Good Advice from Wanda. There are a number of published books obtainable
in public libraries on searching Scottish roots and links to Scottish
researchers. I am surprised that we have a local Sinclair tracing
Ontario roots. Well done. Neil Toronto On. (if replying email address
direct)
Wanda Sinclair wrote:
> TO: Cameron Sinclair
>
> Start with what you know to the unknown.
>
> It others words:
>
> Talk to your oldest relatives;
>
> Look for family documents: bibles, marriage or birth
> certificates,
> pictures
>
> If your SINCLAIR resided in Ontario:
>
> The early Ontario Vital Statistics (Births: 1869-1900; Marriages:
>
> 1869-1914; Deaths: 1869-1925) are on microfilms at the Ontario
> Archives (in Toronto) or at any Mormon Branch Family History
> Library.
>
> The following Census are on microfilms at the Ontario Archives;
> the
> Canadiana Room, North York Public Library; or can be
> inter-library
> loan from the National Library in Ottawa: 1851, 1861, 1871
> (Indexed
> for Ontario), 1881, 1891, & 1901 (gives date of birth).
>
>
> Also if you give me a complete data on your SINCLAIR, I will see
> what
> I can do, because I have collected many SINCLAIR families listed
> in
> Ontario (have been doing genealogy for the last 19 years).
>
> WANDA SINCLAIR
> Rexdale, Ontario
>
>
>
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> Subject: Related?
> Author: csinclai@uoguelph.ca at INTERNET
> Date: 1/12/98 10:09 PM
>
> Hello fellow Sinclair's.
>
> My name is Cameron Sinclair, an Environmental Science student at
> the
> University of Guelph (Canada). I am beginning a foggy search on the
> ancestral
> backgrounds of my particular line of Sinclair's. All of which I have
> found out
> is my grandfathers name, Raymond Donald Sinclair, a Canadian who I can
> only
> estimate was born in the late 1800's.
> If anyone can be of some assistance I would be appreciated.
>
> --------------------------------
> ->Cameron Sinclair
> ->csinclai@uoguelph.ca
>
> "In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and
> outnumbered,
> charged the fields of Bannockburn. The fought like warrior poets.
> They fought
> like Scotsmen. And won their freedom."