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From: Ron Cox <>
Subject: Re: [Ont] Ontario BMD Database
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:31:11 -0500
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>As one of the Founders of "The Friends of The Archives of Ontario" - I can
>inform you that this idea of indexing birth, marriage and death
>registrations has certainly come up before.
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What is the history of this? I have been trying to understand why, in
the case of the index, we are working from microfilm of a computer
printout rather than from the database directly. Was the data lost?

Ron

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Ron Cox
Burlington, Ontario
Canada

Researching:

BILLINGTON (Cheshire, Tarvin <1847)
BROWN (Lancashire, Haigh/Wigan <1840)
COLBY (Ontario, New Brunswick <1860)
COX (Essex, Hanningfield <1900)
CREASOR (Ontario, Quebec, and East Yorkshire)
DAVENPORT (Cheshire, Tarvin <1848)
ENGLISH (Essex, Hanningfield <1900)
PRINCE (Yorkshire, Leeds <1839)

Family History Data available at

http://www3.sympatico.ca/roncox37/
and
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=roncox37



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