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