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Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Records at Halifax Nova Scotia?
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:09:01 -0300
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There aren't any records of the Canadian war brides transportation
transcribed, which is a problem. I have been trying to get a war bride
database project off the ground, but it will require gov't funding to
transcribe the Canadian Wives Bureau records as they are all on microfilm
and will require hundreds, if not thousands of hours of painstaking work to
transcribe. The records are not in great shape,as you can imagine. They are
like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy but they contain the wife's
maiden name, children's names, address in Britain and or Europe, destination
in Canada, husband's name, his military registration number, sometimes his
parent's names, and the file number of their application to come to Canada
so that is very useful information in trying to reconstitute the past.
The only practical thing I can suggest that will be of use to you in
tracking this person down is to go through the Halifax newspaper of the
period day by day for 1946 and to examine the lists of war brides coming to
Nova Scotia. You can request the microfilm version of the newspaper through
your library. Hopefully, your library has a microfilm reader. If not,
you'll have to go somewhere that does. Put aside a couple of days to do it.
The military kept very good records and the newspapers usually printed war
bride arrivals on the front page. But you say you do not have the soldier's
name. If that's the case, you'll have to manage with her first name, Yvonne,
as they did not use her maiden name in the newspapers because the women were
married. Yvonne would not have been a particularly common name for an
English woman so it would stand out.
Sorry I can't be of more use. If I could get some assistance to get this
immigrant database off the ground, I know 90% of the inquiries I receive
from war bride relatives or children / grandchildren would be immediately
solved through a simple database search. It is very frustrating to know the
information is there - but inaccessible for the most part. Someday it might
happen if I can convince someone with their hands on the purse strings that
it is a worthy project.
Melynda Jarratt
http://www.CanadianWarBrides.com
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From: "Gregory Ade" <>
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Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 9:56 AM
Subject: [WarBrides] Records at Halifax Nova Scotia?
> Hallo everyone, I have joined the list in the hope someone can help. I
> live in Polegate, East Sussex UK and my father had a cousin called Yvonne
> BENNETT. She would be about 80 now. He knew her when she and her family
> lived in North London. My father's name is Geoffrey Grout.
>
> It is understood she married a Canadian soldier either just after or just
> before the WWII ended and the last we knew from relatives in Australia,
was
> that Yvonne had gone to Nova Scotia. We do not know the soldier's name.
>
> I was therefore hoping if someone could please let me know if there are
> records in Halifax N.S for immigrants to Canada in about 1946 and if so,
are
> they available on the web. Also does anyone know of an Yvonne Bennett.
> Thank you.
>
> REgards from
> Jackie Ade
> Polegate East Sussex UK
>
>
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