Metis / Saskatchewan family research

[vbain]

More and more cemeteries are coming on line
Try

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansacem/

[J.J.]

I hope that your friend will go about proving the actual ancestry before hanging his hat on someone else's pin, as info not always proven
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Batoche/en/en_cemetery.swf
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/sayer1.htm

[daval57]

That's my job JJ! 
I'm gathering as many census and other records together as I can and cross referring them all checking known dates names etc.  Martin has some family records too.

Vbain, thanks for that cemetery link.  More homework! 

Dave

[J.J.]

Crikey, how nice of you!!! Can I give you mine?     I was going to replace a link that went nowhere, but then I realized it wasn't the correct link anyway, so I'll put it up if I can find the right one
More Sayer 
"Joseph Turpin Toutpetite Vermette " aka Vermette dit Turpin (or TURPIN DIT VERMETTE)...Oh the dits will make you crazy!
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=wjones&id=I0816

[J.J.]

New resource...Early Manitoba families from the kipling collection!!! Use * for any vowels or repeated consonants
ie:     verm*t*   finds vermet
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/001/098/index-e.html