Sources

I decided that many people would like to see a listing of sources that I use, or have used to track where the family has been over the years. Many of the sources are available for free online, the hard part is finding the information, and I have spent hundreds of hours searching for it. I shudder to think what it would have been like to find this information before the Internet.

I will for the most part not upload documents or files if they are online, but I will provide links to them, or the sites they can be found on. Links to external sites will open in a new tab/window.

The Internet Archive All items listed here are out of copyright and freely available for download

  • Biography
    • Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York, Ontario 1907
    • The Municipality of Toronto, A History 1923
    • Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota 1900
    • Industrial Chicago v.1 1891
  • Directories
    • The Canada Directory for 1857-58
    • Directory and Gazeteer of Devon 1878
    • Toronto City Directory 1908
    • Toronto City Directory 1912
    • Toronto City Directory 1914
    • Toronto City Directory 1921
  • Register of Graduates U of T 1920
  • The Brewster Genealogy v2
  • Toronto Mercantile Register 1903
  • Toronto Normal School Jubilee Celebrations 1898
  • 48th Report of the Upper Canada Bible Society 1888, and various other editions of the Report
  • List of Residents of Boston 1947, plus many other years
  • Barnstaple Parish Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1538-1812
  • History of the County of Middlesex, Canada 1889 (note the name here is Hall, they dropped the "s")
  • The Methodist Churches of Toronto 1899

Internet Resources

  • Bibliothèque nationale du Québec - Lovell's Montreal Directories, various years. The site is french, the directories are mostly in english.
  • Google Books
  • Google News Archive
  • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
    • Beloit City Directory, various years

Files (available on request)

  • Dolton Parish Register Deaths 1837-1896, an extraction of the records, if you created it let me know
  • St Giles-in-the-Wood Churchyard, Record of Gravestones and Memorials