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From: Connie Murdoch <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Gunn+MacDonald
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:44:28 -0500
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If you go to the Ontario Genealogical Society website, there should be a
member contact for the Kingston/Waterloo Chapter(s) in that area that you
can contact that will be able to get you the full details of what's on the
gravestone. When I emailed for the info I needed, I got an answer right away
because that member had the book in her home - she happened to be the
chapter secretary at the time, but if you email the right person, they
should be able to get you the info without much delay. Then I got a hardcopy
in the mail later. I think they charged me something like $3-5 to look up
the info and mail it to me. The info includes a diagram of the cemetary with
the plot marked should you ever want to confirm it for yourself. Also, if
you go in person to a specific cemetery, they will have more info on file
than what is on the gravestone and if it's a genealogical inquiry they can
give you quite a bit of info. I think there's a certain number of years that
have to have passed in order for it to be considered genealogical research
and the privacy laws are less stringent for things that happened over 50 or
100 years ago.
I need to get back to working on the family tree. So many years have passed
and I've forgotten where I left off so I need to start digging again.


----- Original Message -----
> Hi Freda & Connie:
> OCFA was the first site I checked this evening. I found a Thomas Murray
> MacDonald (Kingston twp cemetery) and a Jean A. MacDonald (Waterloo twp
> cemetery) but, of course, the OCFA site doesn't have dates so I have been
> trying to find obits for them for confirmation as well as names of
> descendant survivors. I also have a few more websites that have photos of
> some Ontario gravestones but I haven't checked them all out yet. My
> computer is old and tired (like me) with a very small memory span (again
> like me - smile) so it sometimes takes forever waiting for a "page" to
> turn -- sometimes it seems like watching paint dry.
> I'm so sorry you are going to miss your parents this Christmas. It just
> won't be the same without them will it. I understand how you are feeling
> now cause I lost both my parents years ago and I vividly remember the
> first
> few Christmases, Mother's Days, Father's Days, etc. without them. I'm
> glad
> you have a lot of happy memories................regards.............Sal
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Connie Murdoch" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 8:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Gunn+MacDonald
>
>
>> If they are buried in Ontario, there is also the OCFA or the ontario
>> Cemetery Finding Aid that lists (or will when it is complete) all the
> marked
>> graves in all the cemeteries within Ontario.
>>
>> http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/homepage.html
>>
>> You can search the names, and then write to the closest Ontario Genealogy
>> Society group and they will send you the full transcription from the
>> gravestone with whatever info is on the stones. I worked on this project
>> with my Dad for a couple of summers on hot summer evenings walking
>> through
>> the stones and writing down every word, letter design on tehm, and
>> really
>> enjoyed it. He had a good sense of humour about the whole topic and quite
>> enjoyed our visits there and teased me about how "you'd better like it
> here,
>> because you'll spend more time here than you ever will any other place".
> And
>> that's where both my Mom and DAd are this year. For the first Christmas
> Eve
>> ever, there will be no Nanny and Papa's to go to. I'm heartbroken.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Hi Freda:
>> > The extra info you posted is helpful. I also live in Ontario so I will
>> > see
>> > if I can find obituaries for them if they are deceased. If I can find
>> > obits, there should be locations where they died and also names of
> family
>> > of
>> > the deceased(s). Don't get too excited yet but I will see if I can
>> > find
>> > something for you this evening (it's approx 5pm here where I live in
>> > Canada)
>> > .....................Sal
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Freda Summerfield" <>
>> > To: <>
>> > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:28 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Gunn+MacDonald
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi Sal, Thank you for your reply and all those good ideas. Jean
> Adelaide
>> >> Gunn married Thomas Murray Mac Donald in Edinburgh in 1941. His home
> was
>> >> given as Goderich, Ontario.
>> >>
>> >> Her Aunt's will of 1954 gives their address as 255 Mart Circle, Alvis
>> >> Heights Ottawa.
>> >>
>> >> I don't think they would be there now as they would be nearly ninety.
>> >> I
>> >> would love to find them or their descendants as our mothers were first
>> >> cousins.
>> >>
>> >> Best wishes Freda Summerfield
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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