It's a Small world after all
Want information on Grand Manan genealogy? Go to Alaska.
Ruby M. Cusack
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| Ken Carrico of Alaska has set up a Web site on Grand Manan genealogy. His connection to New Brunswick is through his great-great-grandfather, William Leonard Small, shown above. William was born on Grand Manan, but left at 9 years old. He is shown here with his wife Louisa Adaline McClelland and children (oldest to youngest) Martha, William Jr., Cora and Ernest. |
Cliff and I had been sitting on the front door step for what seemed hours - waiting and waiting! We kept looking up the Deacon's Hill to spot Gramp's car coming down the road. Aunt Sadie had gone to Saint John with him. She promised she would bring us home a really big bag of Dark Harbour Grand Manan dulse from the City Market.
For the past 22 years Ken Carrico in Alaska has also been waiting for something from Grand Manan - not dulse but genealogical information.
He started his genealogy work the old fashioned paper way. Then he purchased his first computer with genealogy software. It changed every thing about the way he did research. It was so much easier to keep track of ancestors and all their descendants.
He found one of his ancestors came from an island called Grand Manan. He then discovered where this island was, and the search was on.
The lack of microfilms for Grand Manan records was very frustrating, but he copied everything he found to build a skeleton of a tree for the Cronk, Griffin, Green, Small and Sprague families.
After getting connected to the internet, he decided to check to see if anything was there on Grand Manan. Although little information was gained, he found Karen Small who lived on the island. She willing shared her information. Ken says this was like hanging a baited hook in front of a fish. He wanted more information.
One day a brilliant idea popped into his head. He decided to create the Grand Manan Island Genealogy site and put his data on the web and set it up as a clearing house for anybody who had Grand Manan ancestors. Once Karen Small saw what he was doing, she jumped in with both feet and started helping to co-ordinate data for the site. As more information was being added on a regular basis, more people started to visit and send their data to be loaded on the site.
The Purpose of the site is to make available the Genealogies of the original settlers and their descendants readily available to those doing family research. Ken says it gives him a great deal of satisfaction to provide information about all of the Grand Manan ancestors and their descendants for absolutely no cost to the person needing it.
The Grand Manan site is growing in leaps and bounds with material being added on a regular basis.
Since creating this site, Ken's Grand Manan ancestral family tree has grown many new branches and leaves. He comments, "The more material you give away the more you get returned." He is anxious to find more information and pictures of his ancestors as well as of other families and their descendants.
The Grand Manan Island Genealogies web site now has the following
sections: Ancestor Photograph page; cemetery records; census records;
family data
files; map of Grand Manan; marriage records; researcher lists and
mailing
list. (To subscribe to the mailing list send the word "subscribe"
(without
the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to
nb-grandmanan-d-request@rootsweb.com).
Ken's possible future goal for the site would be to combine all the data files people have sent into one big data base that shows how everyone links to each other.
If you have any connections to Grand Manan Island, sail into the Grand Manan Island Genealogies Website at http://www.members.tripod.com/KenCarrico
You can reach, Ken Carrico, the Skipper of this site at kencarrico@gci.net.
As the little fishing boats return home to find a safe harbour
so do the descendants of Grand Mananers return - seeking information on
their ancestors.
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Query 98-596
Dorsey - Moran: John Dorsey was
born Jan of 1828 in Co. Clare,
Ireland, and migrated to Canada about 1850. It is believed he
married
after he arrived in Canada to Mary Moran, born Dec. 19, 1826 or 1828 in
Co.
Kildare, Ireland. They had a daughter Margaret, born Nov. 15,
1854
in Canada. They moved to Boston, Mass., sometime after the birth of
Margaret,
but before the birth of Patrick Robert in 1857. After that James
William
and John H., were born. I am looking for any information on them, their
parents,
siblings or anything about them while they were in Canada.
-Joseph C. Dorsey
Query 98-596 - Revised
October 2009