The McGregor & Mills Families

OVER 10,000

A big welcome to a distant cousin, Amber Lawrence, descendant from the Mills-Jervah's who started into genealogy after visiting our website, and now has a website of her own. Link below Lawrence-Lafond.

Since the last update we have done some work on the Stonehouse Family as well as the ancestor's of Irene Shirley Mason, which was contributed by her son Peter Morrison, and a lot of other ... too much to remember, or list.

If you are considering upgrading to Windows 7, you should be aware that "Family History Resource Viewer 4.0" from the Mormon Church, which is used to view several Census Collections, such as 1881 Canada, 1881 GB and 1880 US, does not work on Windows or Vista 64 bit machines. While most other companies are trying to sort out compatability issues, there appears that none are in the immediate future for this program.

Jo & I got a book from Tara for Christmas, it's "Arcola-Kisbey Golden Heritage" "Mountain Hills to Prairie Flats". In there are reference to several Scarrow families who pioneered that area of Saskatchewan. The Scarrow's are related to Jo-Anne thru the McKee's, and her maternal grandfather was a McKee. Since then we have found a web site with extensive Scarrow research that ties into our tree. I'll put a link below.

We were contacted by a genealogist that was puzzled over a James King b. c1844 in our tree, the son of Robert King. Our James King shows in the Census of 1861 & 1871, after which we cannot find him. Here's the weird part, another James King, son of Robert King b 1845 shows up and moves into Kepple Township, and had been previously assumed to be the same. We have proof of where the second James King fits in and have removed him and his family from our tree.

Are you interested in dabbling in genealogy... like to try out a free genealogy program, then click on the RootsMagic Essentials 4 link at the bottom of the page. Enjoy.

Now for the mind numbing stuff I put at the bottom of the page: The cleanup and housekeeping that needs to be done, is being done again. This has resulted from the merger of data from other genealogists that, although compatible, sometimes results in a lot of duplicate data, as we had both entered data differently and the program could not merge everything. This results in duplicates in names, events, notes, etc..... I hope you get the picture.

All women are listed with their "Maiden Name". Where a maiden name is not known for a married woman, I use *Spouse* behind the husband's surname. You will notice many changes in the Surname List on this website. Where we do not know a Husband's Surname, I will use the wife's surname followed by *Spouse*. You will also see *Child*, *Mother*, etc. where a surname isn't known. ie: Mrs Smith's maiden name is not known, so we will display her as Smith *Spouse*.

Given names are shown as: Margaret "Jo-Anne" McGregor, where Jo-Anne is the "common" given name; and a (nickname) is shown as: David (Knobby) Mills.

We have several emails that require answers and I will get to them in due time. I hope you understand the magnitude of this project and my poor typing abilities.

While we welcome the contacts, we also have a need to know who we are communicating with. That is why we ask for names, addresses and phone numbers. Our asking for your name, address & phone number is no less than what I provide on the bottom of this page. If you have concerns and would like a phone call from us, we have unlimited (Canada & US) long-distance.

There is only "ONE" fact for individuals in genealogy software that is used to link 2 people together, that being the "Marriage Fact". The Marriage Fact has to cover marriages, common law relationships, and to show parents of a child even if no marriage has taken place. If a person is showing with more than one spouse, but no divorce, it likely indicates that one was common-law or no divorce record for a marriage is know by us.

Where a child has resulted from a relationship, the father, if known will be listed as a spouse to the mother, even though denial of a relationship existed. To be fair to the child, the mother & father have to be shown, and the marriage fact is the only way to do that. The software, although extremely flexible, does have limitations.

If you are wanting to submit info on your family, there is a "Family Group Sheet" on the below links, that will make it easier to see what info we are looking for and to fill in the blanks, as none of us has all the data at our fingertips. While we request dates and places for all of lifes major events, rest assured that we do not post any of this info on this website for living people.

We are looking for copies of old family photo's. If you have one and can identify those in the photo, we would like to have a copy. We can post photo's of family members who have passed. The database in our Rootsm\Magic has well over 1000 photos, mostly of documents and records which do not show on the website.

Till next update..... Cheers Dave & Jo

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