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Comment by Kelly on April 22, 2010 at 3:00pm

If anyone is doing research in Wentworth, Ontario, Canada...I just started a new site to list all the links/information I can find about this area. There is a forum if you want to chat as well. I just started it, so need to add lots more...but check it out if you want.
http://familyhistoryfun.webs.com

Comment by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on April 18, 2010 at 7:18am

Hello Lisa

If you look over the discussions and posts here, you'll see that is what we do. I live in Ontario - what is it you need help with?

Comment by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on April 18, 2010 at 1:22am

is there anyone here in Ontario that could give advise or do lookups?

Comment by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on February 23, 2010 at 6:48pm

Have you seen the 1802 list of Haldimand residents? There are several WAIT men on it. There are later years too

Also, have you checked Upper Canada Land Petitions to see if your men submitted petitions for land? if they did those petitions can be a wealth of genealogical/family information

Also you might want to check the CLRI ( Ontario Land Record Index) for your names

The Computerized Land Record Index (aka Ontario Land Record Index) summarizes land grants of Crown Land, sales of land from Canada Company sales or leases and from Peter Robinson settlers' grants. If your ancestor settled anywhere in Ontario and he was the first time owner of Crown Land, he should be on these lists.

The information from the lists includes date of purchase, type of purchase, residence of purchaser, land location (lot, concession, township), type of purchase (very important to knowing whether or not there are more records available!), archival reference (where full record can be found) and often more info such as date of land ticket, or date of petition for land, etc.

Comment by Blair Waite on February 23, 2010 at 11:52am

Hello friends,
I'm new here, but thought I'd post my biggest challenge currently in my family tree. I'm a Waite descended from Griffin Wait (b.1809, m. Elizabeth Sprung) and his father Samuel Waite (b. 1873/5, m. Rachel Tarbush). They came from Dutchess County, NY to Haldimand township around 1812, then on to Cramahe township in the 1820's.
I'm trying to trace Samuel's parents. I have some notes that his father was George, but no documents to this extent. There was a George that settled in the area, as well, and some speculation that it might be the same George Wait who was father to Enoch and Briggs Wait, who both eventually settled in Quebec. Enoch was also in Haldimand/Cramahe in 1797, it seems.
Making this link to Samuel's father would really help, especially as I do the DNA test to help flush out the Waite genealogy project.
Thanks for any knowledge, and let me know if I can provide any insight in return. Other families in my tree include McShane, Denyes and Lattimore.

Comment by Helen Pust on February 22, 2010 at 1:14pm

Good day all
The Worsfold family of my tree immigrated to Canada in 1905 and 1906. They lived and many still do in the Trenton - Belleville area. Richard Benjamin and Sarah Jane Worsfold came from London, England. Because my computer gave up the "ghost" as things do happen, I lost many email addresses of family in the Belleville area. Other surnames by marriage of my Aunts are Chumbley, Albard, Sanderson and Hutchinson. Uncle's Jesse and Ben moved to Alberta in 1910 as they were able to work for the railroad. My g. grandfather Richard moved here shortly after they did to farm in the Big Valley area. My grandmother married Harry Louden in 1908 at the Bridge Street United Church. He was a blacksmith and owned his own shop, which I was recently told the sign was still there on the side of the building. They moved to Alberta in 1912.
Other families in Ontario I am searching are: Dent, Ross, and Bradford. These families were also in the Palmerston area. Any help would be appreciated.

Comment by Kathy Dauzet on February 19, 2010 at 3:09pm

Last names are English and Mitchell

Comment by Ann Hausler Harrington on February 19, 2010 at 1:08am

Hi all!
I am looking to connect with descendants of Donald MacDonald and Catherine MacGillis. They left Knoydart on the Macdonald in 1786 and settled in Glengarry Ontario. I am a descendant of their son Angus Roy MacDonald. Interested in knowing more about the Macdonalds that stayed behind in Knoydart or who were ancestors of these emigrants to Canada. Thanks!

Comment by Liz Loveland on February 9, 2010 at 11:05am

In fact, I do! :-) Many of the people I am researching have their graves up on that site - it's been nice to see them without having had the opportunity to travel to Innerkip.

Did you know that the Tweedsmur Histories are being put online by the Ontario Genealogical Society? I'm also thrilled about that! They're some of the few publicly available documents of Innerkip and many of the other tiny towns in the area. (My cousin sent me copies of some of the documentation of Innerkip after she visited OGS.)

Comment by Helen Scarth on February 9, 2010 at 10:47am

Hi Liz,

Did you know that what looks like all the gravestones in Oxford County have been photographed and are available on the Web? it's a fantastic resource.

Address is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dcoop/

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