and additions and doing online lookups.  Much of what I received is now online.  (Finally, some might say.)

Mary Carroll sent me copies of two wonderful photos: John and Lydia (Nolan) Burns, and Jane Burns, their daughter, who became Sister Helen of the Cross.  Mary had received the photos from Jerry Moore who then provided me with a large selection of photos and a great deal of information on the descendants of John K Hamilton. 

I've added some of the photos and most of the new details that Jerry sent, and augmented that with lots of records from various online sources.  The families with the most additions are the Wilds (John and Elizabeth's daughter Mary Jane) and the Moores (John and Elizabeth's daughter Edith Eileen)

RJ Svitak photographed the tombstone of John G Hamilton and his wife Selma C Oksendahl and posted it on findagrave.com for me.  It's now attached to John's and Selma's records.

Charlotte (Watson) Grimshaw sent news of a new daughter and of Edmund Grimshaw's marriage and baby.

I've also made changes to Regans, Jordans, and Dunns.

As always, check the Recent Updates page for a list of all changes since the last upload on 16 April 2012.

Alan Scott Drummond

Jerry Sherard sent me an item from the BC Minister of Mines Annual Report for 1949 that briefly describes the mining accident that killed Alan Scott Drummond.  I've added the information to Alan's page on the Jones portion of the site.

Striker updates and Search feature

I've made a number of additions to the Stiker portion of the site.  These are mostly in the Venable and Bouker families.  I was recently contacted by a "new" third cousin, David Bouker, who has provided some information on his family. (Thanks Dave!)   The records that have been changed or added are listed on the Recent Updates page.

New Feature: You'll see a new Search item on the menu bar of all pages. This will allow you to search for names, dates, places, etc. It's a very fast way to get directly to the page you're interested in. (Click here to go directly to this new page.)