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Have a great day!
Juliana

Canadian Censuses
As a follow-up to the articles on locating church records. If you have Canadian ancestors, remember the 1871 and 1881 censuses (possibly others) include the religion for each individual.

Diana

Editor's Note: From French-Canadian Sources, Chapter 23, Canadian Census Records, by Joyce Soltis Banachowski and Patricia Keeney Geyh, “Many Canadian censuses since 1851 list the religion of the individuals being counted. This information should be extracted most carefully, especially for non-Catholics. Many Protestant groups broke off and formed new branches of the same religion and then at times re-formed to found still a different group. It is necessary to get into the right denomination in order to locate the correct church records.”

Mother's Address Book
After I lost my mother, I took her address book and began to write to family members. I knew about them but never had written to them. They gave me such valuable information that was new to me about people and dates. We also made valuable picture exchanges, and I continued my mother's contact with relatives.

Leona Olson
Minneapolis, MN

Success with the Spouse and Play One Tool Against Another
I was searching for the marriage of my great grandfather and was starting to think he had never married. I was not up against a brick wall but a large mountain. Then I had an idea. Start searching for his spouse. Lo and behold there she was with her husband in tow.

I had been searching for him knowing that his name was spelt one way while in fact it had been spelt another way. When you draw a blank with one descendant remember there was a partner and children who might reveal the person you are looking for.

Another tip--play one tool against another. I searched RootsWeb's FreeBMD (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com) and eight names came up. Taking all the names in turn I entered them in FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org). Here one person showed to be the head of the household and another was listed as his housekeeper. Two years later FreeBMD showed them to be man and wife. You can purchase the National Burial Index (NBI) in the U.K. (A great tool-- www.ffhs.org.uk/General/Projects/NBI.htm).

In the NBI it revealed that the housekeeper died five years later.

Thereby playing one tool against the other gave me much information I was simply overlooking.

I hope these tips help others.

Keith Rowe

Read the Ancestry Daily News
Read your Ancestry Daily News is my quick tip. I've recently been through a huge change at work and wasn't able to read these every day. I'm catching up on 3 months of news and each day I find a link or suggestion that takes me to new places to gather information. I'm relatively new at this type of research and your assistance is much appreciated.

Cindy C.