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Re: Polsom - any help please!
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 28 January 07 02:44 GMT (UK) »
Okay fine J.J.....you win...btw Odessa being German Mennonite or Doukabor/Ukrainian? or are you a germanium?  My grandpa's first official landing was in Indian head too..

  Maybe or when I have a free moment I'll check out the one Polsom obituary in the Leader Post.  Possibly find you a living rellie.  As well with Saskatchewan's 100 year anniversary just a year ago there maybe fresh information to look at down at my library.

Where the heck is Montmarte?

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« Reply #19 on: Sunday 28 January 07 04:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi, Jeff ...My Grandparents were from Italy... then Bukovina...(then in Austria...but has changed hands over the years!)  They started out in Balgonie Sask. ....also where they raised the first of their many children... ( so, Italian name, lived in Austria/Hungary and spoke German!)

Montmartre is a little village/town (then a hamlet, I think?) Just a few towns away from Odessa...I think if I remember. Kipling was between them...moved in 1967 so that was a while ago...(ahem...stop doing the math! )


I read the little story on the family...Can't imagine how aweful it must have been to have been abandoned like that in those days...and the bitter cold in the country....

p.s. what did I win?  ;D  trip to the Tropics?  ;) J.J.
p.p.s.....Loved the "Germanium" quip!
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« Reply #20 on: Sunday 28 January 07 05:15 GMT (UK) »
Hi Nicky...Good job that Jeff has come through for you as all I can find are references to Polsoms in sask...One is an advocate of cooperatives and has
a publication...another a politician...etc...
Have tried many things on the 1911...don't see them.... ::) :P :P :-[ :-[ :-\ :-\

Here is your George... definitely says Polsom....but he was under Polson...
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc014/580580a.gif
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc014/580580b.gif

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« Reply #21 on: Sunday 28 January 07 10:36 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks to all of you that have helped me. This is such a leap forward with this line.

I wonder if the 1909 emigration date was right if they cant be found in the 1911 census?

I will be busy today!!

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« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 30 January 07 01:24 GMT (UK) »
Hey Nicky,

   How's the hunting going?  I went down to the library (for you yesterday) and was able to look up that obituary for George Polsom who died in March 12, 1999.

I was able to get a few names of living rellies and phone numbers if you wish to have them.  Just leave me a PM (Rootschat privacy policy notwithstanding)..

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« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 30 January 07 03:00 GMT (UK) »
Nice going Jeff... ;D

Since I haven't lived in Sask for many many moons...I guess YOU win!  ;)


re: Saskatchewan....Here is the mural at the legislatrure designed by hubby's brother that we helped with a few years back...
http://strickland.ca/saskatchewan/20060819-112410.jpg
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« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 30 January 07 03:48 GMT (UK) »
Hey J.J...

  Isn't Mont?? near Indian Head???

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« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 30 January 07 04:05 GMT (UK) »
Yes, a long bumpy horse & buggy ride to the dentist away, if I recall.... :P
Don't laugh, that's how we got there one time, when my mom needed a
ride that's all who was going....and the real nightmare was the dentist at the other end of the journey! Ahhhhhhhh!
We'd better stop hijacking Nicky's post...
Sorry, Nicky! Good luck with your research...
all the best to all of you!...J.J.
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« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 30 January 07 04:22 GMT (UK) »
Jeff, just a thought ( I have those) maybe you know more about the 1911
than I do...I didn't get the numbers on the publication for the area the Polsoms lived in... one of the numbers seemed awefully big & didn't find him on the Land records...
anyhoo....could they maybe have been rural enough to have fallen within
another district for the census?...I just looked and lots of the areas in
Qu`Appelle are not completed yet, including Sintaluta...J.J.
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