What have we on the Rootsweb Missisquoi list accomplished in 2012?

Let’s start with the research blog…

Research blog http://missisquoigenealogy.blogspot.com/ Almost 100 blog posts –this year! Scroll to archive ( right column) and you can click on them month by month. We average almost 1,000 page views a month.

Transcription Project When LDS ( Family Search ) started posting Missisquoi area parish registers we started a project to transcribe, publish and create searchable databases for these records. This has been he perfect example of crowd sourcing a project , we’ve had over 20 volunteers working countless hours transcribing and data mining these old parish records. We have transcribed almost 4,000 images which could represent as many as 6000 individual records. http://missisquoigenealogy.blogspot.com/   Right hand column list links to all parishes we have complete and we are working on 2 new projects and always need volunteers.

Cemeteries We took every single headstone photos and burial records ( it was hundreds of records) that were sent to me over the past 8 years that I had been posted on a hodge-podge of my old web pages and merged them with existing free online cemetery collections on Find -a -Grave and or Interment.net. ( many volunteers helped !) We also created a few new cemetery listings ! ( notably Chandler) http://missisquoigenealogy.blogspot.com/ right column list all links to area cemeteries

Rootsweb Mailing list Members of this community helped each other and query posters wanting information on ancestors/families from the area or help on researching. ( looks like almost 400 posts)

This January marks the 8th year of this list and my being admin/founder.

browse http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/CAN-QC-MISSISQUOI/

search http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-QC-MISSISQUOI  

Thanks to everyone and Happy New Year !

1790s Baptist Preacher's visit to Caldwell's Manor and 1786 Land Petition

Linda writes ..

Here is 1790s Baptist Preacher's visit to Caldwell's Manor. ... I've included a 1786  Lower Canada Land Petition for Caldwell's Manor folks to go with it.

Caldwell's Manor Baptist

In old Missisquoi with history and reminiscences of Stanbridge Academy

In old Missisquoi with history and reminiscences of Stanbridge Academy by Julia H.S. Bugeia and Theodora Cornell Moore.

Trish has emailed me from Vancouver to say she visited a local thrift shop and found a copy of this book and in the book were many clippings and obits. It's possible one of the authors Julia Bugeia or Theodora Moore actually owned this copy of the book.

Now how the little book made it all the way to western Canada is unknown... She has nicely scanned all the articles and you can see them all here ... let me know if you know anything about this book or the authors cunningb2@gmail.com

Names include: Bugeia, Cornell, Moore, Rixford and Constantine


inoldmissisquoiw00bugeuoft

Contributions to the history of the Eastern Townships

Contributions to the history of the Eastern Townships : a work containing an account of the early settlement of St. Armand, Dunham, Sutton, Brome, Polton, and Bolton : with a history of the principal events that have transpired in each of these townships up to the present time (1866)

 Author: Thomas, C. (Cyrus), 1836-1908

read it here

G. T. Batchelder, Proprietor, Missisquoi County, Quebec

American House, G. T. Batchelder, Proprietor, Missisquoi County, Quebec H. Belden Co. (Publisher - éditeur) 1881, 19th century Ink on paper - Photolithography 14.8 x 40.5 cm Gift of Mr. Colin McMichael M987.253.518 © McCord Museum

Residence of John Massie Junior, Missisquoi County, Quebec

Creative Commons License Image Pairs Create a new pair Pairs created by visitors : 0 Print (photomechanical) Residence of John Massie Junior, Missisquoi County, Quebec H. Belden Co. (Publisher - éditeur) 1881, 19th century Ink on paper - Photolithography 5.6 x 8.8 cm Gift of Mr. Colin McMichael M987.253.507 © McCord Museum

1855 Militia of Stanbridge, Missisquoi, Captain John Corey's Company November 24, 1855 Roster

1855 Militia of Stanbridge, Missisquoi, Quebec Roster
 Captain John Corey's Company November 24, 1855

 The Sedentary Militia, an unpaid and compulsory force of all able-bodied males aged 18 to 60 organized along county lines. The Militia Act of 1855 permitted the formation of independent volunteer companies ("Active Militia") which in 1860 began to form into battalions that gradually eclipsed the Sedentary Militia. In 1864 the Sedentary Militia was re-styled "Non-Service Militia", and in 1869 its battalions were reduced to the "Reserve Militia" of each county. The Reserve Militia was last enrolled in 1873 (but never called out), deferred thereafter, and the theory that every able-bodied man was liable for service was finally abolished in 1950. The Army does not recognized regimental lineages pre-dating 1860, but regiments unofficially claim descent from the Sedentary Militia.

More Info:  1855 Militia Act

Stanbridge ~ November 24, 1855 Roll of officers and men liable to militia service in Captain John Corey Company of first Battalion of the Missisquoi Militia Roster here

1855 Stanbridge Militia by Nancy on Scribd

Chandler Cemetery Stanbridge

Chandler 2

Cemetery Locations Around Missisquoi Bay by David Ellis

Some Cemetery Locations Around Missisquoi Bay
I (David Ellis) have had difficulty locating some of the cemeteries in the region around Missisquoi Bay. With a lot of help from Doug Macfie for those in Clarenceville and Noyan region and from Brenda Birch for those farther west, I have managed to mark many of them. The following list contains links to the location in Google Maps. Most of these cemeteries are distinctly visible in the centre of the satellite image. If you zoom out from these positions without changing position, the location becomes readily apparent in the context of the town.

A recent addition to Google maps has permitted a further feature - the ability for you to directly 'visit' some of these cemeteries yourself. [I recommend you experiment with this using Dairy Valley Baptist cemetery in Clarenceville to see the effect.] After Google has loaded the map, you will see an orange colored icon of a person in the navigation bar on the left. Click on that person and drag them onto the road closest to the center of the map and hold them there a moment without releasing the mouse. [Look for the green highlight underneath the person to see what is indicated.] If the road develops a blue line along it, you have got a good one. Release the mouse and wait for the Internet to download images. You may click in the picture and drag it around to see the entire surroundings or may zoom in and out. Look for the white arrow heads in the road and click on either one to move down the road in the direction indicated. [To return to normal viewing mode, click the 'close window' symbol that is actually on the map in the top right corner.] Google is expected to add more routes over time. Because cemeteries are often not close to a reasonable road, only about half are visible at this time.

Check out David's list here

Addie Allen Autograph book from 1874-1875 Stanbridge

Addie Allen Autograph

Some of the names are :Myrtie, May Cornell, Emma, Sanford Brenhauer, W.H. Jacques, Helen Gardner, H.L. Perry, Charles L. Jacques, Carrie, Emma O. Pettingall...

May Cornell may be daughter of SH Cornell census 1871
Helen may be daughter of Morency Gardner census 1871
H.L. Perry may be son of Henry Perry census 1871

Pettingall St Albans VT
Jacques St Albans VT
Otherss from Boston and Mass

If you know anyone from this book email me cunningb2@gmail.com

Orientation Services for Clients Library and Archives Canada

Deaths in Year 1851 Stanbridge East

Deaths in Year 1851 Stanbridge East 1851 Census

Early Settlers of Stanbridge East

Early Settlers of Stanbridge East

Stanbridge East Newspaper : Township Reformer

Stanbridge East Newspaper: Township Reformer

Stanbridge Agreement to Form 1800

Stanbridge Agreement to Form 1800

Missisquoi connected families in mystery photo

From an email I received....

I have sent this photo to so many people, genealogical societies, libraries etc. In hopes of discovering where this photo was taken, and what was
the occasion. I was thinking that maybe you could post it to your blog to ask your readers to comment.
Unfortunately, the possible date span of 1910-1913 places my family in several locations. So I cannot even begin to pin down where this Library was located. It had to have been a very important occasion for them to all get together.

The photographer wrote April 10 on the front, but my grandfather wrote the year 1913 on the back. A few of the people in this photo are of my family. Surnames, Howie, Rider, Hand and Mayo to name a few. My belief, however not positive, is that the couple seated in the
center of the front row is Clara Annette Rider, and her spouse Robert Alexander Butterworth. Don't quote me on that though. The last census I find is 1891 listing Robert & Clara Butterworth in Shefford, Quebec, Canada. I believe he remarried in 1915,
after this photo was taken....Someone in a prior response to my requests noted that many of them have a white button they are wearing. Not sure what this was for.

If you have ideas about this photo email Rich

Richard Howie howieventura(atnetscape.net

Charles E.Conklin Ancestry

Conklin Charles E Ancestory

Conklin in Troy, Orleans County, Vermont; Stanbridge, St. Armand, and Dunham, Missisquoi, Quebec; and Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont.
Evert or Everts in Stanbridge and St. Armand, Missisquoi, Quebec
Darby in Stanbridge, Missisquoi, Quebec
Buxton in Proctersville, Windsor County, Vermont
Perault in St. Armand, Missisquoi, Quebec
Fleming in St. Armand, Missisquoi, Quebec

Townsend Hall family research- Farnham

Townsend Hall Final Ver

St. Armand List of Landholders, 1804

St. Armand List of Landholders, 1804 - contributed by David J. Ellis,

 About St. Armand North and South Roads Notary Léon Lalanne: Unumbered January 1804 Roads in St. Armand In 1804 the Land

Proprietors in St. Armand were asked which of two roads they preferred to be the legal road across the Ranges. The vote taken was recorded and is useful as an early census of land owners in the town. go here

Ancestry 15th Anniversary - Quebec Vital and Church Records, 1621-1967

How to Begin your Search Online Library and Archives Canada www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

Tracing your ancestors in Canada

Tracing your ancestors in Canada

Think Digitization During Preservation Week- here is how I'm doing it !

I can’t stress enough that everyone needs to begin digitizing your genealogy records. ( photos, documents etc. )
I bought three scanners this year and have launched into a massive project of digitizing all my old 3 ring notebooks and photo albums  !
I spent $400 bucks and bought 3 scanners, list below but I have already accomplished so much and have the tools to keep going

I bought

• Wireless HP scanner you can buy one as cheap as $66 bucks and mine is just great
BUY HERE

• Neat scanner - small wand ( it’s so wonderful and is great for your taxes and receipts ) $170
buy here

• FlipPal portable , batter operated scanner for photos ( $149 you can scan photos while you are watching TV or take it with you to the next reunion or family get together )
Buy here

I will post these links to the blog here , if you want to take a look or buy one of these great scanners !

Think Digitization During Preservation Week
read on here 

Land Record research in Archives

Dr David Ellis sent this last week...

Many of you, as well as myself, have had occasion to use and refer to the Lower Canada Land Records. The great majority of those that I've seen come from microfilms at Library and Archives Canada (or the copies in the Quebec Archives or the copies made by the LDS). That majority come from a collection referenced as RG1 L3L, many of which are now available online at the Library and Archives Canada web site.

To get to the point of this story, Mary Munch recently drew sent me a copy of a land petition that looked for all the world like it was from that same collect. I could not find it and upon closer investigation I found that it came from a completely different set held by Library and Archives Canada. I have just received a reply from Library and Archives Canada explaining why it was not in the data set RG1 L3L. A fascinating story but to cut to the chase it seems that there is a quite massive other set of land (and other) records known as the "S Series" covering 1760 to 1841. There are apparently 5760 volumes, bundles and portfolios in this set but only 131 have been microfilmed. The rest are paper documents on their shelves and there is no reliable index to them!
None are available online.

The description of what these records really are is in a five page Postscript file so I cannot post it to this list. If you are researching land records and would like to see the Postscript description please email me and I will forward you a copy.

Here is a copy David sent today ... thanks!

RG4A1-S-SeriesDescription

AS to search Davis discusses here is more on that

I believe most of us know that Library and Archives Canada has put the Land Petitions from RG1 L3L online. There is a good search engine provided with it but my own experience is that it fails to find quite a few known references, possible due to transcription errors or just omissions. The LAC does not provide a browse capability for these records. In order to supplement what they do provide I have added a viewer to Eastern Townships Archives (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qceastwn/archives.html).

The link to it is on that page at the bottom of the group called "Maps, Lists and Miscellaneous" (the "Land Petitions from RG1 L3L"). That link will provide a table that lists all of the pages that have been placed online by LAC. If you select any page group from that list it will popup a viewer page and will show each page in turn for 2 seconds - slide show style. When you see something that may be interesting, just click anywhere in the image and it will stop the slide show and allow you to navigate back and forth manually.

I have checked this on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and on Firefox. It probably works on Google's Chrome browser or any other full featured browser but I have not verified on those others.

Sheldon, Vermont map with land owner key

Thanks to Nicole for this wondeful map  of Sheldon.
Sheldon is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States.

Sheldon Map PDF

Brome County Cemetery Records

Brome county cemeteries on Internment.net
http://www.interment.net/can/qc/brome.htm

Austin Catholic Cemetery
Bolton Centre Cemetery
Brock Memorial Park
Bryant Cemetery
Chapel Hill Cemetery
Duboyce Cemetery
East Bolton Cemetery
Elkins Cemetery
Fulford Cemetery
George Cemetery
Gilman Cemetery (Mansonville)
Gilman Cemetery (West Brome)
Glenbrook Cemetery
Glen Farnham Cemetery
Hillhouse Cemetery
Holy Trinity Cemetery
Holy Trinity Church Cemetery
Iron Hill & Center Road Cemetery
Knowlton Cemetery
Leadville Cemetery
Mansonville Cemetery
Miltimore Cemetery
Mudgett Cemetery
Old Abercorn Cemetery
Orcutt Family Burying Ground
Pettes Cemetery
Pettes Aseltine Cemetery
Pleasant Valley Cemetery
Ruiter Settlement Cemetery
Saint John Cemetery
Silver Valley Cemetery
South Sweet Cemetery
Stone Church Cemetery
Sweet Cemetery               
Union Cemetery (Iron Hill)
Union Cemetery (S. Bolton)
Westover Cemetery

Map of the Counties of Shefford, Iberville, Brome, Missisquoi, and Rouville, Canada East.

Title: Map of the Counties of Shefford, Iberville, Brome, Missisquoi, and Rouville, Canada East.
Publisher: H.F. Walling, 1864.
Source: Missisquoi Museum
Description:
This is a very nice map depicting not only roads, railroads, and civil subdivisions but, in many cases, lot numbers and even owners of specific lots. This astonishing amount of detail is only possible because of the size of the original map: 138 x 140 cm! The map also reflects the early settlement by Anglophones, visible through the owners' names on each lot. Anglicized place names ("Lake," "River" and "Road"), and even archaic place names such as Mont Johnson (Mont-Gregoire) and St. Johns (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) dot the map.see map here



http://www.atlas-richelieu-missisquoi.org/

Genealogical Research: United Church of Canada Records -Family History Tool

Family History Tool

The Missisquoi Museum in Stanbridge East - Québec, Canada [video]

Library and Archives Canada has added digitized images of Upper Canada land petitions

Library and Archives Canada has added digitized images of Upper Canada land petitions (357,831 new images in all) to its website. First search the index here (use the search link at the left; the one on the bottom didn't work for me) to find the microfilm number you need, then use the “microform digitization” research tool to you can browse the image page by page.

read on here 

National Archives Announces Website for 1940 Census Records Posted

When the 1940 census is released free online this April 2 at 9 a.m. ET, you can view your ancestors’ records free at 1940census.archives.gov. According to the National Archives announcement, no other website will host the 1940 census data on its April 2 release date. Shortly after, though, you’ll also be able to view records free on Ancestry.com.
The National Archives and the US Census Bureau also are starting a 40 Days to the ’40 Census campaign. You can follow updates on Twitter (the hashtag is #1940Census), Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, YouTube, and the blogs NARAtions and Prologue: Pieces of History.

read on

Anglican Church of Stanbridge East

Missisquoi Museum - Cornell mill

Missisquoi Museum is a heritage site comprised of three different buildings. The main site known as the Cornell Mill was built as a grist mill by American Zebulon Cornell in 1830.

Museum : http://www.museemissisquoi.ca/

Old Cemetery Stanbridge East

Cowansville townhall

Stanbridge Temperance Society 1831

stanbridgetemperanceSoc

United Church Stanbridge East

St. James Church

Stanbridge 1801 Land Grant

Stanbridge 1801 Land Grant by Nancy

Listing of Missisquoi Churches

Protestant Missisquoi

History of the Eastern Townships province of Quebec

History of the Eastern Townships

Mapledale Morgan's Corner Cemetery burials

Mapledale Morgan's Corner

Canada Census returns catalogue

Catalogue of Canadian Censu... by on Scribd

Winter in Frelighsburg

Stanbridge Station photo

Frelighsburg / Dunham area photo

Stanbridge Cemetery

1st and 2nd Report Missisquoi Historical Society

1st report of Missisquoi historical

2nd Report

2nd Report Miss Co Hist Soc

Contributions to the history of the Eastern Townships

Contributions History Eastern Townships

Ira Davis Land title Stanbridge East

Davis Land Title Stanbridge by Nancy

The Old Academy Stanbridge East

American House Hotel Stanbridge photo 1921

1st Report Missisquoi Historical Society

1st Report Missiquoi Historical Society

Map of Missiquoi

Stanbridge East Methodist Church

Stanbridge East's part in the rebellion

Eastern Township Driving map

easterndrivingmap(2)

Bedford Newspaper tidbits

Bedford News Tidbits

History of Eastern Townships- Stanbridge

History of Eastern Townships- Stanbridge

1858 Directory Stanbridge East

Leggat , Hall and McNamara families of Cowansville

Leggat Hall Mcnamara Cowansville by Nancy

Missisquoi census map

Cowansville houses

Cowansville Houses by cunningb

Baker family of Stanbridge

Vaughn cemetery photos

Alphabetical Index : of the names of the Grantees of Lands Granted by the Crown in the Province of Quebec from 1763 to the 31st of December 1890

Alphabetical Index : of the names of the Grantees of Lands Granted by the Crown in the Province of Quebec from 1763 to the 31st of December 1890

Search list here 

Field book 1790 Seigneury de Noyan

Field book 1790  Seigneury de Noyan

Field book 1790 Seigneury de Noyan - thanks to Douglas Macfie ( Field book 1790 Seigneury de Noyan opens excel doc.)

Unknown photographs of Gough family to Missisquoi Museum

Unknown photographs donated by Gough family to Missisquoi Museum ( index mostly photographer names ) - thanks to Bev Wilkin

3. taken by L.E. Desmarais & Cie ontreal
4. taken by G.C. Arless Montreal
12. no name. Photographer - Woodside 65 Merrimack St. Lowell Mass.
13. No name. Photographer - L.E. Desmarais & Cie Photo artistes 17 St. Laurent Montreal
14. no name. Photographer - Q. A. Randall Waterloo QC
15. no name (placed in photo album beside image 3) Photographer - Q.A. Randall Waterloo QC
16.no name. Photographer- Lothrop & Cunningham 112 Merrimack Street Lowell Mass
17.no name. Photographer - A.H. Tpettel? 806 Caledonia St. North La Crosse Wisconsin
19. no name. Photographer - F.F. Lampron 29 Central Street Lowell Mass.
20. no name. Photographer - Fortin Bedford QC
21. Yes a name! Phyllis Marion Smith. no photographer name

Lower Canada Land Petitions -Library and Archives Canada

When New France became a British colony in 1763, the land system changed. New lands were now granted as part of townships instead of seigneuries. Many early settlers, both military and civilian, submitted petitions to the Governor to obtain Crown land. The Lower Canada Land Petitions contain petitions for grants or leases of land and other administrative records. This research tool provides access to more than 95,000 references to individuals who lived in present-day Quebec between 1764 and 1841.

Search here : http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/lower-canada/index-e.html



www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

Sutton Mountain and the Missisquoi Valley from hill east of Mansonville village, Québec. 19133

Lower Canada Map

Communities:

Abercorn
Bedford
Brome
Cowansville
Dunham
East Farnham
Farnham
Frelighsburg
Lac-Brome
Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge
Philipsburg
Saint-Armand
Sain
St-Ignace-de-Stanbridge
Saint-Pierre-de-Véronne-à-Pike-River
Sainte-Sabine
Stanbridge East
Sutton

Journal of Edmund Thomas Paterson Durham

Journal of Edmund Thomas Paterson Durham

Alburg-Caldwell Manor 1784-1826 draft by Fay Young

Alburg-Caldwell Manor 1784-1826 draft by Fay Young

History of Eastern Townships by Day 1869

History of Eastern Townships

Map Eastern Townships

Cemetery Names = Noms Cimetieres

NomsCimetieres

St. James Anglican Church, Stanbridge East, Quebec History

   Stanbridge St James by Nancy on Scribd