April meeting,Weyburn branch, S.G.S.

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Elnora Olan

April meeting,Weyburn branch, S.G.S.

Legg inn av Elnora Olan » 22 apr 2005 05:15:09

Weyburn Branch of S.G.S. held their meeting April 19, 7:00 pm at
the public library. Vice-president Hannah Bell conducted the meeting in the
absecense of Blanche Fleming who has been called to Ontario due to serious
illness in her family. Eight members and one guest attended.
The March report was accepted as sent.
The treasurers report shows $605.92 in the bank account and there
is $15.00 in petty cash.
Old Bus:
1] no one was able to attend the A.G.M. in Saskatoon.
2]S.G.S. hours have changed effective April 1,2005 ....10 am to 4:30 pm.
[see your Bulletin]
3] Marge Thomas is retiring ,effective May 31, 2005.

Correspondence:
News letters from Saskatoon, Biggar, Brandon,Man.,SgS Connection and
SESACRS.
New Bus.
1] We had a query from a lady in Courtenay,B.C. looking for information on
Dr. Brimacombe.I sent her information about him and she has sent $10.00
research fee.
Her genealogy group have indexed B M D,s from local papers and have indexed
4 cemeteries there. She says Quote"if anyone needs a lookup. just let me
know.I have the data on my computer".
She also sent this.......
SMITH, Dorothy, d/o M/M Harold Smith of Weyburn,Sask., married 26 Jun 1954
at Port Neville to Daniel Gibbons.
Argus 30 Jun 1954 page8.
Her name/ address is......
Barbara Page
66 Keeneland Ave.,
Courtenay, B.C. V9N 9C5 barbleepage@shaw.ca

2]SgS connections will be sent by e-mail to each branch with e-mail from now
on.
3]There was information from Verna and Grant Thompson, re a brunch and tour
of 4 heritage homes in Regina, April 24.The proceeds above cost will be
donated to the SHIP project.[Sask. homestead indexing project]
4]Genealogy Workshop in Regina, May 13-14. Ken Aitken will be the
speaker.Register by April 22.See forms sent to you.
5]Municipal Land Grantee Maps: HOME CD
Blanche and Elnora attended the meeting of RM#67, April12,2005, to promote
this project as Weyburn council had not signed up. Each one was given a hand
out with the information on it.....we have not heard from them.
That evening Blanche, Audrey ,Ilene and Elnora visited Kevin Melle and
saw the program.[the map and some of the info. on it] The maps will be
similar to present day RM maps except they will not show the present owners
but the names, dates etc. of the original "Land Grantees". An alphabetical
index of land grantees will be on each map.Costs of the map will be $450 per
RM. This includes compilation of the data, drawing of maps,proofing,etc. as
well 50 copies of your RM. land grantee maps. One free copy of the H.O.M.E.
CD will be included with your map order.
The copyrighted H.O.M.E. compact diskette will contain 400,000 original
land grantees in the province, a series of maps and the date each property
in Sask. was granted. Also included is a publication "Understanding Western
Canada,s Dominion Land Survey System". Cost of additional CD,s will be $14
plus taxes.
6]The PROJECT: work is continuing on the project with several typists now at
work.If you have any pictures of Weyburn, buildings, people etc. that could
be scanned please let us know.
7] Ilene has been doing work on the Weyburn Review past issues; some in the
public library have been damaged and some in Sask. Archives are poor
quality.We have been granted $500 to buy new, improved quality reels to be
held here in our holdings at Weyburn Public Library.
On the advise of D.Ward and Mr. Sheard[archives],1943-1961 and 1980 to
present are not of good quality.
Moved by Shirley Jacob, seconded by Michelle Baer we use the grant money to
purchase new and improved reels of the Weyburn Review for the years
1943-1961.carried.
8] Merv Renz has sent a CD on Forward to Audrey Wilkenson. See Audrey for
details.
Lorna Bossenberry brought some books from Griffin RM office to show what
information might be found in a RM office.
Elnora brought old pictures of relatives in Quebec, Ontario and Ireland.
The May meeting will be at the library.We have some ideas for a
program....you will be notified.
MEETING OVER!

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