ARTICLE - Additions to Online Ontario Marriage Records. By J. Brian Gilchrist

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Additions to Online Ontario Marriage Records
Article Published 11 October, 2007
By J. Brian Gilchrist gilchrists@idirect.com

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For those of you good folk using the Ontario [Canada] birth records online from Ancestry please note an important change you will see when you view the actual images. I fully expect many brick walls will be broken down! My comments are nothing new for those of us who have had the ability to use the microfilms for the last few months.

Beginning in 1908 new questions were asked on birth registrations which have major genealogical implications.

Are the parents married?
Where were the parents married?
When were the parents married?
If she (the mother) has been married more than once, give names of former husband or husbands;
Is she (the mother) single or a widow?
If a widow, state name, occupation & date of husband's death.

Mind you some of the answers given, if the response was indeed filled in at all, may surprise you. Indeed some answers seem to be fabricated due to situations.

For example, on a 1908 birth registration, the marriage of the parents is recorded to have taken place in 1901 in x location. This was still many years after the couple had been having children (since the 1890's). There is no civil marriage registration recorded for any year for this couple, and I can not find it in the local church records (which are seemingly complete). There is no newspaper announcement in any of the local papers. (Current conclusion: Living together - even though all other records show them to be husband and wife: census, land registry documents, will, tombstone).

Just though I should pass these details along for your benefit and use.

Cheers!

J. Brian Gilchrist,
Box 74503, 270 The Kingsway
ETOBICOKE, ON M9A 5E2
gilchrists@idirect.com
1966 - 2007: 41 years of research and educating genealogists.

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