User talk:Glasafor

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Oshawa question [25 March 2015]

Hi Joe

You wrote:

"Hi, thanks for sorting things out for me. I am relatively new to Genealogy and when I saw you were from Ontario it got me interested. I am having a bit of a problem tracing the family of an uncle who emigrated in 1930. He lived in Oshawa and worked for GM in a chrome plating plant. Any advice would be appreciated. Regards Joe--Glasafor 23:12, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind my starting out by quoting you, but this puts your question in front of me as I write.

1930 is a difficult time to start from. I would suggest you start by reading through the "Research Tips" I wrote in WeRelate for the Province of Ontario and Ontario County. These should give you hints as to where to begin.

Ontario "privacy" laws prevent the publication of bmd facts until 75-100 years after the occurence and I don't think the death "barrier" has reached 1940 yet. Newspapers and family memories are the only way to go from there forward. You say he emigrated. Have you found the Immigration and Emigration Lists? Both the Canadian immigration and the UK emigration lists are indexed (to a point).

I don't know how familiar you are with the area, but the province started going through a major local government reorganization in the early 1970s and one of the first things to happen was that Ontario County was swallowed up by Durham County to the east and the whole area became Durham Region. Not only that but the natives can't seem to remember it ever having been Ontario County.

There is a Durham Region Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and I receive their newsletters. If you send me your email address I can send you an electronic copy of their most recent issue. (I'm not sure I know how to set up an equivalent to an attachment in WR User Talk.) The newsletter will give you a list of the current committee and how to access their question box. I have no idea how much they are willing to do for non-members. Check their website for publications, too. (Yes, I do have an interest in Ontario County. My grandfather was born near Port Perry and genealogical curiosity brought me in touch with another huge branch of my family farming in Pickering and Whitby and the places in between.)

Are you a member of Ancestry? You never know what you might find on other people's trees. WR's "must be deceased to be mentioned" rule doesn't apply on Ancestry and some family history researchers have provided far-reaching information.

Now, last night I saw your addition to places in Ayrshire, Scotland, but didn't have time right then to investigate it. I quote "Springside is located in the parish of Dreghorn,Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland." The introduction to Irvine parish states that Dreghorn was a neighbouring parish, not a part of it. Are you sure you have pinpointed Springside accurately? Take a look at Scotland's Places article on Dreghorn and the one on Irvine. Check the details on all the tabs on the right-hand side. If Springside is only small, perhaps you should mention it in the Description Box for your ancestor(s) and leave the parish in the central Place box. The WR rule for the UK is that parishes shouldn't have places inside them, but if the place is big enough it can be discussed inside the county. I have been trying to reduce the number of places all over the UK by bringing them in as redirects to the parishes they are located in. In the 1800s many farms in Scotland were multi-family affairs with a number of individual cottages for labourers and their families within the borders of one farm. They might look like hamlets or villages but they are really just farms. Some of these farms still appear on Ordnance Survey maps today.

You can always expand the story of a community in which your ancestors lived on the Family or Person pages.

Finally, as always when people write, curiosity makes me ask: where are you writing from?

Hope I have been able to help.

Regards, Pat-----Goldenoldie 09:36, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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