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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: stonechat on Thursday 22 January 09 22:07 GMT (UK)
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Hi
This is now online (no images) at the LDS Pilot site Recordsearch
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0
Found some of mine already
Just a partial transcript (no occupations, but it's good)
Bob
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Thanks for that !
I've just found some of mine too ! I'll look for more later !
Forgot to ask ... what do you suppose this means ?
Residence: 52, 27, 3, Britannia
They were living in Sask, Battleford
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I have some like that
Not sure what it means
I have two families actually living together in Winnipeg
but their mother Caroline (Emma) Edwards seems absent!
Bob
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Hmm, that's strange cause I was looking at the originals yesterday :-\
Karen
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Residence: 52, 27, 3, Britannia
That I believe refers to either the previous land location they were living and/or the present(picture it the area on graph paper) so the bigwigs could find you you...like a vamped up battleship.. Britannia probably refers to the town or something similiar to where they were living in this case may be BC
Jeff
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Or I think Edmonton or close by ;D :D ;)
Jeff
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When it first came out I was looking at the actual census pages and last night I went on the site and the census pages are gone. you only get a transcription. Wonder if they are having problems. I did manage to find my families on there.
Cheers
Anne
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Collections Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/western-land-grants/index-e.html
If you enter your relatives name you will get the location of their Land Grant and a map - there are some names that have images of documents attached as well.
The numbers in the 1916 census refer to the location of the land.
First number is the township
Second number is the range
Third is the Meridian
I'm not sure what the name refers to - perhaps the nearest town - place where mail might be picked up?
I did have a good site, I thought through Collections Canada, that explained how to use the coordinates to locate land in the western provinces. It had a wonderful interactive map but it has been deleted from my favourites and I can't seem to pull it up from Collections Canada - perhaps they have restructured their site.
Debbie
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When it first came out I was looking at the actual census pages and last night I went on the site and the census pages are gone. you only get a transcription. Wonder if they are having problems. I did manage to find my families on there.
Not only are the images gone but the index page where all the collections are listed now says the 1916 census database has no images. I hope it's temporary too.
Jacquie
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I wonder if it got overloaded? I know it seemed like forever to get the images downloaded :-\
Karen
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I wonder if it got overloaded? I know it seemed like forever to get the images downloaded :-\
I never had a problem with the amount of time to download an image but then I do most of my research during off-peak hours.
Let's keep our fingers crossed (figuratively since it would be hard to type otherwise ;) ) that they will be back.
Jacquie
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I can't help feeling it was some sort of problem - some cheshire records disappeared with tales of legal issues never to come back
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Ancestry.ca will have the 1916 census on their site shortly apparently.
Karen
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I can't help feeling it was some sort of problem - some cheshire records disappeared with tales of legal issues never to come back
There are Cheshire Church of England burial, christening and marriage records and Cheshire Register of Electors records with images at the site now. Were different records taken down? If those are the records you were referring to then there is hope that the images for the 1916 census will be back.
Jacquie
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No the Cheshire records have not come back - LOTS of parish records called undindexed records
Bob
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PS I located the spuses family of one of my lot
They were Icelandic extraction so the names are a little difficult
I was looking for Pauline Johnson (Palina Jonsson) with parents Philip and Thordis
They were transcribed Adolph and Thordis Johnan, Pauline was Bealin.
Bob
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No the Cheshire records have not come back - LOTS of parish records called undindexed records
Bob
The Chelshire Church of England BMD databases are indexed by name.
Jacquie
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Hi
This was another larger database of CHeshire PRs
Absolutely no indexing, you had to wade through the pages, but it was fantastic for a county under-represented in IGI. It was pulled within a week!
Bob
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Forgot to ask ... what do you suppose this means ?
Residence: 52, 27, 3, Britannia
These numbers refer to the land location where they were residing.
Here is a link that describes the system in Saskatchewan. Alberta works the same way as does the part of Manitoba that lies west of the 1st or prime meridian.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/Saskatchewan/homesteadlocation.html
Type at you later...
KDB
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Welcome to RootsChat, Timberhawk ! You'll be a very useful person to have on board, and I hope you'll find RC people useful to you too !
I finally understand the system from that link you gave ! Many thanks.
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That number is a legal land description, used primarily for rural homes. Britannia would probably be the municipality, Saskatchewan is very into the municipalities,, more so that Alberta or anywhere else I am sure.
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Residence: 52, 27, 3, Britannia
That I believe refers to either the previous land location they were living and/or the present(picture it the area on graph paper) so the bigwigs could find you you...like a vamped up battleship.. Britannia probably refers to the town or something similiar to where they were living in this case may be BC
Jeff
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Hi All
I can't seem to find the 1916 Census of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan on the family search pilot site, I am looking for Leslie Artiss and his wife Ann who show up on Ancestry( no worldwide sub) as Artiss Leslie and Artiss Ann.
What am I doing wrong ?
Mike
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Hi
I am trying to use the Record Search and the screen comes up blank, I had this happen before and had to update the browser but can't remember how to do it. Is it my PC or is anyone else experiencing problems with FHS sites
Karen
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Hi Mike
The 1916 Canada Census for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba is only available on Ancestry.
You may want to start a new thread with a look-up request for your family members.
Susan
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Why does the start of this thread say it is available on family search pilot
Thursday 22 January 09 22:07 GMT
"This is now online (no images) at the LDS Pilot site Recordsearch
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0
Found some of mine already
Just a partial transcript (no occupations, but it's good)
Bob "
regards Mike
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Hi Mike
There is a discussion of what happened at the following site:
http://static.automatedgenealogy.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10999
In a nutshell, my understanding is that Ancestry paid for the digitization and owns the rights to publish it.
I have read of other instances where images of parish records, etc. have appeared on the familysearch site for a short period of time and then were removed and have not been put back up. Some lucky researchers were in the right place at the right time to take advantage of it.
If you would like someone to look-up your family on the 1916 Census, I would suggest starting a new thread on the Canada board with the request. The 1916 Census is also available on microfilm from the Library and Archives Canada or at your library if it has Ancestry library edition.
Regards, Susan