Tag: Saskatchewan
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1926 Canadian Census to be Released this Year
Update: Hold on To Your Hats, The Census is Coming 92 years ago there was a census taken in Western Canada, and it is due to be released this year. The 1926 census covered the Western Provinces of Canada; Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. The census was taken on June 1, 1926, more information on the…
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Did Your Ancestor Leave You A Clue at the Cemetery?
Did your ancestor leave you a clue at the cemetery? Mine did. Sites like Find-A-Grave and Canadian Headstones are great tools to use in helping us research our family but a trip to your ancestors grave could lead to more discoveries. What you don’t see in the pictures posted on those sites is the headstones…
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Where Are the Marriage Records for Saskatchewan?
Yesterday I went to the Saskatchewan Vital Records website to see if they had finally added the marriage index, and I was sad to see that nothing had changed. The website still indicates that they will work on the Marriage index when they have completed the Death index. Don’t get me wrong the site…
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William Lewis Harrop
I wanted to do a post in celebration of my great grandfather William Lewis Harrop’s birthday. William was the fifth and last child born to parents Lewis Harrop and Anna Eliza Stickle. William was born in the 25 of September in 1854, in Etobicoke, Ontario. The Harrop family had moved from New York sometime between…
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Rachel (Hodgins) Harrop a Fearless Female
Rachel Margaret Hodgins was born on Dec. 3, 1870 in Huntley, Carleton Co., Ontario to parents Rachel Mordy and William W. Hodgins. On the 1871 census Rachel was enumerated at the age of 4 months and was surrounded by Hodgins families. Rachel’s grandparents and many of her father’s siblings are listed next door on the…
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52 Ancestors – #8 Anna Eliza (Stickle) Harrop
Anna is my 2x great grandmother and passed away at the age of 93 in 1907 in Ontario, Canada. I don’t know much about her life, but I will share what I do know with the hopes of uncovering more information. Census records list Anna as being born in the United States in 1814, and…
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