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The Common Room / Re: British Home Children: Minnie PRICE
« on: Tuesday 13 November 18 21:12 GMT (UK)  »
The British Home Children database which is securely hidden somewhere on this site does contain information that cannot be found elsewhere.  I have seen it and used it some years ago, but now cannot find.

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The Common Room / Re: British Home Children: Minnie PRICE
« on: Tuesday 13 November 18 20:59 GMT (UK)  »
Miinie's original and still unanswered question is where is the database?  I have spent too much time running in circles trying to access it.  Maybe it's one other thing on this site that is only useable on Windows PCs.

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Canada / Re: Missing Home Child
« on: Monday 12 November 18 23:29 GMT (UK)  »
In western Canada there is no 100 year rule, check these free sites:

Manitoba http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php

Saskatchewan https://www.ehealthsask.ca/residents/marriages/Pages/Order-a-Marriage-Certificate.aspx

Alberta http://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how-to/find-birth-marriage-death-records/Default.aspx

British Columbia http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy

Manitoba has an 80 year marriage rule, the other 3 have a 75 year rule.  Manitoba marriages are easy to find on their site and they only charge $12 for a certificate available to anyone, but their service is a disgrace in the opinion of this Manitoban.  They take three months to deliver after an order has been placed.  Saskatchewan makes Manitoba look like a genealogist paradise, they have no online index, they are very expensive & they are very restrictive as to who can obtain info.  Alberta has a quirky browsable index of marriages, which requires a good deal of patience to search, but then are low cost and speedy in service.  British Columbia has by far the best system since their easy to search index leads to actual images of the document at no cost.  Every province in Canada should follow BC's example, except for their 120 year rule re births.

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Canada / Re: The Rev Evan Richards in Bangor and Llewelyn
« on: Friday 02 November 18 13:00 GMT (UK)  »
1935 Canada Voters List has him in High Prairie, Alberta.  No wife listed, maybe he married in Alberta between 1935 and 1938.  Alberta marriage records for that period can be searched online by a tedious process.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Hannah Mae "May" WHITMARSH nee MORRIS (1886-1961) Humboldt SK
« on: Wednesday 29 August 18 12:01 BST (UK)  »
Nice find Cosmac, Doris Fay LEWIS was living in Collingwood, Ontario at the time of her brother Clair's death in 1980.  Thanks to RunKitty for Orville & Clair WHITMARSH obits, will PM her to see if she can find Fay's.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Hannah Mae "May" WHITMARSH nee MORRIS (1886-1961) Humboldt SK
« on: Wednesday 29 August 18 00:03 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to Lilybell for obtaining Chauncey Garfield Whitmarsh obituary.  Sandra, please see if you can find any trace of daughter Fay (Mrs M.O. Lewis) who was living in Daytona Beach, Florida at the time of her father's death in 1971.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Hannah Mae "May" WHITMARSH nee MORRIS (1886-1961) Humboldt SK
« on: Monday 27 August 18 01:51 BST (UK)  »
Sandra, I think you found my late wife’s family tree on Ancestry which I still manage.  All the info on that tree was found by yours truly and none of it is copied from other trees.  I have Mary Ellen’s death certificate from Saskatchewan which lists her birth date, her birth in Kentucky and her parents names, none of which can be confirmed.  The first trace of Mary Ellen which can be found in the records is the 1885 North Dakota census.  You are free to try and find any trace of her before 1885, but I will bet you a moderate amount that you will fail.  I have tentatively added a sister for Mary Ellen recently through dna links but am not convinced of the relationship.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Hannah Mae "May" WHITMARSH nee MORRIS (1886-1961) Humboldt SK
« on: Sunday 26 August 18 23:46 BST (UK)  »
Lilybell, I searched the Humboldt library site a few days ago and learned they have the Humboldt newspaper archive on microfilm and, like you, realized that searching a year’s worth of papers would be simplified by knowing the date of Hannah’s death.  I live a 5 hour drive away from Humboldt so doing the search myself would be more time-consuming and expensive than practical.  I plan to phone the cemetery, local undertakers and the library to see if the search can be simplified and made more economical.  Sandra, thanks for trying to help, I tracked down Hannah’s grandson (the one who signed his father’s death cert in BC) some years ago and still have his old e-mail address which might still work.  Finding Hannah’s parents identity is a brickwall I have been banging my head against for ten or fifteen years now and I have recently had dna tests done which lead to matches which might involve Hannah’s descendants, whom I had no great interest in until now.

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Canada Lookup Request / Hannah Mae "May" WHITMARSH nee MORRIS (1886-1961) Humboldt SK
« on: Wednesday 22 August 18 12:54 BST (UK)  »
Seeking obituary for subject lady who lived her married life in or nearby Humboldt, Saskatchewan.  If not available then obit for her husband Garfield Chauncey WHITMARSH (1884-1971).  Humboldt obits might appear in Saskatoon daily papers.

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