LANARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER JUNE 1995 - 5 The regular meeting of the Lanark County Genealogical Society was held on Wednesday, June 7, 1995 in the library of Algonquin College, Perth. President Marilyn Snedden opened the business part of the meeting at 8pm, welcomed all members and invited those attending for the first time to introduce themselves and identify the families they are researching. Forty nine members were in attendance. The minutes were approved as printed. Treasurer Helen Gillan reported a bank balance of $2139.09 on May 12, with deposits of $347.00 and expenditures of $162.00 for stamps and QuickPrint and $35.00 for library purchases. 232 newsletters were sent out during the past month. Moved by Helen Gillan and seconded by Rob Allen that the report be accepted as read. Motion passed. The LCGS is indebted to Ed Wilson for indexing and the original printing of Clayton United Cemetery and Pakenham St. Mark's Cemetery, both of which are now available for sale. A letter will be sent out to Ed Wilson thanking him on behalf of the LCGS for his assistance. The financial position of the LCGS is not good if we are to continue to print nine newsletter per year. Discussion ensued as to whether we reduce the number of newsletters or increase the membership fee. The general consensus at the meeting was that we should not reduce the number of newsletters, but rather increase the membership fee. Moved by Mildred Livingston and seconded by Irma Willoughby that a recommendation be forwarded to the annual meeting (Dec 1995) that the annual dues be increased to $12.00. [***ED.NOTE: Please keep this in mind if you are sending in your annual dues for 1996 before the Dec meeting]. There have been numerous requests for a listing of our library holdings. This is a twenty eight page listing, so we will investigate the best way to provide this service. Mildred Livingston advised that she has completed the Index to Belden's Illustrated Atlas for Lanark County 1880, Renfrew County 1881. [***ED.NOTE: Available from Mildred Livingston, St. Lawrence Court, RR #1, Prescott, ON K0E 1T0]. Mrs. Livingston is presently working on the Rideau and Richmond Military which includes some Bay of Quinte and Carleton Place Militia. Louise Hope then gave an illustrated presentation on her research of the Vital Statistics Records of Ontario, which proved to be of great interest. It is always nice to have Louise with us here in Lanark County! **Submitted by Lorne Hunt - Recording Secretary QUERIES Robert Ward, 33662 5th Ave., Mission BC V2V 1W9 McLAREN- I am researching McLAREN's of Lot 1, Conc. 10, Beckwith Twp. I would appreciate any further information on the following family members: Colin McLAREN b.ca.1784 Scotland d.1837 Beckwith Christian McCOUAN b.ca.1784 Scotland d.1859 Beckwith Peter McLAREN b.ca.1812 Scotland d.1858 Beckwith Agnes MORRIS b.1822 Perth, Lanark d. ? Colin McLAREN b.1845 Beckwith d.1901 Carleton Place Isabella McLEAN b.1850 d.1933 Carleton Place John McLAREN b.1847 Beckwith d. ? Christine McLAREN b.1851 Beckwith d.1873 Drummond Robert HUGHES b. ? d. ? Cathrine McLAREN b.1849 Beckwith d.1873 Drummond John HUGHES b. ? d. ? I am also interested in the history of the Perth Military settlement and the allotment of land to settlers. Is there information on the emigration from Scotland in 1822 from the western Perthshire region? ------- Mrs. Alice Carmichael Stevenson, Box 36, Magrath AB ToK 1J0 CALDWELL- CARMICHAEL- I am looking for any information on my great grandparents John and Mary Armstrong CALDWELL, both born in Ireland - Longford, Ireland. Did they have a son, Fraser, before coming to Canada, who died as a tiny infant? Yes, their next son born in Canada was also named Fraser. The other name I am researching is Matthew CARMICHAEL and his wife Jane Caldwell CARMICHAEL of Perth, Ont. Their only son was named Fraser Knox CARMICHAEL who was my father. I would appreciate any information available. ------- Robert A. Campbell, 1875 Lauder Drive, Ottawa ON K2A 1A9 I had several ancestors who came from Scotland to Lanark County in the period c.1816-1822 - 3 CAMPBELLs, a BOWES, a BLAIR, and a FORRESTER. Some are buried in the Prestonvale Cemetery, Drummond Twp., and most of the remainder are in Renfrew Co. ------ Ronald R. Thompson, RR 2, Almonte ON K0A 1A0 McDONALD- McPHAIL- My father was James (Jim) THOMPSON, 1875- 1959, son of John THOMPSON, 1838-1935, and wife, nee Mary Jane BAIN, 1850-1926. Have understood her parents were Daniel BAIN, who died Oct 26, 1862, aged 71, and Mary McPHAIL (both from Argylleshire, Scotland). Tombstones for Daniel and his brother, Duncan, died July 27, 1860, aged 70 years, are conspicuously lined up adjacent to the Auld Kirk, Ramsay, within bounds of the 8th line cemetery along county road #16. The most discouraging part is that there is no record of spouses or children of either brother. The only clue we have is hearsay that the parents died when children were young. Upon reviewing The Lanark Society Settlers / Carol Bennett, the conclusion was that Mary McPHAIL was born perhaps prior to 1820 in Scotland. Another sister of almost contemporary age is mentioned but not named, nor if she reached maturity and if so, marital status. One might venture to guess her name to be Catherine as her mother was Catherine McDONALD and Catherine appears in subsequent generations. In Clayton United Cemetery, there is a James F. ROBERTSON- Margaret WATCHORN- Catherine McPHAIL monument with dates approximately 1841-1927, 1846-1893 and 1861-1920, respectively. James F. was known as "Big" Jim ROBERTSON and he and his 1st wife were parents of Ada, Mrs. James H. REILLY (later Mrs. Dan GUNN); Margaret, Mrs. Robert REID; Mrs. Minnie JENSEN, and others, -- grandparents to Elmyre and the late Harvey REID. Am at a loss to know if the 2nd Mrs. ROBERTSON was of the Blakeny McPHAIL connection. The name, Catherine, is indicative, but if so, the way the dates work out, she would most likely be of a younger generation than my THOMPSON grandmother, Mary Jane BAIN, born 1850. Realizing Grandmother would be only some 12 years of age when her father died and not knowing the date of her mother's demise, I wondered if it were possible the latter may have been interred in the McDonald Cemetery, Ramsay Twp. Names I have heard associated with the BAINs were Donald, brother to my grandmother; Johnie and Howard BAIN, possibly father and son, settled near Prince Albert. Duncan TAYLOR, Malcolm MANLEY, and the PORTERFIELDs probably married Bain girls. My father and his seven siblings also mentioned having McDONALD relatives at Lake Dore, Renfrew Co. Might there be a connection with the Blakeny McDONALDs? ------ Shirley Wright, 146, Hwy 29, RR 1, Frankville ON K0E 1H0 WRIGHT- Does anyone have information on the following people? Died in Lanark, July 6, 1860 at her father's residence, Charlotte Adelia, 3rd daughter of Philomen WRIGHT, aged 24 yrs, 7 months, formerly of Hull. In Lanark Village Cemetery: In memory of John WRIGHT, died Apr 22, 1881 aged 33 yrs., also his brother James, died April 13, 1878, aged 35 yrs., also James WRIGHT Sr., died July 24, 1879, aged 69 yrs. I am also looking for information on my grandmother Rose Joyce WRIGHT, b.ca. 1897, daughter of James B. WRIGHT and Annie DUNN, married on April 30, 1913 to David Henry DESJARDINS. Still looking for information on Emma CRAINE, 1st wife of James WRIGHT and for Robert DUNN, said to have been born in Scotland ca.1827, married Jane SCOBIE, daughter of Alex SCOBIE and Margaret McLELLAN. They lived or bought Lot 19, Con. 8, Lanark Co. Certa Cito's Gedcom Collection Eric Knudsen We have started a collection of gedcoms relating to Lanark County. A gedcom (short for GEnealogy Data COMmunications) is a specially formatted computer file of genealogical data that can be generated by all good genealogy programs (such as PAF, Brother's Keeper, and Roots) for exchanging data - it is very easy to import and export the information. One of the first gedcoms we have received is Anna Joan Buxton's, which contains well documented information on more than 12,000 individuals - this is a very valuable resource for any Ontario researcher. I have extracted a list of surnames mentioned in her gedcom - if you are researching a surname listed below, you should consider downloading the file BUXTON.ZIP from Certa Cito at (613) 264-9093 and (613) 264-8114. If you would like to add your gedcom to our collection, please upload it to Certa Cito. This will encourage the sharing of information between researchers - and it is a lot less work than making photocopies of your records! If you need help in getting your software to generate a gedcom, or you don't have a modem, please contact me at (613) 267-5985 (evenings) and I will try to help. It is easy to control what information goes into your gedcom - if you have notes you don't wish to make public they can be excluded. We are interested in gedcoms that mention people who have any connection with Canada, not just Lanark County. Abbott Abby Abel Abrahams Abrams Abyea Acker Ackerman Ackers Acton Adair Adams Adset Adsit Aharan Aide Ainsley Ainsworth Akers Akey Albright Aldridge Alexander Alford Alhfield Allan Allen Allison Allore Allred Allyn Alquire Altdorf Althouse Althouser Aman Amery Ames Amiot Amon Amy Anderson Andrews Andriessen Angel Angus Anstry Antcliffe Apgar Appleby Arbuckle Archer Arents Argue Armager Armitage Armstrong Arnold Ash Ashbey Ashby Ashfield Ashford Asselstine Asseltine Atkey Atwell Auger Aulthouse Austin Ayer Aylesworth Aylsworth Ayotte Babcock Badgely Badgley Bailey Baker Bakker Baldwin Ball Ballantine Ballard Bancker Banker Bankert Bannon Bardahl Barefoot Barents Barfknecht Barker Barlow Barnard Barnes Barnett Barnhart Barnum Barragher Bartlett Bartley Barton Bartoo Bascom Bateman Bates Bathgate Batten Bauman Baumann Bayes Beaman Bearding Beattie Beauchamp Beauschene Beausoleil Beavis Bebee Beckel Becket Bedford Bedient Bedlake Beeman Bell Bellamy Bellinger Benac Benedict Benn Bennett Benor Benson Bentley Berdon Bernard Bernent Bernier Bernshaw Berry Best Bethoc Bettys Bevin Bidlack Bigg Biggs Bigham Bijsterveld Billen Billing Billings Bingham Bird Birmingham Birney Bishop Black Blackburn Blair Blakely Blanchard Blathewick Blathwick Blessing Bliss Bliven Blodgett Bloford Bloomer Boeckhaut Boeckhout Bogart Bolen Boleyn Bolte Bolton Bongard Bonisteel Bonnell Bonter Boomhour Boone Bordon Bosch Boswell Bourne Bower Bowers Bowine Bowker Bowman Bowne Box Boyd Boyington Boyle Boylston Bozun Brabrook Bracton Bradford Bradley Bradshaw Bradt Brandt Branscombe Branton Bray Breen Brent Bresie Brewer Brewster Brickman Bridger Bridges Briggs Brill Brinckerhoff Brinson Brisco Britton Broadfoot Bronson Brook Brooks Brother Brown Browne Brownjohn Brownson Bruly Brundage Brunk Brunner-Buhr Brunton Bryant Buchanan Buchont Buck Buckley Buffam Bull Bullen Bulpit Bulsen Bulyea Burbank Burdett Burger Burgess Burhans Burk Burkholder Burlingham Burmeister Burnham Burris Burrowes Burt Burton 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Newell Newl Newman Newton Nichol Nichols Nicholson Nickerson Nickson Nightingale Nisbitt Nixon Noad Nobes Noble Norries North Norton Norveis Noxon Nugent Nurse O'brien O'dell O'hara O'neara O'neil O'rourke Oake Oakley Obadiah Cooper. Odare Odell Oderkirk of Offen Ogden Ohmich Old Olde Oley Oliver Olson Oosterhoudt Oravkin Orbok Orr Orser Osborn Osborne Osbourne Osterhout Ostrander Ostrom Ould Outwater Overacker Owens Packer Paddock Page Paine Palen Palmateer Palmer Palmes Palmetier Papen Pardon Parfit Parke Parker Parkin Parlee Parliament Parport Parsons Patman Patrick Patterson Pattison Payson Peace Peake Pearsall Pearsoll Pearson Peck Peele Pegg Pelow Pember Percy Perkins Perlee Perrin Perry Pertski Peters Peterson Pethick Pettefer Pettifer Pettit Pew Phare Clark. 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Sutherland Sutter Suttle Sutton Swabia Swartout Swartz Sweeney Sweet Sweetman Swetman Switzer Sykes Symonds Tabb Taft Talbot Talcott Talmadge Tamblyn Tandy Tannahill Tanner Tapley Tasken Taylor Teal Tedman Telford Telganhoff Templeton Teneyck Terrill Terwilliger Teunis Theidlindis Theunissen Thomas Thompsett Thompson Thomson Thornton Thrasher Throckmorton Thurlow Thyssen Tice Tilden Tillotson Tilney Titus Tivy Todd Tomlin Tomlinson Tompkins Toms Tonilitz Torrance Towar Town Towne Townley Townsend Treadway Tremble Tremeer Trevan Trimble Tripp Trites Trotter Troy Truax Trudeau Truelove Trumble Trumbull Trumpour Truscott Tryon Tucker Tufts Tulloch Tully Turner Tyas Tyler Tyndall Tytsoort Ubelin Ue Uel Underhill Underwood Uniake Unknown Valantine Vallee Van Van Alstine Van Beyningen Van Blaircom Van Blaricom Van Buren Van Cleaf Van Cott Van Dusen Van Duyn Van Duzer Van Dyke Van Garden Van Gelder Van Horn Van Huyse Van Kirk Van Kleek Van Luven Van Naerden Van Ness Van Noortstrand Van Pelt Van Schaick Van Tassel Van Vlack Van Vleckeren Van Vlekkeren Van Volkenburg Van Waert Van Wart Van Wert Van Wie Van Wyck Vanalstyne Vanamburgh Vandenburgh Vanderberg Vanderburgh Vandervoort Vandusen Vantassell Vantine Vanvolkenburg Vardy Varty Vaughan Vaughn Veal Vermilye Verney Verrall Vilett Villers Vincent Vitanyi Voack Von Braunschweig Von Egisheim Voules Waddy Wadenen Wagar Wager Waggoner Waite Waite-? Wake Walker Wallace Walmsley Walrath Walt Walter Walton Wannamaker Ward Warner Wartman Water Waterman Watkinson Watson Watt Wattam Wauchope Way Weaver Webster Weed Weeks Wees Weese Weile Weiser Weiss Welch Weldridge Weller Wellington Wellman Wells Welsman Wemp Wentworth Werring Wescott West Westbrook Westfall Weston Weyser Whalen Wheeler Whipple White Whiteley Whitlock Whitney Whittle Whoose Wickens Wieler Wiggins Wight Wijnhart Wilbur Wilcox Wiley Wilkes Wilkinson Williams Willneff Wilmot Wilson Wilton Wiltshire Wiltsie Windover Windsor Wing Winne Winter Wiseman Wisner Wiss Witter Wodzak Wolcott Wold Wolgraeff Wood Woodbeck Woodcock Woodmansey Woodrow Woods Woodward Woolley Woon Worden Worthen Worthy Wright Wybrow Wychingham Wynn Wynslow Wyser Wysser Yandt Yeomans Yetters York Yorke Youmans Young Youngs Zavitz Zimmer Zywicki ============ NEW LCGS MEMBERS #429 GIBSON, Robert 12740 Legacy Rd., San Diego CA 92131-3512 USA #430 CAMERON, Mrs. Nancy 1 Rogers Rd., Apt 3, Perth ON K7H 1N9 #431 FORD, Shirley O.M. 1903-2008 Fullerton Ave., North Vancouver BC V7P 3G7 #432 DEACHMAN, Jim 479 Cole Ave., Ottawa ON K2A 2B1 #433 McLEAN, Mrs. Norma J. 15 Deanewood Cres., Etobicoke ON M9B 3A9 #434 ANDREWS, Karen Box 38, Sioux Narrows ON P0X 1N0 #435 PARKHURST, Mary-Ellen G Box 137, RR 4, Brighton ON K0K 1H0 ============== E-MAIL ADDRESSES LCGS member Neil A. Armstrong of 779 Sugar Cane Lane, Port Orange FL can be reached via e-mail at these addresses: armstron@db.erau.edu or n.armstrong@genie.geis.com If anyone else has an e-mail address, perhaps we could include them in our future issues. =============== On behalf of the LCGS, we wish to express our condolences to the family of Mrs. Myrtle Wilson of Lanark Lodge, Perth on her recent death. ================ LCGS PUBLICATIONS St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery, Pakenham Township 50 pages+ of headstone recordings and index. Clayton United Cemetery 50 pages+ of cemetery recordings and index. Cost for both publications is $10.00 ($8.00 if published at a meeting). Contact Marion Cavanagh, RR 1, Pakenham ON K0A 2X0 (613) 256-1666. ================= The library collection of the Lanark County Genealogical Society is housed at the Smiths Falls Public Library. Their hours of operation are: Mon - Thurs: 1pm - 5:30pm, 7pm - 9pm Friday: 10am - 5pm Saturday: 10am - 4:30pm Sunday: Closed =============== Please submit all correspondence to: LANARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 512 PERTH ON K7H 3K4 =============== The July meeting of the LCGS will be held on Wednesday, July 5, 1995 at 8pm at the Victoria School Museum, 267 Edmund St., Carleton Place. Our guest speaker will be John Fowler on photograph restoration and conservation. ---- The August meeting of the LCGS will be held on Wednesday, Aug 2, 1995 at 8pm at the Middleville Museum. Claudia Smith of the Middleville Museum Board will give a talk on some of the new displays and will give us a tour of the museum. ---- ***PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL NOT BE ISSUING A NEWSLETTER FOR THE MONTH OF JULY - WE WILL RESUME WITH THE AUGUST ISSUE PRIOR TO THE SEPTEMBER LCGS MEETING. WISHING EVERYONE A SAFE AND HAPPY VACATION! ============= Jean McGill sent along the following article from the Almonte Gazette April 1887: A healthy neighbourhood: Within the compass of a mile on the 9th line of Pakenham reside old settlers whose combined ages total 828 years. Mr. James WADDELL, age 91 (came to Canada c.1832 from Lanarkshire, Scotland). Mr. and Mrs. Walter WOOD, age 87 and 78, respectively, from Lanarkshire. Mr. and Mrs. Alex LINDSAY, age 82 and 80, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. John LINDSAY, also from Lanarkshire, c.1821. Mr. LINDSAY - 86 and his wife - 82. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. CLARK, same age - 82. Came from County Sligo, Ireland in 1832. Mrs. McMUNN from the same county in 1828. She is 78. (Footnote: Mrs. WOOD died before the issue was printed). ============== ADDRESS CORRECTION In the May 1995 issue of the LCGS newsletter, in the article by Charles Dobie, we gave the incorrect address for Anna Buxton. The correct address should read Anna Buxton, 406 -925 Esquimault rd., Victoria BC V9A 3M7. Our apologies for any incovenience! ONTARIO VITAL STATISTICS REGISTRATION In Ontario, registration of births, marriages and deaths with the Registrar General of Ontario commenced July 1, 1869, exactly two years after Confederation. Events were to be registered with a local Registrar within a year. The local Registrar was required to send a copy of registrations to the Registrar General every six months. It is known that many events were not registered in the first years and as late as 1900 probably 10% or more were still not being registered. Registrations were accepted by the local Registrar within the second year after the event. An examination of the district register for York Township, York County indicates that the assessor obtained information about births that had not previously been registered when he was travelling around the township. Don't we wish that more assessors had been so diligent! Many births and some marriages were registered many years after the event and these delayed registrations took a different form and required an affidavit be given by someone knowledgeable about the event. Some of these delayed registrations are among the records transferred to the archives and some are still with the Registrar General's office in Thunder Bay. A few years ago, the Registrar General made the decision to turn some of the early records in his office over to the Archives of Ontario. The Archives made an arrangement with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints (LDS) to microfilm these records and only the microfilm is available to researchers. The microfilm is available at the Archives of Ontario, at your local library through interloan from the Archives of Ontario and through LDS Family History Centres. Microfilm of the indexes is also available at several local libraries who have purchased them. Currently the indexes are available for purchase through the Archives of Ontario. At the present time, births to 1898, marriages to 1913, and deaths to 1923 are available. A further year of records is at the Archives awaiting microfilming later this year. An additional year of records is released annually. The information supplied in the records varies. Over the years the forms used and the questions asked have changed. The answers to the questions asked are sometimes unknown to the informant and sometimes incorrect. My own father's birthdate was incorrect. His father apparently gave his wife's birth date (Feb 14) instead of his son's (Feb 12). In other cases the local registrar did not hear the name correctly. My mother-in-law's name was Mildred Eileen, but the registrar apparently heard Mildred Irene. I have found numerous examples of information which is in the district register which is not found in the provincial register. Did the local register simply not put all the information in the duplicate register or is there another explanation? In one case, in Renfrew, we have the registrar's note in marriage registrations "Rev. Campbell appears to give the mothers' maiden names and I have sometimes included them." How frustrating, since in this case, Rev. Campbell's registers do not appear to have survived. There is probably no way we can determine which information was incorrect because the informant deliberately lied. In the past, genealogists were able to purchase genealogical abstracts of the records. Clerks unfamiliar with older handwriting and local names may have made mistakes in transcribing the information. In one case of which I had personal experience, the clerk copied some of the information from the adjacent column. I puzzled for many years over the fact that my great- great-grandmother had apparently died in Bertie Township, Lincoln Co. when she lived, died according to her newspaper obituary and was buried in the Town of Renfrew, Renfrew Co. Examination of the microfilmed record allowed me to discover that this was indeed an error and how this error was made. We find many examples in the microfilmed records of corrections which were made many years later. BIRTHS The name of the child, the date and place of birth and the names of the parents, as well as the father's rank or occupation was always asked for. If the informant is one of the parents or a close relative then all of this information may be considered primary evidence. That is evidence made at the time of the event by the person(s) directly involved in the event. Additional information that will appear in later years includes the address (1906), the marital status of the parents (1908), the ages and birthplace of parents as well as the number of children born to the mother (1920). From 1908-1934, with the exception of 1920-1925, the date and place of the parents' marriage was asked. From 1908-1915, the names of any former husbands of the wife and date of husband's death if the mother is a widow were also asked. I have found a number of registrations in which a notation has been added "died in Sask 19xx". MARRIAGES Information that has always been asked included the names, parents' names, clergyman and witnesses. Except for the period of 1906-1948, the birthplace of the parties was also asked for. Additional information requested in 1949 includes the birthplace of parents of the parties, the racial origin of the parties and witnesses and the address of the officiating clergyman. Of this information only the names of the parties and witnesses and the date of the marriage are primary information. Information about parents is secondary information. In an era when many married woman were always referred to as Mrs. Doe or when many mothers were unknown to their children because they died during or shortly after childbirth, the first name of the mother may not be known to her own children. In other families this information, although secondary, is very reliable. We must also question whether each of the individuals involved gave the parent information personally, or if one party gave the information for both. Mother's maiden names and parents' birthplaces may be quite suspect in many cases. DEATHS Information that has always been asked includes the name, age and occupation of deceased, date of death, cause of death, duration of the illness and name of physician. Except for the period 1914-1919, the place of birth has been asked for. Additional information and the year first requested includes: permanent residence (1898 excluding 1914-1943), marital status (1906), birth date (1909), birthplace of parents (1909 excluding 1914-1919), the place of burial and relationship of the informant (1920). Information that was once requested but is no longer asked includes: religion (1869-1909), racial origin (1909 excluding 1914-1919 and ending in 1974), length of residence in Ont (1920-1974), duration of employment (1920-1929 and 1944-1974), last and former occupation (1920- 1925). Only the date of death and information about cause certified by the doctor are primary information. In most cases the name of the deceased is very reliable, although it is possible that informants may not know the correct name of those who were known most of their lives by a nickname. My own mother's name is Doris and she signs herself that way on legal documents, but since before her marriage she has been called Sally. Most of her friends and I suspect some of her relatives don't know her real name. Other information about the deceased is also hearsay and information about the deceased's parents can be quite unreliable. I have the death certificates for three brothers and a sister, one of whom is my great- grandfather, all of whom were born, lived and died in that part of Ontario between Pembroke and Belleville. Only one give completely correct information about the parents and it is the only one which does not ask for the parents' birthplaces. My own grandfather's has only one item of the four correct and that is his father's birthplace. The informant could not even give his grandmother's name although she had been living with the family when she died. INDEXES Before you can access the information you will need to consult the indexes. The most readily available indexes are the computer generated one prepared by the Office of the Registrar General. These provide the name, date and place of the event, registration number and year of registration. It is the registration number, together with the year of registration that is the clue needed to find the certificate. If the seven digit number begins with anything other than a 0 it means that the event was registered after the year in which it occurred. The numbering system starts all over again each year. For delayed registrations that start with a "5" or a "9" you will need to know the year of the event to find the certificate. The indexes have been filmed on 16mm microfilm. If your reader does not have expanded magnification, be sure to supply yourself with a magnifying glass. prepared by Louise I Hope for Lanark County Genealogical Society, June 1995 ==============