Hi, I recently came into possession of an old book of personal stories of the pioneers of the Weyburn area from the nineteen hundreds. The areas included are,Halbrite, Griffin, Regina, Huntoon, and Innes.
There are many names in it, but if you would like me to look up a name for you, I would be happy to do so.
Best, Denice

Was hoping you could look up some names in the book as follows: Not sure you will find them since they worked about 1910-1911 in the McTaggart and Yellow Grass areas near Regina.

Dankert, John (Jan) and Martha (Maartje)
de Vries, Sidney (Sijste)
Bierma (surname), don't know first name
Frarers Jim
Wilson, Ben and Daisy (Taylor)

Thank you so much

I was wondering if the last name of Waddell might be in the book. My husband's grandmother was from Weyburn and her family owned a large farm in the area. Please let me know if you have anything on this family name.
Thank you,
Sharon

1911 census, Regina,Dist. 85, page 13, Tship 8, ranges 9 to 15 (Weyburn area) John, head born Feb, 1864.. Mary, wife born June 1867.. William, son born Oct 1888.. John, son born April 1894.. Robert, son born Jan 1901.. Elisabeth, dau. born April 1890.. Margaret, dau. born June 1892.. Mable, dau. born June 1897.. Phobe, dau. born Nov 1898.. Census link is http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/index.html Butch

Thank you for replying so quickly to my post.
Sharon

This is a link to a site with oodles of history books. When you open it do a search using Waddel Weyburn and 11 books will show up. I then did a Waddell search in each book after opening to get more hits. Without Weyburn as a keyword 347 books showed up and you can refine your search using other keywords. http://www.ourroots.ca/e/ Happy hunting Butch

This is the Sask. cemetery site. Do a Waddell search,, it shows John and Mary in Weyburn cemetery, but more in other ones. http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansacem/index.html Also, there are more great links at the top of the page. Butch

Yes I would be grateful for any information you could give me on the Tracy (Tracey) family from Minnesotta I believe 3 brothers, Thomas, Paul and Hugh along with their sister Kate migrated to Canada in the early 1900's. any information you could share or direct me to, I would be ever so grateful. Bernice

Hi Bernice.. In the homestead records Paul Tracey is on the NW 1/4 of sec 24, Township 8, Range 12, West of the 2nd meredian. Catherine on Ne of 30, T 8, R 12, W2, Hugh on NE 32, T 8, R 12, W2. Thats near Griffin, just east of Weyburn. The Griffin history books are on line. This is a link http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=2726 Paul is on page 254, Hugh on 255, but do an in volume search for more pages of info. This is a link to another Griffin book, but not much info http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=2725 I'll see what else I can dig up. Butch

Butch, Thank You soooo much. This is definatly my ancestors.Paul is my Grandmothers brother, but the dates seem to put Hugh and Kay as a nephew and his wife. Any other suggestions for finding family members in the Saskatchewan area. Again thanks. Bernice