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From: Peter & Adeline Sanoy <>
Subject: [Can-SK] Re: Index to Saskatchewan District 16 Subdistrict 6
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 13:19:21 -0600
References: <006501c2ca1b$e42123a0$8c93a58e@BeverleyGutenberg>


Bev,

As I said in my email to you last evening.....thank you. I really appreciate
what
you (and many others) have done. The time and effort you selflessly put into
the project is appreciated.

adeline

Beverley Gutenberg wrote:

> Yesterday I posted a notice that I had transcribed the above section of the
> newly released 1906 Census. I was just posting the notice because I realized
> that others were having difficulty accessing the site on the National Archives
> site. I didn't have difficulties and I wanted to help. The site where it is
> posted is not mine but that of the Alberta Family History Society. I have no
> control over the layout of said site, (nor do I want to). I received private
> email criticizing the layout and telling me that I should include everything
> that was listed on the Census. I personally did that and I repeat that I have
> no control over what is posted. What the transcription is is merely an aid to
> your research and one needs always to go back to the orginal document. The
> pages are listed along with the line numbers. That makes your searching a bit
> easier. That was my intent. I cannot do your research for you. It would spoil
> your fun (and I might be expensive.) Do you ever look at an index and say you
> have read the book? I remember a few years back a researcher named Rosanne
> Moos created a wonderful Saskatchewan site that had the names of the local
> history books, funeral homes in Saskatchewan, etc. etc. It was a genealogists
> dream site but people were continually asking her to do research, criticizing
> her site and spamming her. She was most hurt and pulled her site off the
> Internet. We were the losers. I know how she felt. The area I transcribed is
> the area around Tramping Lake including the future communities of Revenue,
> Salvador, Broadacres and Scott BUT these communities did not exist at that
> time. Settlement did not begin until late 1905 and 1906. There were only
> homesteaders. They had to go to Battleford for their mail. Tramping Lake is
> the geographical centre of St. Joseph's Colony. I do not know the land
> locations for the communities but I know the land locations for my own family
> members. I could have stopped looking after I found my families and forgot
> about the transcription but I wanted to see if everyone reported as coming the
> the Tramping Lake area did indeed come. I did not write the explanation for
> the colony because I wanted to begin another section. The date of the census
> was 24 June 1906, transcription was done in July (9). There are mistakes and
> it is a case of "Buyer Beware". The names are written as I figured them out.
> You could check them against the Dominion Land Grants as well as the orginal
> census documents on the National Archives site. I have with that particular
> section and found the census taker to be extremely creative in his spelling.
> He also was very phonetic: "Theodore" was written "Teodor" and "Agatha" was
> "Agata" when recording the information from German speaking individuals.
> Remember the prerequisite for the job was not to be educated but to have a
> buggy and a horse to pull it. I guess there are two sayings I will end with:
> "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" and " A critic is a legless man who
> teaches running" Bev in Saskatoon

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