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You can now search all the transcribed parish records from right here !
You can search by surname or  location name.

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we have also posted transcripts here : http://missisquoigenealogy2.blogspot.com/

We have transcribed parishes records from

• Abercorn Universalist 1878-1879
• Bedford Methodist Church
• Brome and Cowansville Congregational
• Brome Church of England
• Brome Congregational Church 1843-1852
• Brome, Sutton Second Advent Church 1855-1877
• Cowansville - Brome Methodist 1877-1879
• Dunham Baptist 1858-1860
• Dunham Circuit Methodist : New Connexion Church
• Dunham United Methodist - Stewards book
• Dunham, Farnham, Stanbridge : Seigniory of Saint Armand Second Advent
• East Farnham Second Advent 1877-1879
• Frelighsburg Baptist 1850-1879
• Missisquoi Church of Scotland
• Philipsburg Congregational 1845-1862
 • Phillipsburg Methodist 1864-1879
 • Saint Armand Methodist Church of Canada 1831-1836
 • Stanbridge Second Advent Church 1862-1869
• Stanbridge St James Church of England

EXCITING NEWS! We have been granted a Missisquoi ( historic county ) Rootsweb Message Board

This is exciting ! I noticed that Rootsweb were now allowing the formation  of some ‘Historic counties’ Canadian  Message boards so I applied to be granted a Missisquoi one and it was!

Yippee! This should be another great tool.

What I would like is for EVERYONE to post ( it’s called start a new thread) the surnames/ families you are researching in the area.

Post your surnames in the subject area and towns if known,  then in the body add additional any information you may have with your contact information .

You can check the box -if you want to receive an email  if anyone responds to your message.

*Note that  you also post your surnames again  in the surname box beneath the message box, this will help make the names in the message searchable throughout all the boards.

Do this today! Thanks Nancy

Go here :  http://bit.ly/10W6AnT

** you can also set up message board alerts and favorites ( top right )

Transcribing projects of our Rootsweb Group- get involved.

This group has always actively worked on transcribing records to help further genealogical research in the Missisquoi area  !

In the past we have transcribe Canadian census years and microfilmed Notary records , we have recently been working on scanned parish records at Family Search from churches in our area.

 We have to date transcribed in full text over 5,000 records

We always can use help, it's easy anyone can do it you don't need to know anything technical or have any special software you just need the internet a document client ( MS Word, word pad, outlook etc ) 

Here is a sample project:

Note * we might not be working on this project whenever you read this post but a list and link to our projects will always be in a box to the right !

 http://bit.ly/13owmGN






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This is one of our current projects of our Missisquoi Rootsweb group. We believe in giving back to those that helped us and making it easier for others researching in the area.

If you'd like to volunteer to transcribe please take one of the 25 image batches from Saint Armand Methodist 1837-1870 records you see below.

We use a snazzy volunteer sign up site called Sign up Genius !


The images are on Family Search .org and you can find them through this link. here

 Instructions : Just put your image number into top right box and it will bring you to the 1st image # in your batch.

Below is what they look like, you just transcribe the exact text. Don’t worry about formatting or anything else, you can just type directly into any word /text document you want to use. (even into email )
 If you can’t read a name or word just make a note and put an *around the word and we’ll figure it out later ! These will be posted for all to see on our Missisquoi Genealogy Research Blog and later the facts will be extracted into Excel database.

Sample text : Beatty Baptized } On this thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, Elizabeth , daughter of Andrew Beatty and Amelia Pernelia his wife of Stanbridge , born the tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty four, was baptized in the presence of the subscribing witness by me I. Constantine Minister of St James Church Stanbridge East Witness : Martha Prathe, Andrew Beatty

Questions ?? email Nancy cunningb2@gmail.com 
Thanks so much!

Rootsweb Missisquoi County Volunteer Transcription Project Fun Facts

Rootsweb Missisquoi County Volunteer Transcription Project Fun Facts
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We have about even male/female transcribers

Don’t think transcribers only live in Canada, we have volunteers who live all over the world : New Zealand, New Hampshire , Scotland , Texas , Ontario, New Hampshire, Michigan and Ohio

We're not only transcribing full text of records but we are also extracting this data to excel databases ( if you’d like to work on one of these email me Nancy cunningb2@gmail.com )

 It's very easy and fun ( and a little addicting ;-)) the records are only a few sentences long each and you need no special software or computer knowledge. We do them in batches of 25 so they are just an evenings worth of work at a time. You just need internet access and any text program. ( even just email)

We work in the Missisquoi county area and are now doing projects in Sutton and St Armand.

We have new projects planned in Frelighsburg and Bolton. We can do as many projects as we have volunteers to do them.

If you have ever found a much needed record of an ancestor birth, death or burial it's because someone transcribed the original record, indexed it and made it public.

We believe in "paying it forward " and doing good deeds in genealogy. You can now sign up online any time you'd like to volunteer using SignUpGenius http://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050E4BAAAF2CA02-starmand  ( or contact me for link to latest project)

 We have to date transcribed 5,000 images ( or about 7500 individual baptism, marriage and burial parish records)

 Before this project this Rootsweb group transcribed the 1851 census and McGregor notary records –you can see these old (2005 and 2006) projects here:
 http://www.griffincunningham.net/davis/misscountymain2.htm 

** If you are researching in this area make sure you are a member of our Rootsweb group http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-QC-MISSISQUOI.html 

 We have transcribed parishes from
• Abercorn Universalist 1878-1879
• Bedford Methodist Church
• Brome and Cowansville Congregational
• Brome Church of England
• Brome Congregational Church 1843-1852
• Brome, Sutton Second Advent Church 1855-1877
• Cowansville - Brome Methodist 1877-1879
• Dunham Baptist 1858-1860
• Dunham Circuit Methodist : New Connexion Church
• Dunham United Methodist - Stewards book
• Dunham, Farnham, Stanbridge : Seigniory of Saint Armand Second Advent
• East Farnham Second Advent 1877-1879
• Frelighsburg Baptist 1850-1879
• Missisquoi Church of Scotland
• Philipsburg Congregational 1845-1862
 • Phillipsburg Methodist 1864-1879
 • Saint Armand Methodist Church of Canada 1831-1836
 • Stanbridge Second Advent Church 1862-1869
• Stanbridge St James Church of England

List of municipalities in the province of Quebec (1886)

cihm_02680 by Nancy

Ploss Cemetery

Quebec Research Guide

Quebec by Nancy

Frelighsburg Drawing

Frelighsburg town map