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From: Nicholette Hart <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT UK genealogy question, as long as we are chatting a bit...
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:53:58 +1300


Civil registration began in 1837 in England. Our FHCs and major libraries
have copies of the indexes, commonly referred to still at the St Caths
indexes here, even if they have shifted.

Nikki

-----Original Message-----
From:Nancy Fraser [SMTP:]
Sent:Saturday, 1 March 2003 11:43 p.m.
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Subject:[TMG] OT UK genealogy question, as long as we are chatting a
bit...

Not totally OT--I want to enter my ggf's birthplace into TMG! He was
born in "England" in 1840 +/- 2 years and emigrated to Canada around
1865 apparently on his own. Exhaustive interviewing of relatives and
searching for obits and the like have been fruitless, aside from an
elderly aunt recalling she was told he had a "Cockney" accent, but I
question whether anyone would have been able to judge that accurately.
We have a 400 year old book he brought over with him which is signed by
a relative and followed by an address which is unreadable (but almost
almost legible) due to water damage. It has other signatures but the
only readable place is dated 1699. He does not have a very distinctive
name. Any hope of finding him "over there"? I have tried chasing leads
from the IGI without any success.
Nancy Fraser
On-call tonight in Yellowknife


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