by Marian Press Although I live quite close to the Necropolis Cemetery, I had, until recently, never been inside its gates. During the past months, the shut-in phenomenon induced by the COVID-19 lockdown made a walk through the cemetery seem like a good idea. I was astonished to find very […]
Toronto Necropolis
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by Irena Lewycka Irena Lewycka joined the House of Industry project as a volunteer transcriber in 2018, and recently switched to the role of proof reader. While reviewing the pages of Volume 1, 1855-1859, one entry in January of 1859 caught her attention. 1859 page 249 Case 65 (January 7, […]
Thank you to all the volunteers who found time to work on the Toronto Trust Cemeteries indexing project in 2012. Every name indexed is appreciated and it has been gratifying to see part of our efforts available for researchers. In fact, a few grateful researchers are now volunteers on the […]
We’ve had exciting news from our partners in Salt Lake City today (August 29). Another installment of the index we’ve made with the help of our partners at FamilySearch.org will become live and searchable on FamilySearch.org overnight. (It may take a little longer to update the intro page.) The new […]
As family historians we know that we should look at multiple sources for every fact we add to our tree. Three sources is a good rule of thumb, but “a reasonably exhaustive search” is required by the Genealogical Proof Standard. A place of birth in the Toronto Necropolis burial register […]
by Janice Nelson While transcribing the burial records for the Necropolis Cemetery, I came across an entry that intrigued me. The person buried was “Baroness Olga Heimrod”. She died 23 September 1912 of apoplexy. It’s not everyday that a Baroness dies in Toronto. A little curiosity led me to find […]
by Jane E. MacNamara In the last couple of weeks, indexing volunteers working on the records of the Toronto Necropolis have come across the re-burial in 1911 of remains from a nearly forgotten downtown Toronto cemetery. The small cemetery was located on the north side of Duchess Street (now called […]
by Jane E. MacNamara As we work at transcribing the burial registers of the Toronto Necropolis, it is easy to get caught up in the stories of the people whose demise we are recording. A week or two ago, this entry caught my eye: What took this young Ontario doctor […]