Friday, January 30, 2015
Discoveries in the 'Do Over'
What new discoveries have I come unearthed doing research in my 'Do over'?
OurOntario.ca website: In addition to indexing newspapers from Barrie Ontario, there are now digital images of older editions!! And they are continuing to add more. Bonus!! This will save me from spending days at the Barrie Public Library scrolling through microfilm.
So far, I have found the Brentwood's correspondent's entries covering the death and funerals of my great-grandparents: William Daisley Allen (1935) and Mary Jane Woodland (1938). Although their deaths fall out of the range of what Ancestry is able provide, I found the information very beneficial with listing various attendees at the funeral as well as a brief history of the couple during their married life.
I did more searching on that website and found an article covering the 60th anniversary of my great-grandparents. I have copies of photos taken of the couple at that event, but it was a fantastic find to discover that the event had been documented in the newspaper.
Trying to remember to search the site as I deal with each individual in my database - at least the ones that lived in the Barrie area. As I'm still working on my great-grandparents branch, that covers almost everyone!
So far, I have found the 1925 obituary of the first husband of my great-grandparents' eldest granddaughter. I remember that granddaughter and her second husband as they lived in the house on the Allen family farm that my great-grandparents had moved into when they had turned over the family farm to my grandparents.
I have also found the brief marriage announcement of that woman's parents. I already Ancestry's image of the marriage registration for that couple, but the Brentwood news article also gave details of the bridal shower and attendees. And in the same column, I found that my maternal great-grandmother had returned home from visiting family in Toronto and my maternal grandparents had hosted a bridal shower for the school teacher who had been boarding with them. Gotta love small town gossip news.
At this rate, it will take me forever with the 'Do Over'.
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