Notes to self about Pittsburgh Township

I finally got a copy of Tracing your Ancestors in Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Counties by Barbara B. Aitken and H. Dawn Broughton (ISBN 1-55034-007-7) from my public library. I wish I had a copy of this book before we went to Kingston, but now I have more reasons to go back. The book was written in 1987 so I hope the information is still valid.

These are my "notes to self" of additional things I could search for. Comments in parenthesis are for my benefit.

Family Research (page 5-7)

• best general handbook for Ontario genealogical research is Genealogy in Ontario: Searching the Sources by Brenda D. Merriman (look at a copy of this book from the library or amazon.ca)
  

Examples of "Primary Sources" (previous to this I thought a Primary Source was only a life event i.e. birth, marriage, death. Obviously some primary sources are better than others, but I'm glad the list is longer than I thought)

• Birth records (used ancestry.ca for civil birth registrations; Anglican Diocese for earlier christening records)
  
• Marriage records (used ancestry.ca for civil marriage registrations; Anglican Diocese for earlier marriages)
  
• Death records (ancestry.ca again)
  
• Census records (ancestry.ca)
  
• Wills & Probate records (have found some in 2 different indexes; need to figure out how to get a copy of them)
• Land records (ordered LDS film 199690 to get the Instrument for the Concessions & Lots of my ancestors)
  
• Tax assessment records
• Military records (exploring this option; a lot of films to go through from the LAC)
  
• Church records
• Cemetery records (used these)
• Funeral home records
• Burials and transport permits
• Court records

Secondary sources (not acceptable as proof but provide valuable information)

• Bible records
• Obituaries
• Newspaper clippings
• Published family histories
  
• Published county histories (i.e. Lilacs and Limestone)
• Directories
• Personal papers
• Tombstone inscriptions
• Atlases and land ownership maps (1878 Atlas of Frontenac)

REPOSITORIES p. 8-9 (I'm only mentioning the ones that I still need to do)

• Contact the Frontenac County Registry Office for copy of the wills I would like (613-548-3230).
• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston (613-542-2261) for early records of... shipbuilding companies (check here for John Wilmot b. 1790 since he worked in the Kingston dockyard)
• Queen's University Archives Guide (get a copy of this if we ever go back to Kingston)

Find out what a Tweedsmuir history is for Pittsburgh Township?

CHURCH REGISTERS: p. 12

• Free Methodist - Pinegrove Free Methodist, Pinegrove Road, Pittsburgh Township register 1905-1966 (dates are too late for who I'm looking for)
• Methodist - Early Methodist Records 1805-1853, Methodist Episcopal Chruch includeing Smith's Creek, Bay of Quinte & Napanee circuits (looks like can get a copy from the Kingston OGS)
• There are other Methodist Churches listed under the UNITED Church, but the earliest dates are not early enough. There is a guide to the United Church Archives by Neil Semple from the Kingston OGS that might be helpful in determining if I should contact the United Church Archives. The oldest dates for Methodist are from the Sydenham Street Methodist/United Circut Register marriages from 1831-1850 but a church in that location would have been very far away from where my ancestors lived on Concession 1 Lot 11/12 of Pittsburgh Township (I think it would have been almost closer to go to Ganonoque since they didn't have to go to Kingston Mills to get across the Cataraqui River?)

CIVIL REGISTRATIONS

• More notices from Methodist Newspapers 1830-1857 (Graves family? looks like the Kingston OGS has a copy)

CEMETERIES

• Pine Grove, Concession VIII, Lot 33 (I think the Pine Grove church was a Methodist church. Depending on the dates, perhaps the Pine Grove cemetery might have some GRAVES family names).

LAND RECORDS

(I think I have this one finally figured out but if not I will have to get this book out of the library again)

WILLS

• All wills prior to 1940 are at the Archives of Ontario. (how do I order a film from the AO to look at the will???)

MILITARY RECORDS (page 41)

• The key to obtaining information is finding out the regiment or corps to which the man belonged. I need to find a copy of Searching for a Soilder in the British Army or Canadian Militia by John Grenville. There was once a copy at the Kignston OGS.

On page 61 there is a map of Pittsburgh Township

So basically I've got some clues of where to go for probate and military records which after I get my land records sorted out, is all I think I can do at this point.