Torrington Needleworks in Bedford

Torrington Needleworks in Bedford, Quebec

Ancestry Genealogical research in Canada Guide

Ancestry Genealogical research in Canada Guide by Nancy

County of Missisquoi and Town of St. Johns directory for 1879

County of Missisquoi and Town of St. Johns directory for 1879

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


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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