Today I found Archie and Newton Mackintosh's birth records in Canada's. These are the brothers to Isabella who was mentioned in an earlier post. Newton is my grandfather's father. As usual, the recorders of this information didn't see fit to provide me with all the specific clues I want to trace the family backwards. The nerve! Basically, I didn't expect, but would have liked to have seen a birth place for John Mackintosh listed.
I found Archie fairly easily, but Newton was a bit of a problem. The trick was somewhere along the lines I'd told Ancestry only to display 4 star or better matches and the record was rated with 3 stars. I'd almost missed what I'd done.
There are no startling revelations here. Probably just as well. But, it was nice to make some progress, as I'd spent a few hours earlier today and a few hours in the previous week restarting a database for the family with information properly attributed and documented as best as I can at this point. To clean up past messes where I copied information from websites that I later realized made no sense, but now have no easy way to fix it. If I'd attributed properly, I could have done a search of everything that had a source matching the problem data and cleaned it up that way. Live and learn. It's a little tedious to recreate what has already been done and a little hard to keep track of what I have and haven't done, but the pay off will be there. At least hypothetically.
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