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Name: Jodie Venem <alanjodie@q.net> Date: 2009-11-14 Your Hometown North Branch Mn. Comments:
Ermine and Paul Belland had another daughter named Joan Ida Belland. She was born Aug.29 1933. Married Lawrence Joseph McCain and had 7 children. Larry passed on Dec.12 2003 and Joan passed May 6 2009
Name: Mona Price <riluckett@aol.com> Date: 2009-11-07 Your Hometown Nokomis Fl. Comments:
what a nice site. I am researching my late husband's family for our children. He is relatd to the Urquhart family who lived in Barbour Co. Al. The Prices/Corbins moved to Grand Rapids, Mich in the i920's.
Name: Kim Cropley <kim_cropley@transalta.com> Date: 2009-10-18 Your Hometown Warburg AB Comments:
Hi, photos bring back good and sad memories. Was at Rae Ponit on the night of crash. Almost got bumped from my flight to the one that didn't make it to the air strip. Worked with Ross Pennington blasting the rig sumps.
Name: Joe Steinhage <j.steinhage@telus.net> Date: 2009-10-13 Your Hometown Leduc, AB Comments:
Great to see the photo's of the adventureland of my early adulthood. It always amazes me when I can look back on days of gruelling hard work, punctuated by periods of exhausted sleep, with such fondness.
Name: Bruce Butler <Bbbtlr19@AOL.com> Date: 2009-09-21 Your Hometown Innisfil, Ontario Comments:
I enjoyed looking at you web site. Happy to see my grandparents also shown.
Wish it was a bit more complete on them.
Name: Don Priest <priestdon@gmail.com> Date: 2009-08-20 Your Hometown Sunshine Coast, B.C. Comments:
Hi Don,
I have been looking over your oil field website pictures for years. I've also been reading the related posts over the years. I also worked in the high arctic from '72- '75. Then I was around the Inuvik and Tuk area 'til '77
I was one of the medics that came up to Rae Point to help with the PAB recovery. It haunts me to this day. Too many details to describe. Still vivid.
I noticed I was in your gallery of arctic shots, Chapter four. I think the location is Dome Crocker, on Meighan Island. It was as far north as I'd been. I remember the radio shack, the weather sheets and those calls guys would make home through the "Edmonton Operator"!
I also have some pictures I will scan and send you. They are in storage, could be a while.
Thanks very much for putting your site together. Through the posts I was able to find the names of the men who were killed. It's helped me ease some of the pain and remember that beautiful land and wildlife. I used to watch the wolves right out the radio shack windows in chapter 4. Thanks again.
Regards,
Don Priest
Name: Cathy Lumsden Nunnelly <cwn0001@auburn.edu> Date: 2009-07-30 Comments:
I am the daughter of Orville William and Hilma Alsup Lumsden. Dad died on 27 Oct 2006. I have done a bit of genealogy myself. How are we related?
Name: john cromarty <tc2006@shaw.ca> Date: 2009-07-19 Your Hometown edmonton Comments:
hey it was great seeing these pics let's get a reunion a going
Name: Roy Craig <rcraig@live.ca> Date: 2009-06-17 Your Hometown Sylvan Lake Comments:
I'm the son of Barrie Craig he worked their for most of my childhood. He was the Radio operator. He even got me a job there in 1996 for a summer as a labourer while the camp was being torn down. It was one of the most intersting things I have ever done or seen.
It's to bad they shut down. Your pictures were a reminder of what it was like.
Name: Ed Langevin <edandcolette@shaw.ca> Date: 2009-05-22 Your Hometown Edmonton Comments:
Hello Don
Searched Rea Point and there you were.
Great memories. Left the Panarctic world July 87 and then worked as a Pipefitter
around Alberta till last fall when I retired.
Looks like life has been good to you. Thank you for the pictures and memories on your site.
Hope to meet up some day.
Ed
Name: Wanda Corn <walopic@aol.com> Date: 2009-04-26 Your Hometown Burbank, California Comments:
I am the great granddaughter of John A. Arthur 3rd. His mother was Charlotte Ann Smith who married John Arthur Jr in Franklin County , VA. and his aunt was Francis Jane Smith who married Greenberry (GB) Griffith. John 3rd was the founder of Saltillo, Texas and that's where I was born in 1941. I like to check in here once in a while to see if there's anything new since I added my family to the Smith family. Thanks so much for this website.
Name: curtis <curtis@nomaconline.com> Date: 2009-04-08 Your Hometown okla URL of your Homepage www.roughneckcity.com Comments:
Nice!
Name: Larry Dahl <larry@dahl.ca> Date: 2009-04-05 Your Hometown Beaverlodge, Ab Comments:
Hey Don
I was also at Rea Point back then. I was a radio tech. Made it to all the rig sites eventually. I started in 1971 and left a few months after the crash. I first landed at Thor island. Thanks for the pictures and memories.
Name: Jack Eads <jacke@wavecable,com> Date: 2009-04-01 Your Hometown Port Orchard, WA Comments:
I'm looking for Merritt Peck in Illinois and Colorado USA
Name: Marc Roberts <reefer_guy@hotmail.com> Date: 2009-03-27 Your Hometown Camrose, Ab Comments:
I worked for Pan Arctic from 82 to 84. We worked briefly together at 2 locations if my memory serves. It was great to see the pics on your site. Take care.
Name: janet kiernan(nee Calvert) <spudsky@aol.com> Date: 2009-03-14 Your Hometown longridge preston Comments:
Don - Thank-you for giving me your web site it is going to be a lot of help to me in the future and it is really easy to move around it to find out information - regards janet
Name: sharon gallup <grandmasangels6@sasktel.net> Date: 2009-03-05 Your Hometown rosemary, alberta Comments:
good work !!
Name: Dennis Bell <dennis@walescontractors.com> Date: 2009-02-14 Your Hometown Grande Prarie AB. Comments:
Hello Don
Its been many years since we were up in the arctic. Great effort on your part to keep us all informed. I'm still in the const. industry, building roads and leases for the oilfield. Dad passed away in 02. Very special years spent with him working up north. Last week, i also had bad news that Roy Mitchel had passed away in Debolt Ab. Great guy and radio operator Roy. Thanks again Don. Hope all is well with you.
Dennis Bell
Name: Shirley Warawa <sjmac@telusplanet.net> Date: 2009-02-13 Comments:
I am looking for relatives of Fred Warawa and Mary Woytiuk (my grandparents). I am the daughter of Marcel Warawa and Polly Ponich. I was born on July 4th, 1960. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2008, and have agreed to a genetic study with the Uof A hospital in Edmonton. They are looking for a gene that would pre determine if an individual was a candidate for either breast or ovarian cancer. It would help if I could find any cousins, etc who also had cancer, because the cancer rate in the Warawa family is very high. We have already lost quite a few members of the family to cancer, and this study might be able to help us or future generations. If anyone has any information please contact me at sjmac@telusplanet.net. Once the study is in place, all blood relatives will be able to benefit from it.
Thanks in advance
Shirley Warawa
Name: suzanne hodgkinson <hodgkinsonsuzanne@yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2009-01-16 Your Hometown stoke on trent staffordshire england Comments:
My line is connected to the Burrows of Windle St helens Lancashire. My ancestors walked with two small children from Lancashire to Staffordshire around 1870 william Burrows born 1838 son of Joseph Burrows and hannah Myatt his wife Elizabeth Campbell born 1838 daughter of John campbell and Esther Mooreof Marshalls Cross Sutton St Helens . Elizabeths two brothers Henry and James Campbell and families also came to work in Stoke on Trent .Also a nephew Joseph Davenport, they all worked in the pottery industry
Name: Henry fehr JR. <halfpit@mts.net> Date: 2008-11-18 Your Hometown winnipeg Comments:
BOY!!!!!!!
What a great site,memories plus.If I had a scanner I could send you pictures
Of more guys you worked with.Now that I am ready to retire,at a young age of
" 61" I would go back in a minute.
Henry
Name: Ronald J.D. Lackie <rlackie@videotr4on.ca> Date: 2008-11-08 Your Hometown http://jasonlackie.tripod.com URL of your Homepage http://jasonlackie.tripod.com Comments:
My Lackie came from Ireland. My William came to Canada to fight in the war of 1812-14, fought between the British and the Americans. Interesting conflict. Prior to Ireland the Lackie/Lackey came from Scotland as a sect of the MacGregor Clan.
Name: Caroline Clare McKinley <Caroline.C.Bryant@gmail.com> Date: 2008-09-27 Your Hometown York, England Comments:
I'm the daughter of Hilary Grace Bolton and Julian Mary Brookes-Smith (Bolton) is my Grandmother. An interesting site. I have taken the family tree quite away back on Julian's side. If you would like any info let me know!
Name: Hank Holowaychuk <smokylakefire@mcsnet.ca> Date: 2008-09-08 Your Hometown Smoky Lake AlbertaI Comments:
Stumbled upon your pictures of panarctic by accident. Worked on Banks island in 1981 hercing arig in. also worked with some of the crew that perished in the plane crash off Rae Point I was working for Adeco drilling at the time of the crash but got sent to another adeco rig instead of adeco 4 at Rae Point
Name: Thelma Gamblin <thelmagamblin@mcsnet.ca> Date: 2008-08-27 Your Hometown Lac La Biche Comments:
I hope you don't mind if I leave a message on your web site, but this is the only thing that comes up for anyone looking for information on the Panarctic plane crash. I have made a memorial for them at www.findagrave.com - click on searach 25 million grave records, - type in Panarctic Plane Crash Memorial - Canada. You can leave a flower or a note, but you have to sign in first, it's free and it's a reputable website. I am trying to do a personal memorial for each man that died that night as I did for my brother. You can find him by typing in Raymond Gamblin - Canada. If anyone has information about the other men, please contact me.
Thank you.
Thelma Gamblin
Name: Thelma Gamblin <thelmagamblin@mcsnet.ca> Date: 2008-08-26 Your Hometown Lac La Biche Comments:
I very much enjoyed your site. Especially the pictures of Rae Point, my brother was killed in the plane crash in 1974. It's nice to see someone is keeping those memories alive. Thank you.
Name: Tim Hensch <thensch@hotmail.com> Date: 2008-08-01 Your Hometown Stoughton, WI Comments:
I roughnecked on Adeco 4 in the late 1970's. Even made it up to assistant driller but could never really work derrick properly. Spent some time on Canmar Explorer 3. Eventually I became a geologist and spent time directional drilling on the Kulluk.
My wife and I presently live in Stoughtonm Wisconsin. I don't believe many people here have any concept of the great adventures we had up north. My wife is a professor at the University in Madison and I work as a consultant dealing with pharmacy medical insurance issues.
Your website brought back many memories. Thanks.
Tim
Name: virginia l. fitzhugh <vlfitzhugh@yahoo.com> Date: 2008-07-18 Your Hometown augusta ar. URL of your Homepage none Comments:
i am the grand daughter of thomas watson lessley and carolina r. lackey i am tring to trace my lackey line. i have my dads line back to king malcom the canmore of scotland. not much on her except that a holmes [my moms side married a lackey in ireland]so i have a lot of research to do. thanks for letting me look.virginia.
Name: Cassandra D'Artagnan <howl4me@roadrunner.com> Date: 2008-07-12 Your Hometown Joshua Tree, CA Comments:
I am also a Peck Family member. My family is from Burley, Idaho and Salt lake City, Utah. It would be nice to join the two histories. As far as i know, ours has not been put into the computer yet.
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Name: don <don@truber.ca> Date: 2008-06-19 Your Hometown Peachland, BC, Canada URL of your Homepage www.truber.ca Comments:
Just testing. Rootsweb changed the code required for the guestbook.
Name: Debbie Yeung <dyeung@debbieyeung.com> Date: 2008-04-01 Your Hometown Edmonton, Alberta Comments:
Can anyone tell me what happened to Panarctic Oils Ltd.? Does it still exist? Is it still active? Where is it located and who are the people in charge?
Please e-mail me directly if you have news about this. I can't seem to find reference about it after 1986!
Thanks in advance to anyone who would get back to me.
Name: Joan Pontin Adler <jpa@kos.net> Date: 2008-03-19 Your Hometown Consecon, Ontario URL of your Homepage www.joanadler.ca Comments:
..re: Howard Cazaly. I stumbled onto your site by accident, looking up the plane crash which took the life of a very close friend of mine. It is a wonderful site. Now I am hopeful that someone might contact me, if they knew Howard Cazaly, from Thornhill, Ontario. Perhaps someone has pictures of Howie? He used to love to race cars, had an English accent and was a wonderful guy. He was 29 when he died. We sure miss him!
Name: sally walker <sally@wenlock.demon.co.uk> Date: 2008-03-03 Your Hometown England, Cheshire, Northwich Comments:
My Husband is from the Bailiff line, Elizabeth Bailiff married William Leech, her brother Christopher married Mary Wood. Graham is from that line.
Always good to find more family members and to extend the familytree!!!
Good Hunting All
Name: GRANT STORVOLD <storvold1960@hotmail.com> Date: 2008-03-02 Comments:
WELL ,FINDING THIS SITE BROUGHT BACK A LOT .I WAS THERE 79 TO 85 OR ABOUTS,IT WAS A HARD LIFE FOR YOUNG GUYS,BUT THE CAMPS WERE GOOD!WE USE TO HAVE A 16 MILL CAMERA AND BED SHEET AND THATS ENTERTAINMENT.ONE TIME ON CAMERON ISLAND THE BLIZZARDS WERE SO BAD ,WE HAD TO SHOVEL SNOW INTO THE CAMP TO GET OUT,THEN WALK BACKWARDS TO FUEL EQUIPMENT!!I HAVE A LOT OF FOND MEMORIES ,GOOD WORK DON.I WENT UNDER GROUND MINNING AFTER THE ARTIC,BUT THATS ANOTHER STORY.SO HI TO ALL I WORKED WITH UP THERE,I"M NOT GONE YET!!!
Name: Darrel Sterkenburg <dkesterk@telus.net> Date: 2008-02-27 Your Hometown Lloydminster AB Comments:
I can't believe i found something about Rea Point like this on the web. I had the pleasure of working there in the summer of 1980, and the winter of 82-83. too cool thanks for the memories. ds
Name: Barb Phayre <barb.phayre@sympatico.ca> Date: 2008-02-17 Your Hometown Greenbank, ON Comments:
I would like to update some of your information re: the Ginn family. If you contact me @ my e-mail address, I'll send you what I have.
Name: Cal Devitt <calsam33@aol.com> Date: 2008-02-01 Your Hometown Rochester, Michigan Comments:
Hello Don. Saw your message courtesy of Catherine Nelson, who forwarded it. We are cousins, researching our Ginn connections. You have in your list Clarence Ginn who married Amy Dickey. I have some info. about them, including newspaper clippings, including a nice picture, when they celebrated their anniversary. Let me know if this would be of interest, I could mail you a photocopy. Cal
Name: Lynn Branchflower-Saprikin <lynn.saprikin@yahoo.com> Date: 2008-01-29 Your Hometown Calgary, Alberta Comments:
While researching my Hunter Clan I called up on, Esther Maria Hunter, who was married to John Ball [b] 1874 [d]1946 and curiosity got the best of me, so I went into your home page. Guess we are related and are probably 5th or 6th cousins. Hope that you are having better weather than we are right now.
Best regards,
Lynn
Name: Clint Guirr <tbird66@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-11-18 Your Hometown Vancouver Comments:
Hey Don, Chapter 6 on the oilfields doesnt work. Trying to get a look at the statue made and the name plate about the guys on the airplane that crashed. Trying to see my dads name. Thanks..hope all is well...
Clint
Name: Caroline Bryant (McKinley) <Caroline.C.Bryant@gmail.co.uk> Date: 2007-10-31 Your Hometown Helperby, York, England Comments:
I am a descendent of the Smiths of Olrig House. It was fascinating to read the biography by Richard Paxman. My great grandfather was Colin Hector W Brookes-Smith.
Name: Pamela Casey McFarland Willson <jdkc1982@gmail.com> Date: 2007-10-27 Your Hometown Eufaula, OK URL of your Homepage http://www.myspace.com/kookiemo...myspace.com/kookiemomster48 Comments:
On a whim I began searching for an old friend with Google. The name Wesley Bethune showed up as one of the names on your site.
If anyone knows a Wesley Bethune who would be about 50 years old now and was in Oklahoma about 1978/79 I'd love to hear from him.
Life separated us and he was someone that meant a great deal as a friend. I'd like to know what happened to him.
Thanks! BTW Lovely site!
Name: Elissa Taylor <gosplegirl_elissamarie@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-10-12 Comments:
I some how got onto this page of the Lackeys. My grandmother Dorothy Lavern Lackey was born and raised by her dad, and mom which where lackeys. My Great Grandmother Lackey died a couple years after 1990. Are we related? If so I can give you the history from my Grandmother Dorothys side of her story of her family as she remembers. Please email me and let me know
Name: Jo Stracener <ccmaxey1@aol.com> Date: 2007-10-06 Your Hometown Oak Ridge TN Comments:
I am trying to contact John Lackey from chattanooga who was looking for info on Maxwell or Mac Lackey. Email is good if you remove the 1.
Name: Allan Lannon <allan@alannon.freeserve.co.uk> Date: 2007-09-24 Your Hometown Thurso URL of your Homepage www.melville-connections.co.uk Comments:
Enjoyed this site as I have spent many years researching amongst others the Pope families who are connected to the Smiths of Olrig.
Name: Daniel <kimblenz@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-08-31 Your Hometown Christchurch, New Zealand Comments:
I see some of my ancestors here, specifically the Labossiere family. Always interesting to see info in others' trees that matches your own.
Name: Dennis & Diane Allen <allendd@alaska.net> Date: 2007-06-04 Your Hometown Anchorage, Alaska Comments:
Thank-you so much for taking the time to bring our keys to us from Liard Hot Springs Lodge to Anchorage, Alaska. We never expected to see them again and it was a real surprise when you called and said you had a package for us. You are such a gentleman and we enjoyed meeting you and our short visit at Alaska Mountaineering and Diving in Anchorage.
Name: Peter Belland <belland3@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-05-21 Your Hometown Campbell's Bay, Quebec Comments:
Interesting
Name: James L. Ward <altuscon@gmail.com> Date: 2007-05-20 Your Hometown Oxnard, CA URL of your Homepage N/A Comments:
Mr. Smith:
My reaction when I find a portion of my family tree in someone's site is usually one of interest as to what I might discover, but in the case of your database I was shocked to see my mother, father and grand mother and grandfather listed. I am James L. Mundell, son of Earl L. Mundell, Jr, grandson of Earl L. Mundell of Lake Dumphries, Scotland. My father was killed over Cooke's Inlet, Alaska in 1948. My mother, Bette Louise Huffman, was the daughter of Linnaeus Huffman, who must be linked to your family tree through his mother, who was a Lackey. My grandmother, Frances, died before I was born, and since I grew up in California, and my mother's family lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, I really didn't have much contact with family stories about her.
I am the adopted son of William Hamilton Ward, who is my father's cousin. Both my mother and my adopted father are still living. My father was known as "Bud" to friends and family. When he died, he was a captain in the Army Air Corps.
My adopted father is the son of Jasper I Ward and Mary Arnita Caulkins, whose family is from Illinois, and is related to the Ebersole family. She was devorced and remarried to Bernard J Lydick of San Diego, California. When he was growing up, my adopted father was known as Bill Lydick, but he decided not to change his given name, and he became Bill Ward when he entered the US Marines during the War in the Pacific.
I have an uncle, Myron Huffman, who is the son of Linnaeus and Francis Huffman. I have two sisters. There is a mistake on the site, that is probably engendered by my father's date of death. My sister Joanna Louise Clevenger is a Mundell. She has been married twice. She was first married to Gary H. Lackey, which I put down here as shock number one. My niece, Christina Rochelle Lackey was a child of this marriage. She was also married to Stephen Clevenger, of the middle Tennessee Clevengers, but they did not have any children. She is currently single.
My other sister, Carol Ann Call, is married to Richard Call, and she is a Ward. Her husband is a member of the "Savon Drugstore Calls" family. His father founded and ran the business until his death. They have two children, Geoffrey Call and Christopher Call, my nephews.
I have been married to the former Elizabeth Ann Hosta for thirty eight years in October. We have one daughter, Marissa Megan Ward. If you was birth days and years of birth for any or all of this cast of characters, just send me an email, and I'll flesh things out for you. Through my wife, you are also now related to the Senas of Bernillio, New Mexico and the Hostas of Detroit Michigan. She has, I believe, 23 aunts and uncles and at least 100 cousins, so that is a complete research project in and of itself.
Send me an email, if I can be of more help. The Wards and Mundells were Norman families. The de Vard family arrived in Britain before 1066. The Mangevilles were with William's invasion force. In England, the Mangeville family became the Mandevilles (and all the variants). In Scotland
Name: Carl R. Mauck <Bonneyville2000@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-05-18 Your Hometown Bristol Comments:
My family owned the Bonneyville Mills since 1897....It is now a county park. Edward Bonney and Nathan Whipple built the mill in 1837.
Name: Tony Price <tonyprice@tiscali.co.uk> Date: 2007-05-06 Your Hometown Preston Comments:
Hi, Fantastic site, lots of hard work here !
My Mother is Georgina Price (Stephenson) she said it was worth a look, it certainly is.
regards
Tony
Name: claire <clairel5@msn.com> Date: 2007-04-18 Your Hometown Seattle Comments:
Pierriche Parenteau's first wife was NOT Marie Anne Caron. It was Josepht Delorme. He also was born in l817. You've omitted not only his first wife and their children, but the subsequent lines as well.
Name: richard scheffler <offroad1@shaw.ca> Date: 2007-04-14 Your Hometown Edmonton Comments:
Hi Don.
I wanted to compliment you on your website especially the Panarctic pages. My father worked up in the islands as a cook for Dale Payne which was a seismic company. My best friend as a kid was a fellow by the name of Dennis Bell and his dad was Ron Bell. Ron has passed away now but I am sure you knew them. I also had a friend who died in the crash at Rae Point and his name was Willy Hoffman. I found your site by trying to see a list of the casualties but have never been able to find one.
I also worked in Delta on Adeco rig 5 for a short while and in the islands on a Gustavson rig which I can't remember the name of.
Thanks again.. Richard
Name: Kyle Lackey <feedingthechickens@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-04-10 Your Hometown 100 Mile House Comments:
I enjoy the picture i wonder if i have any relations to this one family
Name: Wanda Corn <walopic@aol.com> Date: 2007-02-24 Your Hometown was Sulphur Springs, TX Comments:
I am the great great granddaughter of Charlotte Ann Smith and John A. Arthur Jr. Charlotte's sister Francis married my great great grandfather Greenberry Griffith. They are buried at Old Saltillo Cemetery, Hopkins County Texas. Findagrave.com has the Old Saltillo Cemetery listing and The Arthur Family Cemetery in Franklin County, VA. I now live in Burbank, CA
Name: Cheryl Perrett <cherp@telus.net> Date: 2007-02-23 Your Hometown Westbank, BC, Canada Comments:
Really enjoy the site. Especially the pictures of Christine & Mark's wedding. That was a wonderful day! Thanks for sharing, very interesting family history and stories. All the best, Cheryl :)
Name: Ken Malterer <ponderos@telusplanet.net> Date: 2007-02-17 Your Hometown Ponoka,Ab, Canada Comments:
I work with Ed Tatarnic at Nova Chemicals.He showed me the site and it brought back a lot of rig memories.I started in "the patch" in '79 on the rigs working on Adeco rig #1 and have worked through the entire industry from drilling the holes in the groung to puttin'it in the pipeline to processing it to making it into plastic.Got a kick out of the old equipment and rig trucks-guys were pretty tough back then.Hope anyone I used to work with(Simmon's drilling,Cactus and Esso)would drop a line-see where "old rig pigs" wind up.
Name: Cassandra <cassandrakerridge@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-02-02 Your Hometown Peachland BC Comments:
thanks for the pics and history, was great to see everything and know someone that has been there and not just from a book or a tv program.
Name: Alex McQuaid <afmcquaid@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-01-28 Your Hometown Oakville Ontario Canada URL of your Homepage http://ca.geocities.com/afmcquaid Comments:
Hi Don,
Great site..Looks like we share the much of the same genealogical background.
Regards,
Alex
Name: Carol Rudolph <reindeerlady@comcast.net> Date: 2007-01-27 Your Hometown Mechanicsville, VA Comments:
My grandmother's maiden name was Belland. She was Emily Belland, originally from French Canada, but lived in her youth in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. She died many years ago after living her later years in Costa Mesa, CA where her ashes are buried under a lemon tree. Now my son't middle name is Belland.
Name: Mark Smith <markrachsmith@persona.cal> Date: 2007-01-22 Your Hometown Little Current, ON Comments:
Don
Best genealogy site I've seen. Great job, brother.
Mark & Rachel
Name: Wayne Pohl <wajaah@telusplanet.net> Date: 2007-01-13 Your Hometown Millet AB Comments:
Awesome to come across your good work and the pictures! I always wondered about Rea Point. Brings back some old memories as this was the 1st main civilized place we would fly into and overnight, depending on weather coming in and out from Prince of Wales, Ellef Ringnes, Ellesmere, or wherever.(earlier 70's) Thanks
Name: Dick Cameron <chanter1@telusplanet.net> Date: 2006-12-27 Your Hometown Ponoka, Alberta Comments:
Well done Don Home #403-783-5206 Cell 403-783-0614. Jim Stewart was here visiting today.
Name: Charles Clement <cfvwd@telus.net> Date: 2006-12-26 Your Hometown Calgary, AB Comments:
Great to see somthing about Panarctic Oil.
Name: Lyle The Welder <patnlyle@telus.net> Date: 2006-11-24 Your Hometown Still Red Deer Comments:
This really brings back memories. I don't remember being so good looking. Thanks for the site. It was really nice to see Sam ans Kim agian.
Name: Clint Guirr <tbird66@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-11-21 Your Hometown Edmonton but now on west coast Comments:
Don,
Maybe you remember Paul Guirr? He was my dad, he died in the planecrash in 74, this is the VERY first i have seen of anything of the north as he used to tell me when he wuold get home after a couple weeks away. The wolves, the bears...I was hoping to see some pics of him, perhaps you have some you could email me? As well, Ken Redel was supposed to be on that plane that night, does that name at all ring a bell? My mom used to work as well in Thompson at a place called the "Remakee" do you at all recall that place? Anything you could do to enlighten me i wuold be indebted forever! Thanks so much and please drop me a line when you get the chance!
Sincerely
Clint Guirr
Name: Taziah Lackey <i dont have 1@msn.com> Date: 2006-11-18 Your Hometown Downey,CA Comments:
dear poeple,
i'm a 12 year old girl and i want to know where my family came from and all i know is my grandma is linda lackey and my grandpa died a year after i was born . i was born in dec.3.1993 and my grandpas name is gene lackey
Name: Jason Spates <jspates@cablelan.net> Date: 2006-11-09 Your Hometown Lumby Comments:
Hello,
My father is Dean Spates, and I have heard interesting stories about Rae Point and Dad's experiences in the Arctic all my life. It was really interesting to see all the great pictures of life in those days.
You have a great site here, thanks!
Jason Spates
Name: Bobby Sanders <admin@buttout.ca> Date: 2006-11-04 Your Hometown Brooks Alberta URL of your Homepage http://www.albertaoiljobs.info Comments:
Hey nice site.
Name: Mike Armour <mike.armour@bigfoot.com> Date: 2006-10-16 Your Hometown Thornton, Lancs, UK Comments:
Arrived here via a Google search for my Great Great Grandfather (Alexander Carus JP KSG b.1842) after perusing an old family tree of the Carus family. Have met John Smith (b 1930) a few times (mostly at funerals, rather unfortunately!). Heard a story via my mother (nee Carus) that my G.G. Grandfather, as mayor of Darwen, once jumped out of a window several storeys high to demonstrate the efficacy of a new fire-fighters' safety net. I can't see the Health & Safety crowd allowing such a stunt these days!
Name: wayne beaupre <wcind@kpunet.net> Date: 2006-09-20 Your Hometown ketchikan,alaska Comments:
great pics of the westbourne rig on vessy hamilton..in 1979..i roughnecked on that rig there that summer...thanks for the memory.
Name: Angie <justlittle19@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-09-05 Your Hometown Alberta Comments:
Hey, great work. I really enjoyed takeing a look around.
I did see an error.
I.Parenteau who married Jack McDonald
Their kids names are ok but his name is wrong
Actually his name was Charles (Charlie) he is my G Uncle and is still Living. If you please correct the mistake that would be greatly appreciated.
Name: Mary E Tyson <maryefargo@aol.com> Date: 2006-08-31 Your Hometown Hemet, CA. USA Comments:
Parents of Harriet Louise Weil Anna Elizaabeth Jones and Bernard Weil.
Parents of Wesley Lackey: Eliza Campbell and Andrew Lackey.
My family come from Harriet's line. As far back as 1755 Elijah Adams who was in the Revolutionary War.
I found your site very interesting
Mary.
Name: Janelle Belland <cute_softball_player@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-08-25 Your Hometown Longview, WA Comments:
Very Neat!!
Name: JoAnn Greene <droopy53148@charter.net> Date: 2006-08-17 Your Hometown Morristown, Tennessee, USA Comments:
Just looking at the Lackey Family. I am a descendent of Bennie Elizabeth Lackey she was born at Mt. Sterling, North Carolina. The Lackey Children sure look a lot like your Lackeys I think my GGrandfather's name was Harrison Lackey
Well I have really enjoyed your site. Thank you JoAnn
Name: JoAnn Greene <droopy53148@charter.net> Date: 2006-08-17 Your Hometown Morristown, Tennessee, USA Comments:
Just looking at the Lackey Family. I am a descendent of Bennie Elizabeth Lackey she was born at Mt. Sterling, North Carolina. The Lackey Children sure look a lot like your Lackeys I think my GGrandfather's name was Harrison Lackey
Well I have really enjoyed your site. Thank you JoAnn
Name: JoAnn Greene <droopy53148@charter.net> Date: 2006-08-17 Your Hometown Morristown, Tennessee, USA Comments:
Just looking at the Lackey Family. I am a descendent of Bennie Elizabeth Lackey she was born at Mt. Sterling, North Carolina. The Lackey Children sure look a lot like your Lackeys I think my GGrandfather's name was Harrison Lackey
Well I have really enjoyed your site. Thank you JoAnn
Name: Donna Boyd <sea.surf@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: 2006-08-12 Your Hometown Lakevale, Antigonish County NS Comments:
Very tastefully done, my son is working on a service rig and I find his stories quite interesting, will have to show him this sight. Thank you vey much.
Name: Rae Moleschi <justjeddeye@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-08-01 Your Hometown Prince George, BC Comments:
Interesting to look back on and show my son where I once worked.
Name: Tracy (Dykeman) Brannan <ojaitmt@adelphia.net> Date: 2006-07-09 Your Hometown Stoughton Massachusetts Comments:
My father's Cousin and I have been working on our family Genealogy and Emma dykeman is My Fathers Great GrandFather James Edwin Dykeman. I have found information on Emma Dykeman's family on Colchester county records. I hope all is well for your family.
Sincerely, Tracy
Name: becky smith <bsmith208@comcast.net> Date: 2006-07-02 Your Hometown Frankfort, IN Comments:
My maiden name was Smith and I married a Smith, I am checking your line to see if there are any tie-ins. In-laws seem to be from Virginia and North Carolina, Mine has been very diffcult, I have a Daniel Smith from Ohio, born about 1814, and haven't been able to trace him any futher. Becky Smith
Name: Marvin Peterson <mpeterso@telusplanet.net> Date: 2006-06-12 Your Hometown Airdrie, AB Comments:
Interesting photos - I was a DOT radio operator in Inuvik from 1973-75 so had lots of contact with Panarctic personnel then went back to the Artic as an Twin Otter aircraft engineer (C-GPAO) for Alcal Aviation during the cleanup years from 1989 to 1991 (approximately). If anybody knows where I can get a copy of Quest I would like to buy one.. Thanks.
Name: jesse bowler <jbowler72@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-06-10 Your Hometown weyburn sask Comments:
Very neet pictures of drilling rigs. I am 26 &I work on rigs my self like my late grand father. My dad sells drill bits.you can say its in my blood. The oilfeild will either make you or break you.A person could write a book about wha they have done & where they have been all in the time of chasing a rig.
thanx again Jesse Bowler
Name: David Lackey <lackda@gmail.com> Date: 2006-06-08 Your Hometown Fresno,Ca. URL of your Homepage davelackey.com Comments:
web site under construction.
Name: jessica <jessica_ashbaugh@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-06-08 Your Hometown Brantford URL of your Homepage wat ever Comments:
i didn't find anything i was looking for but kool pics.
Name: Amy Banning Newman <janewman@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-06-06 Your Hometown Burnaby, BC Comments:
I was looking for something on Forest Lawn and found your website – I was surprised to see the name of my friend Donald William Peck listed there. I have visited his grave many times over the years, partly because I lived a block from the cemetery until recently. I consider Donald to be my first sweetheart since we would walk around Douglas Road School at lunchtime holding hands. That’s a big deal when you are 10 years old! He was clever, funny and likeable. I think almost all of our grade 5 classmates attended his funeral. He is not forgotten.
Name: barbara martin <barbmartin9054@sbcglobal.net> Date: 2006-05-19 Your Hometown WEST FRANKFORT,ILLINOIS Comments:
MY FATHER WAS WALTER ROBERT SMIYH , BORN IN JACKSON COUNTY IN 1889.THATS ABOUT ALL I KNOW OF HIM AND I WOULD LIKE TO TRACE HIS FAMILY BACK A FEW GENERATIONS.
Name: wayne sheridan <waynevsheridan@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-05-10 Your Hometown hanna alberta Comments:
looks good
Name: Bev St Sauver <bstsauver@gmail.com> Date: 2006-05-03 Comments:
HEllo there -
I Am happy to find you - and records for Anna Belland (sp Joseph Caplette) I am willing to provide information in exchange for your sources, etc. Impressive web site and very "searchable." THANKS!! Bev
Name: georgina price <georgeen@tiscali.co.uk> Date: 2006-01-19 Your Hometown preston lancashire Comments:
I found the site very interesting,also to find relations that i did not know about.
Name: Cameron Parenteau-Longo <clongo83@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-01-02 Your Hometown Regina, Sk Comments:
It was neat to see the PARENTEAU family up on there. The descendants from Jean Parenteau dit Lafontaine and so on...to where my great great great great great grandfather Joseph Victor Parenteau, born in 1776 Quebec and came to Manitoba and married Suzanne Crie Richard, a Metis woman...and from then on, there are thousands upon thousands of descendants...many of Aborigional blood.
I am hoping to have a PARENTEAU reunion in Summer of 2007 in Winnipeg, Manitoba for the descendants of Pierre Josue Parenteau and Virginie Chartrand, who were married in 1898 in and around Duck Bay, Manitoba.
Sincerely,
Cameron Parenteau-Longo
Name: Cynthia Ann Mixon Beam <redbird44@interlink-cafe.com> Date: 2005-12-31 Your Hometown JonasRidge ,NC Comments:
I really like the way this site is set up. Everything is so easy to find.Good Luck. If I can be of assistance,just e-mail me.
Name: Shelley Antonation <sca41@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-12-26 Your Hometown Brandon, MB Comments:
Thank you so much for your pictures of Rea Point, NWT. My father was Morris Antonation, one of the 32 men killed on October 30, 1974 on the Pan Arctic Electra Crash. In memory of these men who lost their lives. Thanks again.
Name: Kelly Pitt <akpitt@telusplanet.net> Date: 2005-11-25 Your Hometown Calgary Comments:
Cool Brings back a lot of menories
Name: Cam MacDonald <cjmacdonald@sasktel.net> Date: 2005-11-24 Your Hometown Rabbit Lake, SK Comments:
You have some great pictures here. I worked for United Geophysical on Melville and area in 1980 and 81. I'll send some pictures if you want them. ( AS soon as I can find them )
Name: Terry Boos <terryboos@shaw.ca> Date: 2005-11-24 Comments:
Don.
Came across your web site and it scared the crap out me, but had to say hello anyway. Its been awhile. Hope everythings ok in Chase.
Name: Jack Dale <jfdale@iig.com.au> Date: 2005-09-19 Your Hometown Cairns Queensland australia Comments:
Hi, Don, I was a flight engineer on CF-PAB and CF-PAK, the L-188 Lockheed Electras from 1972 to 1974.I worked on the twin otters prior to the Panarctic take-over of the Electras.We must have crossed paths along the way. I moved to Australia in Aug. of 1974 just before the crash of CF-PAB.
Came across your website by a fluke! It is a great reminder of the past.Cheersw, Jack Dale.
Name: Greg Cairns <gbcairns@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-08-13 Your Hometown Cornwall P.E.I Comments:
awsome web pages wicket to see all the old rig equipenmt and the old wells that are probly still used today.Funny that the old service rig looks near the same as the one i spend the winters on out there lol. Awsome page hope that more people would post pics like at
Name: Chris Schindelka <cschindelka@suncor.com> Date: 2005-08-10 Your Hometown Edmonton, Alberta Comments:
It was a great experience from 1975-1978 working with great people at Rea Point. Most of my time was spent working with Dean Spates and crew as fuelman and loader operator. But Don Smith,Ed Bujak,John Mankow and Truls Lund were my foreman also. John Legris and John Murdoch(the other loader operators) took care of this 17 year old kid who didn't know a thing. The pictures bring back good memories of a rough but beautiful land that I miss and would love to see again.
Thanks Don Smith,
Chris Schindelka
Name: Dan faurie <dan.faurie@carrier.utc.com> Date: 2005-07-22 Your Hometown Bordeaux, France Comments:
Don,
I just sent you an email directly but thought I sign your guest book as well. I worked offshore Ellef Ringnes island starting the winter of 1973. Your oilfield pictures bring back a lot of memories, happy ones and also sad ones. I must say that over there, in the Arctic, I have met the best people I will ever meet in my life. Sadly some did not come back. Wonderful web site if you ever close it please contact me I would love to have some of these pictures. If youwant some of of mine please let me klnow. I will have to have them scanned and will be glad to send them to you.
Dan
Name: Denise Lavallee Hoekstra <denise_hoekstra@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-06-15 Your Hometown Ottawa, Ontario Comments:
Hi Don, Some interesting photo's. My dad and my Uncle worked the rigs out of Estevan. My uncle, Buck Dunn, has told me some wild stories about drillers and roughnecks. I like to think that the men were stronger than the steel they were sinking.
Name: Terry Weatherbe <terry.weatherbe@gmail.com> Date: 2005-06-12 Your Hometown Edmonton, Alberta Comments:
What special memories this site brings back! I was medic at Rea Point in 1974 and only through a fluke change of posting did I avoid returning from Calgary on PAB. Instead, I became a part of the official Crash Recovery team the following day. I lost al ot of friends and some former patients on that day and it is something that will stay in my mind forever.Happier times were spent flying out of Rea Point to visit patients in the outer islands, usually with my good friend, Twin Otter pilot Clair Webb. Have lost track of him over the years and would love to find him again. Thanks again for the great memories (and the not so great.)
Name: Captain Retired Bud Husband <jana&bud@telus.net> Date: 2005-05-19 Your Hometown Cobble Hill B.C. Comments:
Flew the Arctic for many years. Military (RCAF), Pacific Western Airlines. Was in and out of Rea Point with DC-4, Herc, Electra, B727 & B737 from 1969 to 1976. Marsh Mariacci was my best friend from 1960 until his death. He was my lead Radio Officer on 407 M/P Sqdn in Comox. I was his flight instructor for pilot training. He was a top notch pilot, as he was in all he undertook. Many memories from the High Arctic Adventures with Pan Arctic and P.W.A.--- What a great team, Too bad it was ended. Bud Husband
Name: CLIFF BECK <eezieryder@cablelan.net> Date: 2005-05-03 Your Hometown AS OF 98 KAMLOOPS BC Comments:
SPENT 14 YEARS IN AND OUT OF THE ARTIC WITH PWA ON DC6 HERC B737 AND B727 OPS. USED TO DO ALL THE INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURES FOR THE ARTIC OPS.
Name: J.E. Smith <jes1811@shaw.ca> Date: 2005-05-03 Your Hometown Nanoose Bay B.C. Comments:
Was in Rae Point when it first stared An Engineer with PWA on Hercs DC4 D6
Electra Saw Rae Point too many Times
Name: Wray Tsuji <wray.tsuji@tsb.gc.ca> Date: 2005-05-03 Your Hometown Edmonton, AB Comments:
Hi Don,
Really enjoying your webpage and the memories. I flew north out of Calgary on International JetAir's (IJA)Electras in 1971 & 1972, and I remember how cold every place was as soon as we stepped out of the plane. I guess that is why I didn't get around to taking any photos during the turnarounds, and why I am enjoying yours. I was also a crew chief at Moore Aviation (which became IJA) in 1967-1968 when we installed the autopilot in CF-PAT, the first autopilot installation in a Twin Otter. I used to work & fly with Dave Hatton, who was the First Officer on PAB when it went through the ice. In fact, his Volvo was parked in my yard in Lethbridge when he went north.
Name: Kimberly Smoker <pumpkin34_84@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-04-17 Your Hometown Nanaimo, BC Comments:
Hello! Just so you know, you have J. K. SWIFT and Sharon being the parents of Luke. So you know, James and Camille (James second wife) are the parents of Luke. Also, they now have a daughter Alexandria.
I thought this might be helpful,
Thank you,
Kimberly
Name: Kimberly Smoker <pumpkin34_84@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-04-17 Your Hometown Nanaimo, BC Comments:
Hello! This is a fascinating page! I have found myself (born Kimberly Louise Wiebe--only one "e" in Kimberly!) and I have found my brothers and sister and my father and my mother! This is so very cool. All of us Wiebe children think so (so you know!) If you would like more information about my husband's family, if it is relevant to your tree, I can provide it! Thank you for doing this; it is wonderful to be able to look into one's past in such a way.
Name: Rene Truber <office@falconartstudios.com> Date: 2005-04-16 Your Hometown Graz/Austria Comments:
Hi!
Our family roots go back until Primus Truber in 1508
Name: Sarah Gaillard Peck <gasacasa@toad.net> Date: 2005-03-02 Your Hometown Frederick, MD Comments:
Deacon Paul Peck m. Martha HALE In 1757 Samuel3 m. Ruth HOPKINS in CT. My paternal ggrandfather ran a hotel in Saratoga Springs NY. His cousin have ancestors married in Baldwinsville NY, born in Lysander NY.Love how you have used Reunion to create your web page. An inspiration for the future.
Name: v ernon myers <dobrothers@lakecable.ca> Date: 2005-02-22 Your Hometown salmon arm Comments:
Don, you work with my dad, Elton Myers, he talked about the arctic all the time, dad past away 3 years ago, great site brought back good memories.
Name: Angie Hague <kahague@telusplanet.net> Date: 2005-01-30 Your Hometown Grande Prairie Comments:
Hi,
My husband and I visited this site looking for anything related to my grandfather, Wally Kuysters. He worked for Panarctic Oil in the early 70's and worked in Ellesmere Island I believe. My grandmother just gave us his old parka that he used to wear there and we became interested in what he was doing there. My husband works in the oil field now and would really like to hear from anyone who knew Grandpa. He was such a friendly and outgoing person, that someone out there has to remember him. We would love to hear from you....
Keith and Angie Hague
Name: Betty LaPalme Hamilton <betty7538@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-01-15 Your Hometown North Attleboro, MA Comments:
Great site! I enjoyed browsing. I descend from the Belland family. I thought my grandfather George B Belland,descending Joseph(Jan 11, 1804), Joseph Francois (Aug 14, 1176), Louis(July 10, 1750), Jean Baptiste(1711,Neuville) and Mathurin (Mar 25, 1678)Beland- tried to Americanize his name by spelling it with 2 ll's. Now I find there are lots of Bellands- most out in the northwest. Grandfather George worked on the railroad. His family came from Canada to Rutland, VT and then on to Massachusetts. He had 5 daughters and 2 sons. Son Arthur died of TB at the age of 30 and never married. Son George I can't find any information on. So I feel the Belland family name died out with this generation.
Name: Duane Fiorini <fiorini@frontier.net> Date: 2005-01-07 Your Hometown Durango, Colorado USA Comments:
Very nice! Enjoyed the photos of the wolves, foxes and bears. Have made a couple of trips to Northern Canada..once to Great Bear Lake, summertime...Kasba Lake and into the Yukon and BC a few times...read a lot of arctic books, enjoy the country immensely..enjoy fly fishing. Thanks!
Duane Fiorini
Name: Darren Rogers <flybyboomer@earthlink.net> Date: 2004-12-20 Your Hometown Calgary Comments:
Hi Don,
My name is Darren Rogers. I was a Twin Otter co-pilot from 1981 to 1984 for Pan Arctic. I am now Boeing 737 Captain for Aloha Airlines in Honolulu. My stepdad Spike Sheret was a Herc Captain for PWA from mid 70's to mid 80's. You probably met him. He was involved in many of Pan Arctic's rig moves and other operations. I think I remember you, but I was trying to remember what your job designation was. I have lots of pictures in my archives, mainly aviation related. I flew Chas Heatherington on their annual Arctic Char fishing expeditions two summers. It was a memorable time in my life, it's great you have a web site to reference the good old days. I'll try and e-mail you some photos.
Regards: Darren Rogers
Name: Nick James <nickjj@ntlworld.com> Date: 2004-12-15 Your Hometown Chalfont St Giles, England Comments:
I am related to the James family that lived in Westminster Rd, Liverpool.
My grandfather was James Hawkesworth James and my father Austin. I am trying to track what happened to my father's sister - Gabby. I think she moved to Canada.
Name: Terry Lamb <tlamb9@intergate.ca> Date: 2004-12-03 Your Hometown White Rock, B.C. Comments:
Thanks for the great pictures Don! I worked at Rea Point as a pilot on the PWA Hercules and also the 727 and 737. It is amazing what was accompished in that environment by a very dedicated group of men.
Name: Ken Machell <kenmac2@telus.net> Date: 2004-11-26 Your Hometown Red Deer Comments:
Great pictures of the Arctic islands, the camps, the equipment, and the men. I was working on Adeco Rig 4 in 74 when the plane crash occurred. I had stayed home an extra week to attend a friends wedding and missed the plane ride that killed my whole crew ( and others ). I enjoyed the work in the harsh environment in the Arctic, but couldn't return after the crash.
I have some pictures hidden somewheres of that time, if I can find them I'll scan them and send them to you.
Thanks for setting this site up - it was great to see the photos.
Name: john shindelka <jofrsh55@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-11-05 Your Hometown edmonton Comments:
30 years ago this last Oct. 30th was the anniversary of the Electra crash; the plane I didn't get on as I was visiting in BC. I wouldn't have been able to make it back in time to catch the flight north, so all my family had assumed I was on the plane. My mom and I relived her thoughts of that day as if it was yesterday.Funny how some memories stay real.
Name: Pauline Braaksma <pauline_braaksma@msn.com> Date: 2004-10-29 Your Hometown Clearwater, B.C. Comments:
One more thing of interest I have noticed. The name of Mike Yacyshen comes up as family name . How is he related? My father , Michael Ewanyshyn 's mother's maiden name was Yacyshyn or Yacyshen . Her first name was Pauline and she had a brother Michael also. The family was originally from Ukraine but settled in Manitoba in the early 1900's and then went on to Saskatchewan in 1906. Small world!
Name: Pauline Braaksma <pauline_braaksma@msn.com> Date: 2004-10-29 Your Hometown Clearwater, B.C. Comments:
P.S. I think this a great site . Sure wish I had the talent , patience and energy to do something like this for my family some day. This has been an inspiration!! Say hello to Paulette and Carol for me , please. I believe Paulette met my brother Dan in town a while back.
Name: Pauline Braaksma <pauline_braaksma@msn.com> Date: 2004-10-29 Your Hometown Clearwater Comments:
Just stumbled across you family site. Fondly remember neighbours and friends ,the Peck family of Hardwick Street in Bby. in the 1950's. I lived done the street . There was a bunch of us! Carol and Paulette may remember the Ewanyshyn Family. Strange to see you are in Chase , as that is were my family...parents ended up We moved there in 1959. My parents owned a big old house down by the S.Thompson River at the end of Aylmer road!!! The family just sold it recently .
Name: Kent Mac Dougall <kmacdougall@rogers.blackberry.net> Date: 2004-10-23 Your Hometown Winnipeg, Manitoba Comments:
Hi Don,
Enjoyed looking at your photo's, that is one thing I wish I had done when
I was working up their.
I don't know if you remember, but I worked for Panarctic from 1978-1980(and with Dome Pete from 1975-1978,in Inuvik) flying the Twin Otters.
We now live in Winnipeg, after leaving PanArctic i went to work for Air Canada flying the Airbus 319,320 & 321 out of Winnipeg.
I can not belive that was 26 years ago.
Kent
Name: ray winters <heart@westriv.com> Date: 2004-10-22 Your Hometown fort yates, north dakota Comments:
my grandmother's name was esther belland, her father's name was charles, his
father was henri. i've found a family of the name belland who settled in the
vicinity of thunder bay, ontario around 1840's. from there the name trails
westward, descendants with the surname of belland have surfaced in northern
minnesota on the ojibway white earth reservation and also around the spirit
lake sioux reservation in northeastern dakota territory. it was at spirit lake
my grandmother was born.
Name: j.r.slaybaugh <jrslaybaugh@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-09-21 Your Hometown clovis,ca. Comments:
I pulled my first slips at 15 and the slips weighed almost more than me.
Roughnecked and drove boomtrucks in Venezuela and U.S.
Retired recently and happy to do so.Enjoyed the pic's.
Lot's of good memories. thanks- j.s.
Name: Jamie Moira MacPherson-MacDonald <jmacd@cnwl.igs.net> Date: 2004-09-19 Your Hometown North Lancaster URL of your Homepage http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jmacd&submit=Go Comments:
I came upon your tree when my name popped up as one of your sources in a google search.On further examination I see I connect to quite a few people in your tree.Catherine MacDonald,plus all the MacPhersons and quite a few of the Bethunes.
Fantastic site!Catherine MacDonald is my 2nd greatgrand Aunt.Her daughter Isabella was married to my greatgrand Uncle Findlay MacPherson.
Name: Jamie Moira MacPherson-MacDonald <jmacd@cnwl.igs.net> Date: 2004-09-19 Your Hometown North Lancaster URL of your Homepage http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jmacd&submit=Go Comments:
I came upon your tree when my name popped up as one of your sources in a google search.On further examination I see I connect to quite a few people in your tree.Catherine MacDonald,plus all the MacPhersons and quite a few of the Bethunes.
Fantastic site!Catherine MacDonald is my 2nd greatgrand Aunt.Her daughter Isabella was married to my greatgrand Uncle Findlay MacPherson.
Name: Paul Borzyak <borzyak-at-mail.ru> Date: 2004-09-17 Your Hometown Melbourne, Australia Comments:
Dear Sir,
I found some reference to "Simon Borziak" and also E.Borziak on your site.
My family name is "Borzyak" which sounds the same in Ukrainian as "Borziak".
I know that all "Borzyaks/Borziaks" come from Ukraine and from particular place in Ukraine ( city of Zolotonosha, Kremenchug area )
The only information I have for the name "Simon ( Simeon) Borziak is that this person was born in 1867 and had 3 brothers ( Grigory, Ivan, Feodor ).
He had five sons ( Pavlo, which is my granddad, Mikola, Ivan, Simeon, Dmitro )
Simeon's father - Ivan, was born in 1819. He was a military officer, served in some Lancers Regiment, Russian army.
Unfortunately, I don't have any information on women, as my family tree only displays mens names.
If you could give me any information on "Simon Borziak" and "E.Borziak", I will be very grateful.
My intention is pure curiosity and I am trying to complete the family tree.
Thanks
Paul Borzyak
Melbourne, Australia
Name: Frank Wright <fkwright@telusplanet.net> Date: 2004-08-25 Your Hometown Grande Prairie AB Comments:
Brings back memories of growing up during the oil boom around Swift Current in the 1950's and 60's!
Name: Garry Weyman <gdweyman@canada.com> Date: 2004-08-25 Your Hometown Sundre, Alberta Comments:
Hi Don:
Great web site. Enjoyed the Arctic pictures and brought back lots of memories for me. If you remember I was the Flight Engineer on PAB the night that we impacted the ice at Rae Point. Thank you for some super pictures. Keep up yhe good work.
Garry Weyman
Name: Rhonda Failing <hart28r@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-08-12 Your Hometown owensboro ky Comments:
i am trying to find my familytree and i am not geting vary far on my one any help would be vary nice. My grand father is Edward failing his brother is Jason failing there mothers madin name was mathewes i think that is how it is spelled am not shour.
Name: deborah colgate <dalechevy3@comcast.net> Date: 2004-08-10 Your Hometown whitman,mass Comments:
hi don...this is quite the site...i came apon it looking for info on my grandfathers family on my moms side...his name is walter smith...he has some seminole indian in him.....i know its a long short but if you have any info, would love to see it....he lived in bridgewater ,mass...died in 1966 when i was 10....he married mary brown a nd they had 6 children...gertrude,walter,mary,agnes,beatrice,gloria...also my first marriage was to a wesley bethune, which the bethune name was another one i came across on your site, they were also from canada...his father was arthur edward bethune , he was one of 13 children...arthur had a brother named percy bethune...any info would be welcomed...this was interesting thank you...deborah colgate
Name: aleoko <aleoko@gazeta.pl> Date: 2004-08-04 Your Hometown Szczecin URL of your Homepage http://www.metalfurniture.biz Comments:
Congratulations for you. Your site looks great. Good luck with your site ! I enjoyed the visit good stuff
Name: Donna Lackey <donna.b.lackey@lmco.com> Date: 2004-07-23 Your Hometown Cartersville, GA Comments:
I was surfing the internet looking for the Lackey family crest. We have recently started making wine as a hobby and wanted the crest for the wine label. Thought I would sign your guestbook.
Name: Denise Delander <ddelander@comcast.net> Date: 2004-07-07 Your Hometown Maple Grove, MN Comments:
Hi Don,
I came across your site while searching for info on the Neveux and Lavallee families. These are my husband's ancestors. I found your entry for Celeste Lavallee married to Joseph Neveux. You list children according to the 1880 census. In the 1900 census there are 4 additional children, Christine (b Nov 1882), Paul (b Oct 1884), Annie (b Dec 1886) and Geneva (Mar 1893). The 1900 census also shows that Celest had 10 children total of which only 6 were still living. Paul Neveux married Agnes Docherty and they had a daughter Grace who is my husband's grandmother. I purchased copies of death certificates for Joseph and Celest and they state that they were buried in Forest Lake. If I find there gravesites, I will take pictures and email them to you.
Sincerely,
Denise Delander
Name: David Lamb <david.lamb@ualberta.net> Date: 2004-06-13 Your Hometown Edmonton Alberta Comments:
Impressive site, Don.
I'm tracing a french-canadian ancestor I've just learned of, and it looks like she's descended from the Louis Banville and Marie Boudeau marriage you have on your tree from the mid 1700's.
Name: EILEEN BOLDREGHINI <gentravelin2@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-04-13 Your Hometown JONESBORO,AR Comments:
HI, HOW ARE YOU? I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR A POSSIBLE LINK BETWEEN MY GGG-GRANDMOTHER, LACKEY FULLER AND THE SURNAME LACKEY. SHE IS LISTED IN THE 1850 HENRY COUNTY GA CENSUS, AS L FULLER. HER HUSBAND WAS BERRIMAN FULLER, WHO DESCENDED FROM EZEKIEL FULLER OF VA AND THE CAROLINAS. LACKEY'S SON DANIEL FULLER(MY GG-GRANDFATHER)NAMED ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS LACKEY AS WELL. MY GG-GRANDPARENTS, DANIEL AND MALISSA FULLER MOVED FROM GA TO JONESBORO, AR IN THE 1850'S. I NOTICED IN YOUR WEB SITE YOU HAVE AN UNKNOWN FULLER, AND I THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE A LINK. THANKS FOR ALL OF THE TIME YOU HAVE PUT IN ON THIS WONDERFUL WEB SITE. GOD BLESS, EILEEN
Name: Mugu Larry <mugzo@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-03-30 Your Hometown LA Comments:
Cant find john smith . good site I dey here o
Name: JoEllen LeVitre <jl1943@msn.com> Date: 2004-03-28 Your Hometown Minneapolis Comments:
Hello, I came across your site while researching my family. My great-great-great grandparents were Catherine Letendre and Antoine LeVitre. JoEllen LeVitre
Name: Mikki taylor <rmblizz@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-03-15 Your Hometown Belpre, Ohio URL of your Homepage none Comments:
What a wonderful site!
I came across.
Looking for a Mary Elizabeth Taylor Peck born Oct. 26, 1862
she married George Peck born Nov. 10, 1855
together they had three children that I no of
Thomas, Sarah and Ellen.
George's parents were Sarah and William.
all from Ontario, Canada
did'nt find them but it was fun looking.
thanks
mikki from Ohio
Name: Ted Mudge <mudgekin@juno.com> Date: 2004-03-10 Your Hometown Southern California Comments:
I've stopped by your homepage around a half dozen times, in the past week or so, while I have been browsing around & looking at various genealogy homepages. I particularly like the graphics that you have. So I went to the DreamCatchers site & downloaded that same set of graphics. I want to give them credit for their work, but their homepage & email address have both suddenly disappeared. 'Too bad, as they have some really nice stuff. If you discover that they have a valid new address, please let me know, so that I can give credit. Thanks. (Nice homepage, by the way.)
Name: sherwood <pear_212000@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-03-09 Your Hometown tunkhannock.pa URL of your Homepage yahoo.com Comments:
i didn't find any sherwood in here.
Name: Cindy <cindaberry1@yahoo> Date: 2004-03-04 Your Hometown Brockway, Pa Comments:
Hello I found Your history very interesting.
I myself am also from a family of Smiths But I think a different one
on my mothers side. But, I'm having no luck finding anything on them
Thank you for shareing this with me
Cindy Steele
Name: Ken Ryalls Jr. <ken.ryalls@sasktel.net> Date: 2004-02-29 Your Hometown Saskatoon Sask. Comments:
Hello Don, I just came upon your website this eve! I gave dad a call and I see he's posted on your guest book before I could get there! It was incredible seeing the old pictures of the Arctic and Rea Pt. I was looking on the internet for pictures of Pond Inlet, as I had just yesterday called my old friend Jesse Nuturak, who lives in Pond still. Looking back on those days in the Arctic, one realizes what an incredible experience it really was! I wish I would have appreciated it more when I was there, instead of just wishing and waiting to "go south"!
I remember well, all of the pictures you were always taking when we worked up there, ( I think I even have a couple) and I'm certainly grateful you put together this great website. Has anyone ever talked of planning a "reunion" of all the guys that used to work up there?? I'd certainly be interested in being at that one!!! All the best, and I hope to hear from some of the old crew from Rea Pt.! Ken
Name: Ken B. Ryalls <kenbr@shaw.ca> Date: 2004-02-29 Your Hometown 13504-136 Ave Edmonton AB. Comments:
Hi Don , long time no see. Where are you living now ? I would sure like to
see you again, and talk about our Arctic experiences.
Name: alison smith <abjames1@bigpond.com.au> Date: 2004-02-28 Your Hometown Sydney Australia Comments:
Thanks for the journey. I was looking for my fathers auntie may from blackburn and any other members of the family long since forgotten. I am not sure of auntie may's surname. Too many smiths in Blackburn to track the rest down.
Name: Suzanne Lackey Vaughn <suz_vaughn@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-02-04 Your Hometown Hardwick, MA Comments:
What a wonderful site!
I have only begun to try to piece together my largely missing Lackey family. My father was Pierce Eubanks Lackey, Jr., his father was Sr. I recall as a small child a Hecht S. Lackey putting together an extensive record (in bound book form no less,) of the (my) Lackey family. Unfortunately the record is among the many missing artifacts of my childhood. I do know that Pierce E. Lackey, Sr. was possibly mayor of Paducah, KY at one time, and Hecht S. Lackey may also have been involved in McCracken County KY politics. Beyond that, I am in the dark. Would love to know if my Lackeys are related to you, or if any other Lackeys out there share the Pierce-and-Hecht connection.
Best wishes,
Suzanne Lackey Vaughn
Name: steve cooney <scooney@cord-master.com> Date: 2004-01-21 Your Hometown smiths falls ont Comments:
worked in the patch lloyd minster area from 1977 to 1986 .
Name: Lisa <lmayer4@excite.com> Date: 2004-01-15 Your Hometown Cleveland Comments:
You are missing many people from Canada that are descended from the Kittson and Waddin/Bethune lines. ALso - Dr. Henry Norman Bethune is descended from Rev. John Bethune. Rev. John Bethune was born in 1751 in Skye, was educated at King's College in Aberdeen and came to @ Goldsborough, North Carolina in 1773 and was taken prisoner by British soldiers for 2 years after being part of an uprising of a Scottish Highlanders. He moved to Canada and was married to Veronque Waddin, daughter of a Swiss Professor of Berne University. He built the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal and later lived in Williamstown. He died in September 1815 and his wife died in 1846 in Montreal. They had 9 children. The fourth of 9 children was Norman Bethune, born March 8th, 1789, in Montreal.He married at Sorel, Quebec, to Margaret Kittson. He died July 27, 1848, aged 59 yrs. He had been a merchant, Queens Auctioneer, and a colonel in the 1st regiment, Montreal 1837-38. He had 6 children.
I have a few pages more of information but this should help until I can send you the rest - Lisa (my grandmother was a Bethune descendant of Rev. John. There are many living descendants in Ontario, Quebec, Oregon, and Ohio.
Name: Ashlee <taylor8572@aol.com> Date: 2003-12-29 Your Hometown Midland, MI Comments:
Hi! I thought your page was very interesting! I found it while I was at ancestry.com researching some of my family history starting at David Lake and Alice Backster (back in 1500s). Just to be sure if it was really the same David Lake and Alice Backster, I compared my grandmother's census sheets and David and Alice's children matched up with the members in my direct line (Thomas Lake, then Gershom Lake, then Asa Lake, etc.) My grandmother's maiden name was Lake, too.
Name: Gary <croc12004@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-11-28 Your Hometown Fraser Island Australia URL of your Homepage http://www.ozmagic.homestead.com/index.html Comments:
Thanks for this web site. I found what I was looking for. I'll be back.
Name: Lyle Richards <patnlyle@shaw> Date: 2003-11-23 Your Hometown Red Deer AB Comments:
Hi Don;
Great site and thanks. I was a welder stationed out of Rea the winter of 79 and the summer of 1980. You got some of faverite memories capruted here. My memories are a little fussy. but when I saw the Rea Point Hilton just as remembered it. That was very cool. I'sorry, I can't say I remember you, but if you were yard foreman, I must of had to work for ya. I remember Mankuso(sp?). The ledgend was they nearly named Rea after him because he came up on one of the Cat trains.
Name: DON FOSTER <WEATHERFORD> Date: 2003-11-13 Your Hometown LLOYDMINSTER Comments:
HI DON I WAS ON WESTBURN HIGHTOWER RIG 1...77 78 79 SOME OF THE BOYS I REMEMBER ARE RICK HODSON GERRY CORTH GARRY SMITH CARL MORN ....IT WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE I WILL NEVER FORGET THE FIRST TIME I STEPPED OFF THE PLAIN I JUST ABOUT TURNED AROUD AND RAN BACK IN WHAT AN EYE OPENER FOR A SMALL TOWNBOY FROM SASKATCHEWAN ...[WHAT A TREAT TO SEE THIS WEB SITE GOOD JOB DON]
Name: john shindelka <footnine@lycos.com> Date: 2003-10-19 Your Hometown edmonton Comments:
There was to my knowledge 2 people that didn't make the ill fated Electra plane trip to Rea Point. One was a fellow that got bumped at the Wescan Terminal and myself who needed a week more in time off. My brother in laws, Ed Sidor and Kelly Macgregor; who were in Rea Point awaiting the flight; were quite relieved to know that I didn't get on the plane that day. As well Ed Sidor was supposed to be coming south and we didn,t know much about him either. I lost a lot of buddies too. John Shindelka, Edmonton, AB
Name: Brian Walters <brian.walters@canada.weatherford.com> Date: 2003-10-08 Your Hometown Lloydminster Comments:
Don,
I remember your name as we shipped materials to you from Wescan Terminal at the Edm Int'l Airport. I was one of the aircraft loaders. We loaded PAB, PAK and a few hercs in between. For me this was from '72 to '76. I was to Rea Point a couple of times and once up to Eureka, near the north pole. I will never forget those trips.
I moved over the the 'Delta after working for PanArctic and working in Tuk for Dome. This was alos very memorable.
Thankyou for the effort to put this together. I found this site a month ago.
Best Regards,
Brian Walters.
Name: Roger Peck <rpeck11@cox.net> Date: 2003-10-03 Your Hometown Bunker Hill, Kansas Comments:
Looking for information about Great-grandfather George S. Peck from New York
birth-date @1844
Name: Dana Hyshka <danahyshka@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-09-26 Your Hometown Chilliwack. B.C. Comments:
looking for any Hyshka's
Name: me <nunya> Date: 2003-09-10 Your Hometown nunya Comments:
hey hey there i came here for home work but it did not help me i got this site from google!!
Name: Tracy Ullum <delainadee333@earthlink.com> Date: 2003-08-06 Your Hometown Checotah Ok. Comments:
Your site is very nice I'm Looking for George Washington smith, lucretia Smith, Margret Pierce. any info would be greatful and thankful. Thank you Tracy Ullum
Name: shirley <smpeppin@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-08-01 Your Hometown minnesota Comments:
Hi, I say the name of albert harron, listed in your family, and wondering if it is the same harron, from ontario, canada. I am trying to trace my family, (harron) and my grandfather had a brother named albert. thank you, shirley
Name: Wanda Powell <aligator@localnet.com> Date: 2003-08-01 Your Hometown Searsmont Comments:
Enjoyed but nothing on the Fraser family names I'm looking for they seem to be a mystery
Name: J.lackey <ljd@cableone.net> Date: 2003-07-26 Your Hometown columbus,mississippi Comments:
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Name: Ms Bobbie Smith Leschingski <bjleski@texoma.net> Date: 2003-07-20 Your Hometown Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas URL of your Homepage None Comments:
New email address. Still searching for g-grandfather, Nip, N.W., Napoleon W. Smith, b. abt. 1835 in Ala. d. 1905 in Fannin Cty, Tx. Married Malvina Barrow in Mississippi in Apr 1865. I wonder if I will ever find what his parents' names
are, it's been some 20 years and I'm just stuck at Nip.
Thanks for your site, I find I just enjoy reading the comments from such a vast area. It's like I'm traveling there. Good Luck to all Smiths in their quests.
Name: Monique Belland <fox27m@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-07-20 Your Hometown St. Albert Alberta Canada Comments:
I found many Bellands on your web page who resided in the areas of Edmonton Westlock and Morrnville Alberta Canada. This is where much of my Fathers (Louis)relatives lives(lived). I was born Jan 27, 1982. (I also have 2 brothers), my father was born in Edmonton Oct 27, 1957 from Andre and Denis Belland of Edmonton. His Grandparents on his fathers side were Louis and Noelle Belland. If you have any more information or are interested in any more information from me please e-mail me. Thank-you
Name: chris <chrissmithtoronto@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-07-04 Your Hometown sudbury Comments:
uncle don and paulette
have a good move.
nephew chris
Name: Terry Jesudason <hainterex@polarland.com> Date: 2003-06-30 Your Hometown Trail, BC Comments:
Hi Don, Thanks for your great site. I have lived in Resolute since 1975 and was great friends with Lynn and Don Connelly so it was wonderful to see his picture in Chapter 2. I heard about your site from his daughter. It brought back lots or memories seeing the pictures and although I never went over to Rae Point, we were always very much aware of all the goings on in the industry during those hectic times and we did burn the crude in our community power generating station here for a while. I think it came from Cameron Island. I'll be leaving Resolute for good in Sept. - time to move south after 33 years in this marvelous High Arctic. Thanks for sharing your memories. Best regards, Terry
Name: Dena Leader <dlead5@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-18 Your Hometown Ada, Ok. 74820 Comments:
I am trying to find a Don Smith that was raised in Wetumka,Ok: My sister Opal Yates, was engaged to marry Don Smith in 1949.
She would like to find out about him.
Name: Marjorie McQuay <mmcquay@sympatico.ca> Date: 2003-06-07 Your Hometown Barrie, Ontario Comments:
Since placing a message on this site last Nov., I have been in contact with my great uncle's daughter, Mary Cameron Murdock in Eugene, Oregon. It would not have been possible without someone who knows Mary seeing the message and contacting me. This just goes to show what a great tool the internet and family genealogy sites are.
Name: doug moston <dispatchmoston@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-06-03 Your Hometown calgary,alberta URL of your Homepage http://www Comments:
Its been many years that I have thought about up there and with all the stories from the men and women it would rival the encyclopedia in size.
Name: Kelly Thomas <kelly@thomas171.fsnet.co.uk> Date: 2003-05-13 Your Hometown Peterborough, UK Comments:
Hi, I'm currently researching the Peck line in Wix in Essex England in the early 1900's. Interesting to see what information you have on the Peck Line.
Thanks
Name: Lola (Smith) Angell <brucerc@pcpartner.net> Date: 2003-05-12 Your Hometown Kellogg, IA URL of your Homepage none Comments:
Don: Super website. I have been wondering what Reunion would look like, as that is what I use. Nothing but "Mac's" for me. It's so easy to go from one page to another, even though I didn't find my GGrandfather, William G. (Gordon?) Smith b. 1831 somewhere in PA. He married Catherine Logan b. 1831 in McDonough County, IL.
They had six children:
James Lockhart Smith b.30 Jun1859, d. 1910 in IA (my Grandfather)
Samuel W. Smith b. abt 1863
Mary P. Smith b. abt 1866
William T. Smith b. abt 1868
Ralph E. Smith b. 15 Sep 1870 in MO d. 1949 in MO
Emma Catherine Smith b. 10 Oct 1874 in MO
Thanks for the wonderful site, I will be back to visit again.
Lola
Name: Rob Wilson <saabstory@saabmail.com> Date: 2003-05-08 Your Hometown Lethbridge URL of your Homepage www.theconcierge.ca Comments:
Great pictures Don! I was casually looking for Panarctic Info on the crash of '74. My brother and I were on duty at Rea Point that night, and were the first to find the crash site. Both of us went in the water over our heads looking for survivors at the edge of the hole in the ice. We found several. (They didn't make it in all the confusion. I knew the survivors quite well.) I was up there longer than my brother, and had worked at all the sites you have pictures of. You only mentioned the crash once... at the memorial. I didn't even know about that. I was fuelman... unloaded the tanker 3 times; equipment operator... ran the 966's pictured at Rea Point; labourer... my first job was unloading a Hercules during a rig move at Egglington Island.. the ice strip. I have some pictures... all about the same colour at yours... but not nearly so many, and not so well documented. Great job. Brought back a lot of memories.. good and bad.
I was the first man up the air stairs when Panarctic replaced PAB with the leased 727... and welcomed the first female stewardess into the arctic. I remember she was quite beautiful... but I had been in for 3 weeks by then!!!
I'm sending your link to my brother. I'm surprised I don't remember you. We were at the same place for a long time. I remember 'Bryce'. And a big Ukrainian forman named Don I think.. who flipped out at the wreck during rescue operations. He wasn't all that popular. He made us shovel out pipe racks on New Years eve in '73 after a big blizzard had covered them... as you say.. under a dozen feet of packed snow - just to keep us busy.
I wish I had taken a lot more pictures. That was a unique time in our lives, andn in the history of oil exploration. I will use yours. If you have to shut down the website for any reason, I would really appreciate hearing from you so I can grab copies of your pictures.
Thanks.
Name: Marge Rogers <jest1mo@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-04-30 Your Hometown Sonora,CA Comments:
Great list--wish you had my Salmon and Anna Peck-- oh well!
Name: Michelle <mst3@ualberta.ca> Date: 2003-04-15 Your Hometown Edmonton Comments:
Just wanted to say that I did fieldwork on Melville Island last summer. Its strange to see pictures of Rea Point with all the buildings....all that's left now is the airstrip and a weather station. But otherwise it looks the same as it did 20 years ago.
Name: DONALD RAY SMITH <SMI4SHR@AOL.COM> Date: 2003-04-13 Your Hometown ELON, N.C. Comments:
I NEVER KNEW MY FATHER . HE WAS FROM ARKANSAS AND HIS MOTHER WAS A TOLBERT .I JUST KEEP SEARCHING.
Name: Lois Bett <jolobett@telus.net> Date: 2003-03-18 Your Hometown KAMLOOPS Comments:
THE PICTURES ARE SUPER. DON CONNOLY IS MY GIRLFRIENDS BROTHER. I LIKE THE GENEALOGY SET UP. WOULD LOVE TO DO ONE LIKE IT
LOIS
Name: Timmy Proudfoot <j.kat@shaw.ca> Date: 2003-03-14 Your Hometown Gabriola Island, B.C. Comments:
What a thrill to view your site and see a picture of my brother Don Connelly in Arctic experiences. Donald passed away on January 18th, 2000. He had wonderful experiences in the Arctic.
Name: Pam Lowe (Connelly) <frank.lowe@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: 2003-03-14 Your Hometown Halifax N.S. Comments:
I really enjoyed your Panarctic memories. It was a very pleasant surprise to see a picture of my Dad,(Don Connelly) In one of your sea-lift photos. It is a real treat to see a picture of Dad that I didn't know existed. Unfortunately
he passed away in Jan 2000, I know he would have enjoyed the site. He loved
the time he spent with Panarctic, the people, the location and the challenge that came with oil exploration in the north.
Thanks again. Pam.
Name: Carol Swinehart Swanson <royeva@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-02-26 Your Hometown Sacramento, Califonria Comments:
I was looking for Barbara Allspach and Johan George Swinehart. My ancestor is their child Benjamin. He was born after Johan George died. I am also doing research on my husbands side in Smithville, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada.
Name: george lackey <seniorlackfam@aol.com> Date: 2003-02-01 Your Hometown ilderton ontario Canada URL of your Homepage N/A Comments:
Looking for info. on logan family name which is known to include references to Lackey and copperthwaite names which are parent and grandparent names
Name: francis h belland jr <frank.belland@bellandnsons.com> Date: 2003-01-31 Your Hometown debary fl URL of your Homepage http://www.bellandnsons.com Comments:
What information do you have on the belland family that can tie my grandfather in?
I'm looking for my grandfather parents.
This is the only information I have from my father.
We found information on my grandfather but someone put he was born in PHILA as well as his children, but my father and relatives tell me he was
Either born in Canada or NASHUA N.H. My aunts, children of my grandfather tell me they were all born in NASHUA N.H.
My Father, Francis H Belland, Sr. was born in Phila Penna, he was from a family of four (Betty, Agnes, Edward, Francis).
We believe my Grandfather EDWARD JOHN BELLAND (aka John Edward Belland) (born June 06, 1881, was listed as (June 4, 1881) was born somewhere in ST JEAN BAPTISTE SOCIETE NASHUA N.H THIS IS PLACE WHERE my father Francis h. belland, sr. said he WAS BORN and raised sometime in his early life is a French Monastery or mission.
EDWARD JOHN BELLAND aka John Edward Belland, died in New Jersey buried in PHILA), USA. died on June 10, 1971, in Cape May County, NJ, buried on June 14, 1971, at Holy Sepulchre in Philadelphia. he was Living with Daughter AGNES M. FEHN nee BELLAND Ocean City, New Jersey (married name Agnes FEHN).
some say he was born in the Alsace Lorraine region and immigrated to Montreal or Quebec, and was maybe educated by the Chippewa Indians in Quebec area. He was a farmer then carpenter --worked on the Boston-Maine Railroad, then worked on the Reading Railroad --bringing him to Philadelphia.
JOHN BELLAND (aka John Edward Belland) married MARTINA AGNES AICHER Abt. 1905 (married 05/05/1905).
If you can point me to a source to provide good information. You have my respect forever.
Thank you for any assistance.
Francis h belland, jr.
frank.belland@bellandnsons.com
Name: Darrell Allen Peck <anyone_nobody@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-01-26 Your Hometown Potosi,Mo. URL of your Homepage www.msn.com Comments:
Looking for ancesters.
Name: Robert Lackey <lackey_lana@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-01-11 Your Hometown Corvallis, Oregon, USA Comments:
b. May 18, 1944
Name: Jeff Swain <jeffrey_swain@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-01-02 Your Hometown Witless Bay, Newfoundland Comments:
Hi Don,
Great website. As a young mechanical/drilling engineer in the oilfield I hadn't realized that so many holes were drilled so far north. Your pics are very informative of what it was like to live and work up there. And here I thought I had it bad when I worked on the Swamp Barges in Louisiana with Schlumberger. The Arctic seems to be having a little revival now. I guess everyone is trying to secure gas reserves for a new Mackenzie Valley pipeline. I am currently working out of Calgary and we are designing drilling facilities and performing feasibility studies for new exploration programs located in the Beaufort Sea. I doubt however that they will drill as far north as you guys did years ago.
Name: Richard Grynas <grynas@attglobal.net> Date: 2002-12-31 Your Hometown Edmonton Comments:
December 31, 2002
Hello Don!
I was searching the net for pictures of Electras for a presentation I am scheduled to give to a friend's club in Edmonton. The topic being my aviation experiences. A search on "panarctic oils" yielded a link to a site by one Don Smith. Since there can't be that many Don Smiths in the world linked to Panarctic Oils I knew it had to be you. I've just spent the last hour looking with great enjoyment at all of your pictures, taking the time to explain them to my wife as she looked over my shoulder. It brought back a lot of very fond memories. Thank you for taking the time to put these things together.
I'm still flying. After Panarctic, Gerry Murphy and I spent a summer working for LIAT based in Antigua. I always think of Antigua as the time I flew a Twin Otter while wearing shoes! From 1987 to 1989 I worked for Brooker Wheaton in Edmonton. My neatest trip with them was when we flew Gray Alexander and Tom McPike to Resolute in the Lear. Gary Hansen picked them up in PAO and took them to Cameron Island while I hung around at Narwahl with Jim Wendlegas and Ralph Pendry. In 1990 I snagged a job in France as an F/O on an F-28 flying for the airline TAT. This was a subcontract through the Montreal airline Intair. In August 1990 I was offered a job with Canadian as S/O on the DC10. So we packed up and moved to Richmond. A year later layoffs came and in 1992 we moved back to our house in Edmonton. Recall came in 1994 and I spent 4 absolutely great years oiling on the '10. Drank beer on four continents! In 1998 I moved to F/O on the 737, and despite the turmoil associated with Air Canada, I am still enjoying flying this machine. While Canadian still did the north flying I even did a couple of trips to Resolute. It was kind of a dream fulfilling thing to sit on the ramp in YRB and think about how we used to charge around the North in years gone by.
Don, may I ask for your permission to use some of your images for my presentation. They would be very informative for the folks watching. Please drop me an email at your convenience.
Merry Christmas and all the best to you and your family in 2003.
Yours truly,
Richard Grynas
Name: Francine Sitcoske Rosenberg <angelconnection@earthlink.net> Date: 2002-12-24 Your Hometown Falls Church Va Comments:
I am looking for my father,Don Smith.I was born April 22,1945;in Newark NJ.
My mother's name is Helen Sitcoske Hope.
Name: Wanda Peck <bunnysew@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-12-12 Your Hometown Issaquah,Wa. Comments:
Looking for roger Peck of Baltimore
Name: MarshaL. Smith <smithm74@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-12-08 Your Hometown Chipley, Florida Comments:
My grandfather was Cullen James Smith. My fathers name was James (Jack) Smith. If you have any information on this family line I would love to have it. I have next to nothing.
Thanks
Name: Marjorie McQuay <mmcquay@sympatico.ca> Date: 2002-11-12 Your Hometown Barrie, Ontario, Canada Comments:
My great uncle married Elizabeth Cupples Lackey and we have lost contact with his family since the 1930's. This site is a fount of information and I hope to eventually make contact with someone in Mary or Ruth's families. I have pictures they may like to have.
Name: Kitty Kelton <kelac@pipeline.com> Date: 2002-11-08 Your Hometown Richmond, VA Comments:
Hi, Don! Enjoyed looking over your site, though not certain we are related. My Lackeys came from the mountains of VA, Rockbridge County, to be exact. They did branch out after a few generations so who knows where everyone finally went. The first immigrant, Thomas Lackey I, came to the States via Ireland in 1748. I'd love to hear from anyone who believes they are connected to my line. Though still a novice, I've been researching since '96 and have accumulated quite a few ancestors. Thanks again for your dedication!
Kitty
Name: Rudy Hiebert,www.gstown.com/catalog <rxmhiebert@shaw.ca> Date: 2002-11-04 Your Hometown Abbotsford, BC URL of your Homepage www.gastown.com/catalog Comments:
You've got a unique site here. It makes the oil filed a family affair. I invite any Amsoil Inc. inquiries if they spark any curiosity.
RH.
Name: Mike Wallace <mmwallace01@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-10-12 Your Hometown Hong Kong Comments:
Hi Don,
Thanks for the pictures of the Arctic! I too worked for Panarctic as a Radio Op from 81-85 and remember you from those days. These pictures and some of the names in the guest book bring back a lot of great memories.
Cheers!
Name: Betty Stover Ridling <BetRid@msn.com> Date: 2002-09-21 Your Hometown Fairhope, Al Comments:
Just reading site for first time. My grandmother was Beulah Mae Lackey and my grandfather was Horace Hamilton Smith of Roswell, Ga. Don't know anything about them before.
Name: Nick Barkett <barketts@shaw.ca> Date: 2002-09-18 Your Hometown Vernon Comments:
Was on Melville Island in 1968 with United Geophysical.My brother,Doc Barkett,was Party Chief there and also on Elof Ringnes(sp),Axel Heiberg and Ellsmere.Great to see pictures,would love to see more.
Name: Norma Rosen <normajr@mail.ocis.net> Date: 2002-09-16 Your Hometown Kamloops, BC Comments:
Hi Cuz!
My connection is to the Barnhill/Deyarmond/Spencer clan in Nova Scotia. Didn't know there were some in Chase!.
Your website is great. I'll have to get some instructions, if and when I ever get my courage up to try it.
Norma
Name: Joy Deal <whatajoy@msn.com> Date: 2002-09-14 Your Hometown Niles, MI Comments:
Just ran across your website. I agree that it is awesome. The Owen Deal you
have in your genealogy is also in mine. He was the great grandfather of my ex-husband. I also have the picture from Jan Monnin. Have the picture of grave site and have visited it. I am doing genealogy also and have quite a large family of Deals. e-mail me if you want any more info on them.
Name: Ken Winder <kwinder@telusplanet.net> Date: 2002-09-12 Your Hometown Whitecourt AB Comments:
Came across your site late one night and stayed up well past my bedtime reliving some of those Panarctic experiences. Started as a roustabout at Skate with Williams & Mankow for the 83-84 season. Skipped a season then was back in Aug 85 for sealift at Rea Pt until Apr 86. Never thought I'd be back again until Marty called in Aug 94. Stayed until Sept 99 & saw the demise of Drake Pt., Rea Pt. & eventually Bent Horn. Worked with McPike, Williams, Mankow, Allers, Moleschi,Brigham, etc. during the final reclamation years. Good times !
Name: Thomas Dufour <thomas.dufour@sympatico.ca> Date: 2002-09-07 Your Hometown McGregor, Ont., Comments:
Very nice web site. Would love to share more on the Belland/Beland/Besland/Borland. I also took the liberty of searching your sign in and found some other people looking for the Bellands. I may be able to help them. God Bless.
Name: Omar C Peck <akita35598@comcast.net> Date: 2002-09-01 Your Hometown Carlisle. Pennsylvania Comments:
I am trying to find the family of my grandfather who was born
in about 1870 and I think in Fulton County Pa. Married to Mary Pitman, probably in the same county.
Name: Barbara Weisenbeck <BARBWEISEN@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-17 Your Hometown Chesapeake, VA Comments:
Hi Don: Checking out your web site -- great job. I'm still looking for a connection to Thomas and John Duncanson. One of these days....... Barbara
Name: Gail M Larter <soanesfhs@btinternet.com> Date: 2002-07-28 Your Hometown Lowestoft, Suffolk, England (uk) URL of your Homepage soanesfhs@btinternet.com Comments:
Hi
Glad to see your web site on smith's on the net.
I am researching the name Smith here in England and would like to know if we could exchange any information on this surname.
As Smith is one of the name I am intested in as my grandmother was a Smith.
I have got BIRTHS AND BAPTISMS, BANNS AND MARRIAGES AND DEATHS AND BURIALS IF OUR ARE INTESTED IN THIS INFORMATION i AM HAPPY TO SEND THIS ALL TO YOU IF I CAN HAVE A ADDRESS TO SEND IT TO.
All info helps and any info I have is shared with others here in England to see if any links can be make with other parts of the World.
Hope to hear from you soon.
from G M Larter
Name: Ed Wilson <loued@telus.net> Date: 2002-07-26 Your Hometown Kelowna BC Comments:
Good stuf Don!!!
Name: Ted Warawa <robinberg100@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-07-16 Your Hometown Regina, SK Comments:
Wow...This is the best website of my family and I am still not clear how we are related...our family is kinda big.
I would like to add some information on the Peter Warawa Family (son of Peter and Pearl Warawa). Peter Warawa born 1934, Smokey Lake Alberta; Wife Audrey Wells born 1934 in Maybutt Alberta
Sons:
Lorne Warawa (born Oct 29, 1961, Red Deer Alberta)- Married Teresa Woodman - children Rianna and Max (Damen Warawa - not Damien - is son of Lorne and Veronica Semple)
Bruce Warawa (Born March 20, 1963 Red Deer Alberta) - Married Kimberly Knight- Daughters Dani and Simone
Ted Warawa (Born Jan 7, 1965, Moose Jaw Saskatchewan - Married Robin Lee Berg Children Peter Alexander (born June 26 1996), Jillian Marie (born Dec 28, 1998) and Ivana Elizebeth Anne (Born March 10, 2001) (all born in Regina SK)
Thanks for your site!
Name: Bernard Veness <bgv1@shaw.ca> Date: 2002-07-16 Your Hometown Airdrie formerly of St. Albert Comments:
Great Website
Name: Carole Davis DeWald <jerredewald@citlink.net> Date: 2002-07-07 Comments:
My mother's name is Glenda Lucille Smith Davis. Are you related to her?
Name: Bill Knowles <billkn@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-06-29 Your Hometown Lunenburg, NS Comments:
Hi Don -- Just saw the photo of you and your wife at Rea Point in 1976 -- I was there at the time so remember it well. I'm working for Air Canada Jazz in Halifax now -- moved here from Vancouver a year ago April. Hope to be moving back to the west coast by next spring. I often wonder if anything is happening up north these days. Would be fun to see it again. Hope you're well.
Regards, Bill.
Name: frank belland <FRANK.BELLAND@BELLANDNSONS.COM> Date: 2002-06-17 Your Hometown phila penna URL of your Homepage www.bellandnsons.com Comments:
father: francis henry belland sr
me: francis henry belland jr
grandfather edward john belland aka john edward belland french indian
grandmother last name aiker (german)
Name: philip meehan <tmeehanrealtor@netzero.net> Date: 2002-06-15 Your Hometown norwell mass Comments:
great site
Name: Joey Stopanski <joeshelly@monarch.net> Date: 2002-06-15 Your Hometown Medicine Hat Alberta Canada Comments:
Hello great site . I work on drilling rigs myself so i really enjoyed the pictures.
Name: Rick Benko <rickbenko@shaw.ca> Date: 2002-06-11 Your Hometown Calgary Comments:
Thanks for the great pix Don. Now I start to under stand what old Bill (Samuel)
was talking about!!! You guys were the real STUD HANDS!!
Name: Gregoire Belland <gregoireassoc@shaw.ca> Date: 2002-06-02 Your Hometown Calgary Alberta Canada Comments:
I've sent you an e-mail
Name: Leanne Carol Phinney Knox <leannecknox@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-05-27 Your Hometown Lyman NE Comments:
Daniel Zina Phinney was my paternal grandfather and Mary Ellen Voris Phinney was my paternal grandmother.
Name: Dennis Wolstenholme <dennywj@erols.com> Date: 2002-05-25 Your Hometown Woodbridge, VA,USA URL of your Homepage http://users.starpower.net/dennywj Comments:
Excellent Web site. It must have taken a lot of work and tons more research to put it together. Makes my site look pale in comparison. Great work. If you run across any more Wolstenholmes let me know.
Name: stacy thacker <brunettedevil422@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-05-22 Your Hometown dundalk URL of your Homepage dont have one Comments:
i think your site is so awesome and imformative.
Name: Maurice Denis <denis__maurice @hotmail.com> Date: 2002-05-21 Your Hometown mississuaga Ontario Canada Comments:
congratulations on all the work you have done,my intrests were the Denis Family and fraser Family.the Denis family are dit Veronneau from les cedres or st joseph soulange Province of Quebec .and Frasers are Catherine Fraser from Inverness.she was born in a town called Foulis she died between 1871&1878 I believe in Inverness she was Married to William Pittendreigh on the 1871 census she lived at 3 shore street Inverness .one of her daughters married a James Duncason.and were living in Glasgow.keep up all the nice work you are doing .
Name: Maurice Denis <denis__maurice @hotmail.com> Date: 2002-05-21 Your Hometown mississuaga Ontario Canada Comments:
congratulations on all the work you have done,my intrests were the Denis Family and fraser Family.the Denis family are dit Veronneau from les cedres or st joseph soulange Province of Quebec .and Frasers are Catherine Fraser from Inverness.she was born in a town called Foulis she died between 1871&1878 I believe in Inverness she was Married to William Pittendreigh on the 1871 census she lived at 3 shore street Inverness .one of her daughters married a James Duncason.and were living in Glasgow.keep up all the nice work you are doing .
Name: Dale Margery Rutherford Lupish <dale.lupish@sympatico.ca> Date: 2002-05-13 Your Hometown St. Catharines, Ontario URL of your Homepage www.rutherfordsincanada.com Comments:
Hi Don:
Great site!!! You have done a tremendous amount of work. The layout is great as one can move easily from one page/person to another.
I have more information on the Rutherford side if you are interested.
My best always,
DMRL
Name: Richard Wayne Fraser <rjfraser2@juno.com> Date: 2002-04-29 Your Hometown Mansfield, Texas 76063 Comments:
My name is Richard Wayne Fraser, and I am new at genealogy research and looking for my ancestors. First your site is very impressive and helpful. I know that my ancestors have gone out all over the world, so I'm searching different sites looking for help. If it is okay with you leave some of my information on your site. Any help will be appreciated. So Thanks ahead of time!
I will list my father's name and his fathers on back to Scotland. My ancestors were William P. Fraser, William Benjamin Fraser, Lewis Hipkins Fraser, William A Fraser Jr., William A Fraser Sr., Daniel Fraser was born in Scotland around 1727 and he was eduicated at Edinburgh and spoke three languages. His father was Thomas Fraser and his wife was Mary McCloud, and his brother was Simon Fraser the 12th lord of Lovat. I was told the Frasers came to Scotland around the 1100 from Anjou, France, and their names may have been LaFraseliere or LaFrazeliere. Daniel's wife was Mary Beall and their son was William A Fraser Sr. Daniel Fraser came from Scotland to Virginia. Some of the family moved to Kentucky and other states. William A. Fraser Jr. was married to Mary Reinzel (or Rencil or Rensil). When Daniel Fraser died his wife, Mary Reinzel Fraser married a Mr. Harrison in Alexandra, Virginia. Thomas Fraser family was to have gone all over the world, Canada, Australia and etc.
I'm looking for any and all connection with the Frasers.
Thanks for your space and time!
Richard W. Fraser
2606 Brookwood Drive
Mansfield, Texas 76063
(817) 473-0922
rjfraser2@juno.com
Name: Bobbie Smith Leschingski <tince67@aol.com> Date: 2002-04-20 Your Hometown Ladonia, Fannin County, ^TX URL of your Homepage none Comments:
Looking for my gg-grandfather, N.W. (Nip) Smith, wife Melvina Barrow.
Name: Henry S.Minich <henrysminich@aol.com> Date: 2002-04-09 Your Hometown Anchorage Alaska Comments:
My father was born in Northstar Alberta,he broke out with Kaps Trasnsport in the early 50s.He still tells stories of what your pictures show.Ill show him your site. Thanks Henry Minich
Name: Charles Smith <gsmith2@dellepro.com> Date: 2002-04-07 Your Hometown St. Louis. MO Comments:
I was looking for information on John F. Smith,1848-1911, and Joseph Smith, 1808-1863.
You have a very nice site.
Name: Joe Lackey <lackeyjj@aol.com> Date: 2002-04-04 Your Hometown Rexburg, ID Comments:
I enjoyed your site. I have my geneology back to Ireland (County Antrim 1750's) but maybe they're cousins?? It's not a very common name.
Regards,
joe
Name: Murray Decker <mur-dec@shaw.ca> Date: 2002-03-28 Your Hometown Saskatoon Comments:
Hello Don,I just took tour of Stephanie's wedding I enjoyed the pictures,I was at wedding in Thompson,and have been friends with Alan since 1975 when he was just a "cat".Have not had chance to look for picture of Stephanie and her first car ride from Hosptial,hope I didn't give Alan both.Murray & Joan, Cheers!
Rock-on!!
Name: Sandra M Smith <sdream555@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-03-24 Your Hometown Evansville Ind Comments:
I hope can find my roots.
Name: shirley <smpeppin> Date: 2002-03-24 Your Hometown Grasston,Minnesota Comments:
Hi,
I am looking for information on the Harron family, Thomasena Dickey, married Albert Harron, do you have any info, I sure would like to hear from you,
Name: Jamison W. Lackey <jamisonlackey@aol.com> Date: 2002-03-22 Your Hometown Birmingham, AL Comments:
Lackey of Irish descent, From Talladega Alabama before settling in Birmingham ( a much larger city).
Name: Charles <ahiru2@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-03-16 Your Hometown Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii Comments:
Enjoyed your site, especially the Places section, great idea. My Smith ancestor was William Smith who came to Kohala, Hawaii in the early 1800's had Samuel and Louisa Smith (both born 1829), by Kamalanikapu.
Name: gladwin <gladcorreia@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-03-15 Your Hometown bombay Comments:
i like oilfield pics
Name: Kim Robertson <dackstar@compuserve.com> Date: 2002-03-14 Comments:
Hi Don: Came upon your site by accident while doing some research for my son. He's doing a grade 4 school report on his Dad's experiences in the Arctic. What a coincidence - we were even using one of your photos (of Sam & Kim with the wolves) in his presentation. (You were kind enough to give me a copy about 1977). Just 10 minutes before I found your site I told my three kids about how the huskies would jossle with the wolves. As with many of my Arctic stories, they didn't believe me. So I had a good chuckle when I discovered your picture/explanation. Now they don't think their old man is so crazy after all.
Keep up the good work Don. I enjoyed my years flying for Panarctic. It's nice to have some of those memories brought back. (Except for a few. We loaded our share of loads into that cramped Twin Otter didn't we). I'm flying left seat for Air Canada on A320's right now (along with a number of Panarctic's old pilots). We meet from time to time and talk about our Panarctic days with fondness.
Kim Robertson
Name: Phillip&Sheila Nabors <pnabors61@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-03-12 Your Hometown paris tx. Comments:
looking for a marsetta smith that married a john l. nabors in siever county arkansas about 1890 are you related to this marsetta thanks, phillip nabors
Name: Thelma Wood <tanglewood@wmonline.com> Date: 2002-03-09 Comments:
My sister is researching a Lackey connection with our Allen family. She will have fun with your site, Our Lackey family was in NC, then moved with the Allen family to Tn, then further west, Tx, etc.
Name: Christine Gillies <christinegillies@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-03-06 Your Hometown Calgary Comments:
Thanks for posting my escape story from the World Trade Center. Now six months after the tragedy, my husband Craig and I are enjoying a quiet new year in New York City. I am so grateful to all my immediate and extended family for their support and words of comfort in the days and weeks after 9/11. Although rountine has returned to our lives, we are changed forever -- we will never forget the people taken on that day. Peace to you all.
Best,
Christine
Name: Geraldine Smith Meade <dmgm@linkamerica.net> Date: 2002-03-05 Your Hometown Hiawassee, Ga Comments:
I am the daughter of Pauline Needham Smith and Gerard Francis Smith. My father died before I was born of appendecitis. And my mother died when I was 7 years old I would like any information I can get on my father he worked for "Sun Ships in Phila. when he died. His home is in Scranton, Pa. I do not have any information to go with. So any help will be appreciated. Many Thanks...
Name: chrisanne <ctmartin@telusplanet.net> Date: 2002-03-03 Your Hometown Fort McMurray, AB Comments:
I wonder is it possible that you have pictures of the actual oil and what it looks like. My son is doing a project at school where he has to get a picture of five natural resources. One of them has to be oil. I have tried every web site on the internet and not one has a picture of the actual oil. If you could help us we would really appreciate it...Thanks!
Name: Dave Venus <dvenus@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-02-26 Your Hometown Duncan, South Carolina Comments:
Hi!
I am looking for information on Emma Jane Crouse married to (UNKNOWN) Fraser. They had a daughter named Madeling Cushing Fraser. This would have been in Nova Scotia or Massachusetts (or New England area).
Any information or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I am willing to share the information I have.
Thanks!
Dave Venus
Name: Ken Warawa <warawa_kb@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-02-26 Your Hometown Lac la Biche, AB, Canada Comments:
Each individual is a part of something Greater.
Name: Beth Budlong DuBois <DUBOISBM@AOL.COM> Date: 2002-02-19 Your Hometown Rochester,N.H. Comments:
I am trying to locate b. Mable Theola Smith dau. Thomas Smith She was born in Greensboro, Maryland and is my grandmother. Great site!
Name: Taylor Fraser <nrg156@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-02-18 Your Hometown Tonawanda,NY Comments:
I would like to thank the Individuals involved in this site. it is very informative and full of very good documentation on the present names. I have been researching my ancestry and am finding all these sites very helpful. I only wished Id new of these sites sooner in my life. I am very grateful for the hard work to keep and maintain them for our use in the rituals of ancestry search. Thank you
Name: Mary (M.A) <sunshine@wic.net> Date: 2002-02-17 Your Hometown Grand Junction, CO. Comments:
I am the off-spring of Robert B. Cooper and Mildred Crawley.Have been searching for the Cooper family for years. No luck till now and with the internet I have found names of this large family but still no living relatives. I do have a picture of my parents. I celebrated my 79th birthday 02-16-02 so I really don't have much time to get all this information together for my family.
Hope to hear from you soon. Sincerly, Agnes M.Dunn Entries 6183-RootsWeb.com
Name: Karen <gogoflutterby@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-02-16 Your Hometown Vancouver via Montreal Comments:
We have just started to study our Smith family tree. We are in search of our father, John Nicholas Smith born Feb 9,1932 in Montreal. Parents John Alfred & Jesse Smith of Montreal(MacKayville). Sister Eva, brothers George and Alfred. Married Maude Stephens in April 1954. We have no other information to follow. We would appreciate any guidance that fellow Smith's may offer. Your work is amazing and inspiring. Thank You for the opportunity to explore!
Name: Pat Whitley <pwwcltd@aol.com> Date: 2002-02-13 Your Hometown Odessa Texas Comments:
Don nice to see pictures of the patch in other parts of the world
Name: Jackie <luxfarms@citlink.net> Date: 2002-02-06 Your Hometown Crossville,Tn Comments:
I am just starting to look up My family ancestry. My G.grandfather, and G. grandmother are both Peak's. They were from Paduach, Ky. then later moved to Mississippi.I will be back to visit again.
Name: Bob Goltz <goltzb@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-02-02 Your Hometown Red Deer Comments:
Hi,
I came across your site quite by accident, but having worked in the oilfield for 22 years I really enjoyed the pictures. I look forward to coming back and seeing what you have in the future.
Name: Dale Lung <cdlsk@sk.sympatico.ca> Date: 2002-01-31 Your Hometown Wakaw, Sask Comments:
It was nice to look at all of your pictures of the Arctic. I only spent 1970 and pqrt of 1971 in the Arctic, having passed through Rea Point a few times while heading for Dumbell Dome and back to Edmonton. I loved the arctic and would like to go back up there to work, but I can't track down anyone who could put me in contact with a company doing work there now.
Again thanks for the memories.
Name: Richard Graham <rgraha2@msn.com> Date: 2002-01-30 Your Hometown Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Comments:
Am seeking information on a Flora Bethune who was married to John Bethune and lived for a time lived in the Shelburne area of Nova Scotia. Flora's maiden name may have been Baton. This family appears to have moved from the Shelburne area as no record of death in the area has been found by me. John and Flora had a daughter, Catherine who married into my MacKay line. It is believed that they immigrated from the Sutherlandshire area of Scotland. If you can see any possible links I would appreceiate hearing from you. It's possible they may have immigrated around 1816.
Thanks in advance for your consideration.
Regards, Richard Graham, 4th great-grandson of John & Flora
Name: James E. Smith <jsmith@staugcondo.com> Date: 2002-01-19 Your Hometown St.Augustine,Fl. Comments:
Just another Smith looking for folks on lower Simpson creek,Harrison county,W.V.
Related to the Smithville bunch.
Great site,
Jim
Name: Norma Karpman <nkarpman@attbicom> Date: 2002-01-04 Your Hometown Bedford Texas Comments:
Very interesting
Name: sarah smith <wolffie_18413@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-12-31 Your Hometown clifford pa Comments:
Hi,
I was just on the internet looking up family trees and stumbled upon your web site. I was struck by how much my husband, Bill, looks like the young man in the picture. Strong jaw lines and their faces are the same shape. Bill is a very handsome man too. I'm not sure if we are at all related but I just wanted to say hi.
There is another Don Smith in the Clifford area. He is a real nice guy.
Well hope you have a great 2002.
Sarah Smith
P.S. I have a joke for you. I work for Fleet Bank and when on the phone with a customer whose last name was Jones he said to me. " Do you know why there are so many Smiths and Jones?" I said "No, why?" He said it is because Adam was a Jones and Eve was a Smith. Ha Ha.
Hope you enjoyed the joke.
Name: Cindy Mefford <bmefford@tnns.net> Date: 2001-12-27 Your Hometown Fayetteville Tn Comments:
I am looking for Rheuben Lackey. He married an Elizabeth Taylor. They were in Lincoln County Tn in the 1860's. Possibly around 1864.
Name: Ron Lackie <sillyfoxx@videotron.ca> Date: 2001-12-23 URL of your Homepage http://www.ancestry.com/oft/main.asp Comments:
I am working on the Burchill family tree right now. Burchill is my Mothers maiden name. I shall return..............To the Lackie/Lackey side it looks like you have a nice site, thank you.
Name: christopher smith <chrissmithtoronto@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-12-20 Your Hometown canada Comments:
so many beautiful memories
Name: Samantha Swift <princess13234> Date: 2001-12-15 Your Hometown Cape Coral Comments:
its a wonder ful site and if ever need more info i would refer to it again
Name: Bruce D. Allcorn <poltopol@bellsouth.net> Date: 2001-12-11 Your Hometown Mississippi Comments:
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Name: Joyce Williams <ginschu@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-11-30 Your Hometown Royse City,Tx. Comments:
i'm sorry push a wrong button. I love the way you have this site. I look in small spot on theSmith'sy mother was a SmithOn her side of the family is Smith,Flannagan,Green, Laduke,and O'Reily.and they lived in New York.Around Cooperstown.I'm not so smart to do something like this ,so good luck.
Name: Tom Frook <tfrook@shaw.ca> Date: 2001-11-19 Your Hometown CYXE Comments:
Spent many years with PanArctic, radio operator at Zeus, then Rea Point, moving to Resolute Bay with Kenn Borek Air about two months before C-FPAB impaced at Rea Point. Really enjoyed the photos, what a good time we used to have. Remember Sam McKinley, Don Connelly, what a crew. Keep it up.
Name: Jeff Sutton <nusangeo@storm.ca> Date: 2001-11-08 Your Hometown YOW Comments:
Hi - enjoyed your photos! I was up in that part of the world in 1983 when I did a trafficability study for the sesmic crew cat trains near Lougheed Island. I was lucky enough to spend many months all over the Arctic, Greenland and Alaskz over 10 years in support of drilling and exploration. My specialty was radar image interpretation for Dome and other companies. Looks like you enjoyed yourself up there!
Best Regards!
Name: Chris Smith <csts69@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-11-07 Your Hometown Ithaca, MI Comments:
Smiths there are way too many
Name: William Drayton Smith <dsmith2415@aol.com> Date: 2001-11-04 Your Hometown Durham, North Carolina Comments:
Didn't know if I was related or not if i am would love to know
Name: bradford smith <starbrad@msn.com> Date: 2001-10-31 Your Hometown bedford kentucky Comments:
I am the great great great grandson of harley barley smith from henry county
.he was married to an indian known as white dovealso known as margeret downs.
my grandfathers name is orville smith, magistrate of trimble county kentucky and as for my father he is orville wayne smith and he owns a farm eqpt. bisuness in lagrange ky and is almost ready to pass it on to me I would be ever so grateful if you could help me find out more about my family history and the (KENTUCKY) SMITH FAMILY TREE. thank you: E MAIL ME AT starbrad@msn.com
Name: Christopher A. Levingston <caleving@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-10-30 Your Hometown Orange, Tx Comments:
I am the son of Melvin Dudley Levingston and Linda Ann (Lackey) Levingston.
My mother Linda is the daughter of William Otis Lackey and Etta (Smith) Lackey
Name: Joyce Ann Hardy <wfhardy@libby.org> Date: 2001-10-22 Your Hometown San Diego, CA Comments:
My grandfather, Willard Bethune was raised in Paris, Arkansas. I am very interested in the Bethune family and am planning a trip to Scotland to research his family there.
I would appreciate any information regarding his family. Please send any corresponsence to wfhardy@libby.org
Thank you very much. Joyce Ann Hardy
Name: Rodolfo Marin <rrmarinro@aol.com> Date: 2001-10-12 Your Hometown Venezuela Comments:
Beautiful photos.
Name: Melissa Ryan <shy_girl_29@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-10-09 Your Hometown Thompson Manitoba Comments:
I know the Smith Family here in Thompson Manitoba I have been close with the family for atleast 10 years...this is the best family web site that i have seen before keep up the good work and the pictures of both of the weddings are great
Name: Graeme Faris <graeme_faris@telus.net> Date: 2001-10-05 Your Hometown Courtenay BC Comments:
Came upon your page tonight while noodling around the Google image site.
Brought back lots of memories. I worked for United Geophysical from 1973 to 1975 mostly on Bathurst and Melville but we did pass through Bent Horn while the well was being drilled. Surveyed for the first year and then worked on a drill rig (seismic) for the rest of the time. Most of my pictures are of life in a mobile seismic camp. Miss the arctic but I don't miss 12 hour days in a Nodwell.
Anyway it was good to see what transpired after I left. Graeme Faris
Name: David Quentin Peck <davidqpeck@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-10-05 Your Hometown Yates Center, Ks. 66783 URL of your Homepage genealogy.com Comments:
Israel Harris Peck was the older brother of my great, great grandfather,
George A. Peck. Israel Peck married Violet Smith in Monroe Twp, Licking Co,
Ohio on October 14, 1841. She is said to have come from Luzerne Co., Pa. and
was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Smith who came to Ohio in Fall 1832.
Name: Rick Fraser <r-bfraser@scbglobal.net> Date: 2001-10-01 Your Hometown Texas Comments:
I'am looking for information on Mordicia Fraser/Frazer/Frazier/Frasher.He is my Greatgrandfather.I have information of him being on record of being in S.C.in 1830,and in 1840Hamilton Co. Ill.
Any information would be of great help.
Hi to all the Fraser's in the world.
Good site.
Name: Greg Wall <NIL> Date: 2001-09-29 Your Hometown Red Deer, AB ( Fillmore,Sk.) Comments:
I've moved rigs in S.E. Sask., all over Alberta, Northern B.C., and the Northwest territories, enjoyed your pictures and hope to see more!
Name: Jackie Depper (Coquet) <djdepper@home.com> Date: 2001-09-26 Your Hometown Saskatoon, SK Canada Comments:
Scott I was totally surprized to find this websit. When I looked at your wedding pictures I recognized people in there. Like my mom and grandpa. Nice pictures. Sorry that we didn't make it after all Tanner was just 1 and I was pregnant with Brianna and Don had no job at the time. I'm sure mom or dad told you and you'd understand. Well congratulations on the baby coming up and hope to hear from you.
Jackie
Name: Linda Lackey Campbell <TandL@ntelos.net> Date: 2001-09-24 Your Hometown Virginia Comments:
Don,
Your website is really great. Alot of good information. Unsure if any of it pertains to my family history. I am just getting starting on trying to look up any information. My dad is Frank C. Lackey (still living). His dad and mom are Roy E. Lackey and Mary Madgeleen Lackey (both deceased). Roy E. Lackey parents were Henry Crawford Lackey and Nora Ann Lackey. Mary's parents were Will and Ira Perdue. I have several relatives that are still living: Eldrid L. Lackey, Shirley Lackey, Elmer Lackey, Cecil Lackey, Leslie Lackey, and Beatrice Lackey Setliff. These relatives are getting on up in age. They are not a lot of help. I was told that my ancestors originated from Ireland. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
Thanks for any help...
Linda Lackey Campbell
Name: Margaret Blissett nee Fraser <blissett1@supanet.com> Date: 2001-09-09 Your Hometown Offord Darcy, St. Neots, Cambs. England Comments:
Just having a look at your Fraser names - my ancestors from Gillingham/Dover (Kent)Surrey, I am originally from Warwickshire, England.
Name: Patricia Bennetts <trishabennetts@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-09-05 Your Hometown BRISBANE QLD AUSTRALIA Comments:
I AM CURRENTLY TRYING TO TRACE THE fAMILY hISTORY OF MY Grandfather Walter Nelson Smith,his father was Frederick Kershaw Smith who married Edith Ellen Wright. Their childrens names are Walter, Edith, Rose, Florence and Ethel. Rose and Florence were sent from England to Canada to stay with Fredericks sister Rose in the early 1900's.
Name: wesley allen fraser jr <wesruth@aol.com> Date: 2001-09-04 Your Hometown Biddeford Pool Maine Comments:
The last positive connection in my Fraser line is great grandfather Wesley John Fraser who was born in Pennsylvania in the 1800's, lived in West Virginia, Ohio and Iowa before his death in 1880's
Name: Adrian and Tracy <arf@direct.ca> Date: 2001-09-03 Your Hometown Vancouver, BC Comments:
Just came back from Brookmere, enjoyed your pix!!
Name: Taryn Smith <200142720@ctech.ac.za.> Date: 2001-09-03 Your Hometown Cape Town URL of your Homepage - Comments:
I tried to contact you on your web page, but it didn't work. I wonder if you know anything about a new family of Smiths. We have a story that goes back 4 generations when our Smith line was created. Apparently one of my grandfathers worked for royalty, but he stole the jewls and moved to S.A. where he bought a farm and changed his name to Smith. (because the name is so common)
The story has got an air of reality as the farm was sold by my grandfather's father recently. Do you know anything about the above, I would love to know what our family's first surname was and where I come from...
Name: Scott LaRue <slarue@swwcinc.com> Date: 2001-08-30 Your Hometown Terlton, Oklahoma Comments:
I have enjoyed your visual history of your time spent in remote parts of Canada. I know it must have been hard to be away from your family, but what a wonderful place to be. Great work and thanks for sharing it with us.
Name: John A. Mehring <jamehring@onemain.com> Date: 2001-08-21 Your Hometown Littlestown, Adams Co, PA URL of your Homepage ? Comments:
My Mother-Anna Laura Smith; b. 1907 between Narrows & Midway, Giles Co., VA.
Belongs to VA Southwestern Smith's: dau. of John Robert (1877-1949) & Effie MAUDE Bouldin (1888-199-); gddau. John W (1837 Franklin Co., VA; m. 3-30-1858 Floyd Co., VA, SARAH A. Bowers (b. 1835 Roanoke Co., VA, dau. David & Nancy Bowers); gt.gddau. Luke (b. ca. 1816 of Franklin Co., VA) & Nancy (Polly) NAFE
dau. of Jacob Naffe); 2nd gt.gddau. Philemon (b. 11-29-1756 (Twin) Lunenburg Co., VA.; m. 2-10-1795 Franklin Co., VA) & Nancy Abshire (dau. of (?)Luke Abshire, bro. of Edward Abshire; d. 1822 & Diana Short; 3rd gt.gddau. of Col.
John Smith & Susannah Raison (Ranson) of Lunenburg Co., VA.; 4th gt.gddau.
of Rev. Guy Smith; b. ca. 1675 Ely, County Cambridgeshire, England & ------
Perrin..
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John A. Mehring (1-717-642-8153)
28 Tree Top Trail, Fairfield, PA 17320-8237
E-MAIL: jamehring@onemain.com imi jamehring@onemain.com..
Name: Dolores Ruth Coles <RColes1945@aol.com> Date: 2001-08-15 Your Hometown Hemet, California Comments:
I'm new at sending files by E-mail. When I find out how I will send
my Lake files.
Name: Winona Fraser <heavens_angel170@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-08-12 Your Hometown Grandview Comments:
Hi i am a 18 yr old girl just wondering about my family history. both of my grandparents are died my grandmother just past away this summer and i never really talk to her about my great grandparents. i was just wonderin gif anyone could help mefound out a little more about my grandfather Warren Fraser. if there is anything about him or my family please e mail me thank you very much!
Name: Gerald Anthony Smith Jr. <jjerryyss@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-08-07 Your Hometown Americus, GA 31709 URL of your Homepage geocities.com/jjerryyss/mypage.html Comments:
My greatgrandfather, A.W. Smith came from Oconee county in Georgia and moved to Americus around 1915. His sons were Joseph Harrison, Broughton, Hoke, John, and one I only knew as uncle Bully. My grandfather, Joseph Harrison Smith married Mildred Booker whoes mother was a Stephens and Houston. Sam Houston was her great uncle. Let me know if you can link any of this to your family. Thanks, Jerry Smith
Name: R Peck <rjpeck4@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-08-06 Your Hometown Logan UT Comments:
I have a lot of Peck Ancestry going back to Joseph Peck SR., b 1587 in England but don't recognize any of the names in your index.
Name: Dave Boychuk <reachdb@home.com> Date: 2001-08-05 Your Hometown Calgary Comments:
Don,
This is an amazing portfolio you've managed to put together and post. I was on your crew in the Arctic with you at Desbarates Straits. I was also in Rea Point, Noice Penn and Drake during my time in the Arctic. Wow, talk about reliving some old memoriesafter seeing these. Trying to describe some of the conditions to anyone who never worked up there was difficult to say the least. If you don't mind, I'll direct them to your site for a look.
Great Job on your site and Good Luck with your future posts!
Name: Josh Woodward <jiwoodward_ca@yahoo.ca> Date: 2001-07-25 Your Hometown Stoughton, SK Comments:
Very interesting...looking forward to more!
Name: Tara Belland <tbella80@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-07-25 Your Hometown Sudbury, Ontario Comments:
I was just surfing the net and came upon your site, very interesting and it was great to know that there are other Belland's around!
Name: John Baglieri <jbaglieri@quantum-qtr.com> Date: 2001-07-20 Your Hometown Toronto Comments:
Worked for Bertram Drilling - 1976-1978
Spent most of that time at Rea Point, NWT
The whole crew had food poison - late September '76
Airliner was grounded from extensive winter blow out - two Stewardesses were grounded too!!
Had a NWT license plate, Rea Point zippo, NWT sickers stolen - (hardship!)
On the crew that blew up a sump - almost died
Two camp dogs fought in my truck - almost died
Five camp dogs suckered into a 'Bitch in heat wolf'- they almost died (I never knew what happened to those dogs after that)
Name: nephew chris <chrissmithtoronto@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-07-20 Your Hometown montreal Comments:
Great work uncle keep it up...if you need any thing from me just e
love chris
Name: Winston Smith <winnmary@simplynet.net> Date: 2001-07-12 Your Hometown Eunice, LA Comments:
Surfing the net and found your page. I have a cousin named Donald Smith. Wonder if we are related? Most of my cousins live in Louisiana, St. Landry Parish!
Name: Mike Montejano <xdruggie@earthlink.net> Date: 2001-07-08 Your Hometown El Centro Ca Comments:
I am a descendant of a line of peck's that I can trace back to Hawkins county Tn. Jesse Peck b. 1836. I am new to looking this stuff up and I enjoyed you page. Thanks.
Name: Wayne Lackey <fsu32303@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-06-16 Your Hometown Munford , Alabama Comments:
Great Website. I never knew there were so many Lackey's around.
Name: Moira Stevenson nee Beaton <moira@stevenson99.fslife.co.uk> Date: 2001-06-14 Your Hometown Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK Comments:
I enjoyed visiting your site. I have only begun to trace my ancestors. My father was a Beaton whose grandfather came from Skye. He was named Malcolm Beaton but HIS father was Alexander Bethune who married Christian MacLeod in Snizort Parish, Isle of Skye around the 1820's. I have only traced one other child, Marion who was born in 1825. Its a fascinating subject and you appear to have done such a lot. I am stuck now but will press on.
Name: MARY ELIZABETH SMITH <OLEGIRLNOW@AOL.COM> Date: 2001-06-09 Your Hometown COOLEEMEE, NC Comments:
SOOOOOO MANY SMITHS, SOOOO LITTLE TIME
Name: Ken Chapman <KDCHAPMA@Victoria1.gov.bc.ca> Date: 2001-06-06 Comments:
Don; Thanks for the pics and commentary. I enjoyed them very much. Having been to Inuvik in the summer of 2000 I yearn to head north again. To the NWT this time. The vastness and uninterrupted beauty (and uninhabited) impressed me the most. We do live on a beautiful planet. See you soon.
Name: Sharron Mary Lackey <sharronlackey@eircom.net> Date: 2001-06-05 Your Hometown Co Kilkenny Comments:
Loved the site!
My grandfather was Robert Lackey b1893 Kilkenny, Ireland
His father was George Lackey also born in Kilkenny
and his father was Robert Lackey again born in Kilkenny
and his father was Robert Lackey b1770-d 17th December 1837 aged 67
Most of this information I have got from grave headstones.
Anyone who thinks they may be related, I would be glad to hear from you
Sharron Mary Lackey
sharronlackey@eircom.net
Name: carol roberts <carol3cs@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-06-02 Comments:
Dear Don...Don Labossiere here....with Carol...noting the rather extensive work you have done...it is amazing and we thank you for it...truly!
My only comment is on the family surname...it is Labossiere ... I will also send you a photo for the record....I need to be seen to be appreciated...or so Carol tells me. (Isn't she the teller of all truths?)
If you find time to come visit West Vancouver Carol could use your help with her computer...it is Saturday night and I am here trying to solve her hard drive problems...take that for what you will.Thanks again...aon and carol
Name: Ken Wiebe <kwiebe@fathers.bc.ca> Date: 2001-05-31 Your Hometown Victoria BC URL of your Homepage http://www.fathers.bc.ca Comments:
Hello;
Interesting website. A family tree diagram would sure help figure out who is related to who, and how.
I have some old photos of my great-grandparents (Joseph Alexander BELLAND and Omerine Celoise PELLTIER. If you are interested, I can scan them and e-mail them to you.
Name: Jill Hays <j.hays@handleman.com> Date: 2001-05-28 Your Hometown Walled Lake, MI Comments:
Hello! I am just beginning my adventure into my ancestry. My Greatgrandparents Frederick and Christina Fraser immigrated here in the early 1900's (Christina stepped thru Ellis Island in 1923). I am told that Frederick was one of 12 children born in Fraserborough Scotland. I know of John and Peter but the remaining 9 siblings are a mystery. If anyone has any info to share I would love it! I know that many of the siblings immigrated far and wide including Canada, Africa, and Australia...
Name: Jonathan Warawa <warawa@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-05-21 Your Hometown Abbotsford, BC Comments:
Hi there! I am listed on your site, and have given you some info in the past. I am wondering if you have an output in a family tree format? I would also love to help you fill in any gaps that I can.
Jon
Name: zeeshan afzal <xeeshan123@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-05-17 Your Hometown islamabad,pakistan Comments:
don,
its a wonderful site.
everyone has to visit here.
Name: C.Ross <czz@telusplanet.net> Date: 2001-05-14 Your Hometown Calgary Comments:
Glad to hear from you . Keep up the good work.
Name: Eric Belland <ebelland57@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-05-11 Your Hometown Escanaba, Michigan Comments:
Wow, I have never known anyone else with the same last name as I until today. Thanks
Name: Al Hasley <ahasley@home.com> Date: 2001-05-09 Your Hometown West Vancouver, BC Comments:
You have done an outstanding job. It's interesting to anybody who enjoys reading about personal history.
Name: Cathy Syddall <cathysyddall@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-05-07 Your Hometown seattle, WA Comments:
I am impressed with your web site. It was well thought out. I am looking for any information on Dorse or Dorce Lackey, born in North Carolina around 1906. He married an Annie Rae Mull around 1930. He died in the 50's or 60's.
Thank You very much,
Cathy Syddall
Name: Bob Johnson <nbjohns@home.com> Date: 2001-04-29 Your Hometown Calgary Comments:
Don, I got to visit this page for the first time this weekend, and I must say it brought back many fond memories. Like you, I worked for Panarctic for a lot of years (1972 through the ending in 1986). Even the shot of old unit 211 brought back smiles.
Great job...thanks for taking the effort
Name: Lyndall Smith <lyndallsmith_2000@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-04-25 Your Hometown coonamble Comments:
I'm 12 years old and I want to know about my family tree. I've looked just about everywhere and none of the websites on this internet is helping me. So if you come from William and Harriet Smith tree please contact me from the above address. I know there is probably a million smith's out there but these one's are special,so if you know them or are relies please contact me because I'd love to hear from you. Just for your infirmation they came the district area Coonamble
a small country town!
Name: Carol Jean Fraser Dykes <cjdykes@bellsouth.net> Date: 2001-04-21 Your Hometown West Monroe,Louisiana URL of your Homepage n/a Comments:
Daughter of Julius Wareen Fraser Born 1-21-1882 Rye Beach New Hampshire.
Name: Adam Ashurst <adam_ashurst@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-04-21 Your Hometown North Vancouver Comments:
First time visitor.
Name: Gillian Day (Nee Bethune) <egday@tpg.com.au> Date: 2001-04-20 Your Hometown Wonthaggi, australia URL of your Homepage N/A Comments:
Was interseted to read the info on Bethune. I am descended from a Norman Bethune married to a Marion Sarah McLeod. Marion (then a wdiow)and a grown up family came to Australia on the Hercules in 1952. I have not been able to connect back to the Bethunes in Skye and I keep hoping that one day I will find the link.
Gillian
Name: Bernice + Fred Lorenzen <lgw@telusplanet.net> Date: 2001-04-15 Your Hometown Grimshaw, Alberta Comments:
Did you have info. and picures of the Oil Patch of Peace River\Mackenzie River area? We are attempting to put together a book on the Oil Patch of Northern Alberta. More specifically a Social History of the People who were there throughout the years.It is difficult to find pictures of that era, I guess that not too many carried a camera. We also need personal stories.
Your pictures are fantastic!!!!! Thank you
Name: Christine Belland <christinebelland@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-04-13 Your Hometown St.Paul AB Comments:
Thanks to you I have been able to find the Belland family history, and believe me that searching for a name that changes every time you look for it can cause a lot of fustration. Thanks alot.
Name: Thomas Gilbert <tompri@webkorner.com> Date: 2001-04-13 Your Hometown Mooresville, N. C. 28115 Comments:
My great=grndfather was Thomas Preston Lackey. He died in 1934. He and his wife (Margaret "Maggie" Stamper Lackey - d. 1929) lived and are buried in Stony Point, N. C. My only question is the name of Maggie's father. High doubts that anyone would know. Have hunted and hunted.
Name: Scott Bethune <scottdb@telusplanet.net> Date: 2001-04-10 Your Hometown Calgary (previous Wainwright)/Alberta Comments:
he there - great site - want to trade family info's - I'll trade a complete one of mine (bethune/mclean/lindber/mellesmoen) for a complete one of yours.....
Name: Betty White Morgan <Bettylm@msn.com> Date: 2001-04-03 Your Hometown Salem, OR Comments:
Looking for my lost Eleanor Lackey, but alas you do not have her. A nice site you have tho. Betty
Name: Amanda Cook <amanda_c93@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-04-01 Your Hometown Georgia Comments:
Seraching for the family of Alexander (A. A. )Fraser and wife Julia Meadows Fraser. Last "seen" in the 1900 Census in Laurens Co., GA. Can't get any farther back! Thanks for letting me look at your research!
Name: Lila <lilajudd@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-03-26 Your Hometown Grande Prairie, Alberta Comments:
Don:
I have enjoyed looking at your web site. My cousin Roy Mitchell suggested that I check it out. I understand you and Roy are good fiends.
Great pitures but I didn't have time to look at all of them. I'm going to get Roy over and we'll check out your web site together.
Great job and good luck with your family tree search.
Name: john newton <newton@cfc.dnd.ca> Date: 2001-03-23 Your Hometown halifax Comments:
Don
I am a naval officer drafting a research paper on changes to arctic shipping as a result of changes to the arctic ice regime. Part of the subject reflects on past and future resource exploitation in the arctic basin. I am very interested in obtaining photographs of the Bent Horn facility, rig or resupply. I enjoyed your site, and as a former geologist with Canadian Hunter, the whole subject of the arctic and oil and mineral exploration interests me considerably.
Lieutenant Commander John Newton
Canadian Forces Command and Staff College
Toronto, ON M5M 3H9
416 952-1931
newton@cfc.dnd.ca
Name: Carol Inscho Falaro <cpfalaro2nd@cs.com> Date: 2001-03-21 Your Hometown Watervliet, NY Comments:
Just was wondering who is the Inco?
Name: Cynthia Belland <marsh@pathwaynet.com> Date: 2001-03-20 Your Hometown Lakeview Comments:
I hope that you all may be some of my long lost family. cindy
Name: Dave Blackman <jdblkmn@bellsouth.net> Date: 2001-03-18 Your Hometown New Orleans (Slidell) LA Comments:
Oh boy! I only had to look at a few pictures to remind me why I went offshore 20 years ago! I'm still makin'hole, in the the Gulf of Mexico now. I've worked Texas , Oklahoma, ofshore California and now the gulf. you've built a great site. I'll come back and check it all out when I have the time.
Thanks
Name: Chris Alexander <chrisa@coakwell.com> Date: 2001-03-12 Your Hometown High River, Alberta Comments:
Hi Don. I worked for PA as well for 11 seasons. My brother Robin worked for you personally, but I think I missed you by a year or two. Lots of memories eh?
Name: Peter Lussier-Figg <swatote@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-03-06 Your Hometown Norfolk,U.K Comments:
Hi,
I've just decided to look into my family history, my Fathers family name is Figg and my Mothers are Smith's. I seem to remember mum saying that her side of the family were related to the Finney's of Scotland????
Anyway, great site, many thanks.
Peter
Name: Roy Emmett <royzone@cwcom.net> Date: 2001-02-20 Your Hometown Watford, Herts., England. Comments:
My mother was Margaret Bethune- CARLYLE (B. Glasgow, 1929). My g-Grandmother,
Margaret Bethune, is a descendant of Donald Bethune and Jane Campbell (or
McIver in Rosshire). Lines of this family can be found in Alness, Dingwall
(my Bethunes have a family plot there in St Clement's Churchyard), Tain, Strathpeffer (Fodderty parish) and Wester-Ross (Applecross- opposite Skye).
A cousin of my mothers (also Margaret Bethune)states that family legend holds that we have our roots in Bethune, Picardy (N.France). We were driven south from the Highlands by the infamous 'Clearances' of the McKenzies and esp. the
Duchess of Sutherland.My G-Grandmother could only speak the 'gallic', a language
intentionally suppressed by the 'Dounhamers' (lowlanders) and English merchant
classes.
Name: Charlie Ross <czz@telusplanet.net> Date: 2001-02-15 Your Hometown Calgary AB Comments:
Don: Enjoyed looking at your site . It was sent to me by Dave Chaudey Will talk to you later thanks Charlie
.
Name: martin c peck <martin@cpeck.freeserve.co.uk> Date: 2001-02-10 Your Hometown dunstable beds u.k. URL of your Homepage u.k. Comments:
none
Name: G.Peck <Gaynormp@juno.com> Date: 2001-02-05 Your Hometown Knoxville ,Tennessee Comments:
Enjoyed,But looks like you are not the Pecks I am connected too.
Name: Karen Lackey Hamm <karen@netease.net> Date: 2001-02-01 Your Hometown Parsons, Tennessee Comments:
I'm trying to locate any information on my great, great grandparents - Robert
Simonton Lackey - born 5/27/1826, married to Susan Elizabeth Martin, born
1834. I know he was a confederate chaplain. Found were Susan is buried -
can't find Robert. This is as far back in my ancestry that I have - if
anyone has info on him or any further back, please email me.
I really enjoyed this site.
Name: Karen Lackey Hamm <karen@netease.net> Date: 2001-02-01 Your Hometown Parsons, Tennessee Comments:
I'm trying to locate any information on my great, great grandparents - Robert
Simonton Lackey - born 5/27/1826, married to Susan Elizabeth Martin, born
1834. I know he was a confederate chaplain. Found were Susan is buried -
can't find Robert. This is as far back in my ancestry that I have - if
anyone has info on him or any further back, please email me.
I really enjoyed this site.
Name: kenny peshlakai <kennycooldude@webtv.net> Date: 2001-01-27 Your Hometown ohio Comments:
Great pictures,I enjoyed all of them.I also roughnecked in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado area in 1989 to 1997. I first started swamping on rig-up trucks and could have been In any of those pictures. Feel free to write back as I am on the search for rig news.Once a roughneck always a roughneck.
Name: Frank Lackey <zerospots@on.aibn.com> Date: 2001-01-21 Your Hometown Leamington, Ont. Comments:
Can't find any connections to my ancestors.
Name: Kenneth Bethune <truth32@aol.com> Date: 2001-01-14 Your Hometown San Antonio, TX URL of your Homepage http://www.upstate.77th.com Comments:
Finding all of this Bethune history that I am totally unaware or unrelated too is kinda of different. I was pretty suprised to come across this at all. I wish I knew more about that line of my history
Name: Elizabeth Ann Smith Deisher <deishergang@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-01-11 Your Hometown Mt.Carmel,IL. Comments:
I am trying to start a family tree on my family which would be the smith's name.
Name: Ruth Campbell <jrcampbell@peoplepc.com> Date: 2001-01-10 Your Hometown Fayetteville Comments:
I am researching Frasers from Canada! Emily Jane McGinnis Collins married to JW. Collins died in Winnipeg with 11 surviving children. I have newspaper clipping with no date/no place and names of surviving children. She came from Ontario to Emerson, Man. in 1881-1909 then moved to Winnipeg. Her daughter Frances Victoria Collins 1st husband was John Griffith Smith. Frances married Isaac Charles Fraser 2nd husband. Any info on these people please help me. Thanks. Ruth
Name: Janette Lackey Switzer <jswitzer@quik.com> Date: 2001-01-04 Your Hometown Kerrville, Texas Comments:
I looked over your list of names but am not sure they are any relation to me. My folks came from Ireland then Illinois. Good luck on your search. Also we have a lot of William Lackeys.
Name: Eisa Borgatti <eborgatti@afd-inc.com> Date: 2001-01-04 Your Hometown New York Comments:
Hi! I am searching for the PECK family of New York, whom I believed moved to South Carolina, possibly in the 1960's or very early 1970's. I was born to a woman on April 11, 1972, whom I believe has this last name. I was told that she is originally from New York, of Lithuanian heritage, blonde, blue eyes, and a high school grad. Her parents and grandparents were from New York, also. It states that my grandfather was 52 years old in 1972 and a turbine supervisor (whatever that may be!). I was born in the South Carolina Baptist Hospital in Columbia, SC and adopted through Catholic Charities of Charleston, SC. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Name: Eleanor <miss_ellie27@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-01-02 Your Hometown The Isle of Man Comments:
It is very helpful for my project on Oil Fields, thank you very much for the pictured and information.
Name: Craig A. Belland <lazycalm@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-12-21 Your Hometown Encinitas, California Comments:
Nice site, I sure hope I can get some information about my surname.
Any other lost Bellands out there?
Name: chrissmith <chrissmithtoronto"hotmail.com> Date: 2000-12-18 Your Hometown sudbury Comments:
some really great work don
Name: Jerry Davis <176jdavis@home.com> Date: 2000-12-09 Your Hometown calgary Comments:
Don,
I stumbled on your webpage while looking for information on Rea Point. I worked with Shell Canada in the late 1970s as an electronics technologist for their survey department. At that time Shell was providing electronic survey systems to monitor ice movement using satellites (precurser to the currently used GPS system). We would load all the equipment into shacks including thermoelectric generators fuelled by propane. I was up there to debug and rectify problems with the electronic hardware in the shacks.
It was SO GREAT to see the pictures you posted on this site. It really brought back a lot of memories. I flew in some of the helicopters shown, and am pretty sure that Sam the dog was the mascot at Hoodoo Dome on Ellef Ringnes Island when we were there in 1978(?). He got into the baked Alaska the cook had put out on the roof to keep frozen and the scene of the cook chasing the dog with a broom was like something out of a cartoon. Anyway, I would be interested in receiving notification of your Chapter 4 postings when they become available. Once again, thanks for the memories and congratulations for a very good job of putting this together. --JD
Name: David Astell <dastell@cableinet.co.uk> Date: 2000-12-09 Your Hometown Liverpool / England Comments:
An excellent site....found by pure chance whilst looking for the name Astell keep up the good work...
Name: jeff clark <sclark@cyberport.com> Date: 2000-12-06 Your Hometown san juan county new mexico Comments:
been there done that. interesting pictures.
Name: Susan Morgan <suedanmorgan@netscape.net> Date: 2000-11-23 Your Hometown Ottawa, Ontario Comments:
I can only be greatfull that with Alan as a brother-in-law that I have no Smith blood in me, ha ha!!! No, realy Don you did a great job. That picture of your mom with the grandchildren is a great tribute to a wonderful lady who will always be missed, even if it dose remind us of how geekey Christa was when she was young.
Name: Linda Bethune Addlesperger <addles@mindspring.com> Date: 2000-11-15 Your Hometown Midwest City, Oklahoma Comments:
I am trying to complete my family tree. The name is Beaton/Bethune. They came to North Carolina, USA from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. My gggggrandfather is Martin Bethune, Born 1740 in Scotland. My gggggrandmother is Barbara Urrquhart, Born 1745 in Scotland. They were married 1766 in Scotland. I believe that they came to the USA before 1774. They lived in Cumberland County in North Carolina. They had five children: John, Lauchlin, Margaret, Sarah and Daniel. I am a decendent to there son John who married Cherry Little. Can anybody give me anymore history on my family? My grandmother said that Martin bethune's father is named Colin. I can't find the connection to the relaatives on the Isle of Skye. I would also like to know who the parents are for Barbara Urquhart. My grandmother said that she had a "title" of "Lady Barbara Urquhart".
Name: VICTORIA SMITH <NEGATIVE@TESCO.NET> Date: 2000-11-14 Your Hometown CHARD,SOMERSET Comments:
I have just begun to research my family tree. Iam looking for information on Archibold Smith who married Marget Meek,and had a son called Stanley john in about 1919.
Name: CATHY HARRIS <Cathy-Stephen@harris59.fsnet.co.uk> Date: 2000-10-27 Your Hometown Leyland, Lancashire Comments:
I found your pages very interesting. I am just starting to research my family tree and I know my great grandmother's maiden name was Margaret Smith and she lived in Bamber Bridge near Preston and so I was interested in the Preston record you have of Smith.
Name: Christine Belland <christinebelland@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-10-23 Your Hometown St.Paul AB Canada Comments:
Looks good so far keep up the good work.
Name: Dorothy Donna Parker <parkerno1@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-10-20 Your Hometown Duncan, BC, Canada Comments:
I had no idea this information was on the net. I am Meal Roger and Dorothy Parker's daughter. I assume you obtained this information through the Lackey's? You may contact me anytime at my E-mail address.
Name: Boye Skudstrup <boye@post12.tele.dk> Date: 2000-10-19 Your Hometown 8900 Randers, Denmark Comments:
2000.10.19 ok!
Name: Christoper Peck <pkristofer@cs.com> Date: 2000-10-19 Your Hometown Cambride Comments:
Hi well i was just surfing around trying to find out the meaning of my surname, Peck, and i found your site which is great well done.
Name: clinton matthew lackey <clacley573@aol.com> Date: 2000-10-08 Your Hometown hacienda heights ca. Comments:
just surfin around found some lackey's in your family.
Name: Jim LaBossiere <jllaboss@uniserve.com> Date: 2000-10-02 Your Hometown Kitimat B.C. URL of your Homepage sno.net Comments:
Don:
Great home page. I enjoyed the Artic photos.
Well done.
Jim LaBossiere
Name: billie jo smith <rolliepollie81@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-09-25 Your Hometown Ridgecrest Comments:
i dont know where to begin. i need some help finding my sister Joann's dad.
his name was Kenneth wayne Smith. he was born in aug 22 1950. he died in jan 18
1983. if you could please help in any way i would be thankful.
billie jo smith
Name: christa <christahyshka@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-09-25 Your Hometown hell................... gillim Comments:
hi uncle,hows it going,dad sent family home page to me . It great thanks for reminding me what a geek i was.......lol. drop me a line sometime at christahyshka@hotmail.com...ok.......bye chris
Name: Pat <tish@cablelan.net> Date: 2000-09-21 Your Hometown Chase Comments:
How neat to find someone from Chase on the Genealogy page!
Your page is lovely and easy to navigate in.
Pat
Name: Tina Moore (formaly Smith) <garry_moore_2000@yahoo.com> Date: 2000-09-17 Your Hometown Uckfield England Comments:
Hi Don
Great site, I am trying to trace my family tree.
All I have todate is my father Keneth Alexanda Smith born 1919 in West Ham London alive, his brother Frank Stanley Smith born 1915 West Ham London whereabouts not known, their father Frank Smith middle name maybe George ?
imigrated to Canada sometime before 1915 worked for or on the Candian Pacific Railway, married in Canada possibly to a Canadian indian called Florance Nevill
who lived in Saskatoon, Saskatewan, later move to England and had a family.
If you can help in anyway I would be most grateful.
regards
Tina
Name: Lloyd Dronen <lloyd.d@petas.no> Date: 2000-09-15 Comments:
Great to see your photos! I worked for a year in the Arctic (ca. 1980), while I was with Schlumberger of Canada. What a nostalgic trip back!
Thanks for reviving some rare memories!
I'm from Vancouver, BC. Have lived here in Bergen, Norway for many years.
Name: Colin Baumgartner <cbvb@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-09-12 Your Hometown Estevan Sk Comments:
Don I just wanted to say that I extremely enjoyed all of your oilfield related pictures. Myself I am in Petroleum Engineering student in Regina, and whenever I see anything oilfield related I like to stop and appreciate it.
Thanks
Colin
Name: Sharon Kislingbury <kislingbury@cybertrails.com> Date: 2000-09-09 Your Hometown Winslow, Arizona Comments:
Hi I would like to know how the Peck family fits into your heritage? I am a cescendent of Charles Fellows Peck b.1853 m. Mary E Whitney b. 1851 d.1925. I have no information on Charles F Peck's parents unless his father was Scottoway Peck. Charles and Mary had at least one son. John Frank Peck b. 1875 d. 1967. Would love any information you might have. Thanks and very nice site, Sharon
Name: dean peck <deanuk_2000_uk@yahoo.com> Date: 2000-08-31 Your Hometown ashford,kent england Comments:
I have just started tracing my family tree peck i will keep you informed of any information i find that may help you.
Name: Debra Smith <dsmith13@san.rr.com> Date: 2000-08-29 Your Hometown San Diego California Comments:
Stopped in to visit to see if any relation. My maiden name & married name are Smith. My relatives from the eastern shore of Maryland, my husband's from Oklahoma. Very nice job with pictures & research. Your family is very blessed to have someone like you to put this together.
Name: MRS M.E.Smith <smithme33@webtv,net> Date: 2000-08-25 Comments:
Thought this Smith line might be part of ours,
We too have a cousin Donald Smith who has traced back the Smith family line to Virginia, 1795 Starting with Henry Smith. We do not know his parents names or where they were from. It was thought that his father was a Francis.
What a Great job you have done.
Name: Leisa Denington <rayspannerman@aol.com> Date: 2000-08-21 Your Hometown Fresno,ca URL of your Homepage pappy enterprises new image plus Comments:
first time checking this out I hope that you can help me and I will do the same for you i will get more info from my family and send it to you. I hope to hear from you soon..
Name: L. Deane Smith <deane@cpa-forensic.com> Date: 2000-08-20 Your Hometown Kaysville, UT Comments:
I am currently looking for information on Dr. George Smyth UEL and his brother Patrick UEL (1760-1820) and Patrick's son William Bayard Smyth of Kingston, Ontario. I am also most interested in Dr. George's son Terence who died as a relatively young man following the American Revolutionary War.
Name: Alan, your brother <aksmith50@mb.sympatico.ca> Date: 2000-08-16 Your Hometown Thompson, Manitoba Comments:
These were very nice pictures and a lot of work went into this and
very informative.
Alan and Karen
Name: Diane Akenhead <tomdi87@hotmail.com.au> Date: 2000-08-15 Your Hometown Queensland. Australia Comments:
Hi There!,
It seems that I cannot help you nor can you help me. I am looking for a lead of a John Smith born in London England, marrying a Rebecca Parrott on 26 April 1857. John Smith's father was James Smith. Like looking for a needle in a haystack.... Any way have a great day...Diane Akenhead.
Name: Catherine Louise Smirth <leham10@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-08-08 Comments:
Don, you did an amazing and beautiful thing here, for our family. Especially, for me. If I ever decide to have children, I hope I can always bring them to this site. WOW. If you need more information for my web page contact me.
Catherine XOXOXO
Name: Jo-Anne Barber <peanutbutter@dlcwest.com> Date: 2000-08-04 Your Hometown Saskatoon Comments:
I am the Great Grandaughter of James Dobbs Smith of Callendar, Ontario. His
family came from Golden Valley , Ont.
Name: W.H. Smith <kbsmith@ voyager.net> Date: 2000-07-24 Your Hometown Lansing, Mi Comments:
Loking for Edmond E. Smith or could be using middle name Eugene, my uncle , fathers brother, his father John O. Smith,., Mother Zerada Hopkins smith, I have found all family but Edmond
Name: Maggee Smith <legolamb3@aol.com> Date: 2000-07-23 Your Hometown San Francisco, CA, USA URL of your Homepage not finished yet Comments:
Just looking around at other pages to get finishing ideas for my webpage. I have already done a webpage (for rootsweb, at www.rootsweb.com/~antwgw) and now want to start my own. I really liked the way yours is done. Very nice and neat.
Maggee
Name: Ken Smith <smitheken@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-07-13 Comments:
I am researching the FRASER's and have traced to colonial in New Jersey, I would be interested if you have any connection to a FRASER in NJ during the colonial war.
Thanks Ken
Name: Chris Perron <prez@iwebusa.net> Date: 2000-07-06 Your Hometown N.Easton MA. is where I grew up. I live in Somerville now URL of your Homepage http://www.iwebusa.net Comments:
Just started trying to figure out my family tree
Name: Chris Perron <prez@iwebusa.net> Date: 2000-07-06 Your Hometown N.Easton MA. is where I grew up. I live in Somerville now URL of your Homepage http://iwebusa.net Comments:
Just started trying to figure out my family tree
Name: Mary E. Sangster <cwolfram@oberon.ark.com> Date: 2000-07-05 Your Hometown Campbell River BC Comments:
Hi Don. I am a novice at this family tree search. I thought I would have trouble finding information because Smith is such a common name but I can't even find any information on Smith's at all.My mother Elizabeth came to Canada about 1910 at the age of 2 1/2 with her father William Smith and mother Mary Ellen (Gornall) Smith and infant sister Agnes. They came to St. Thomas,Ontario. There were 4 more girls, Iasbelle, Alice, Helen and Francis. They came from Preston,England. My grandfather had a sister Alice who settled in New York and married a Jack Shaw. Their only child was killed in the war. My grandfather had a brother Tom who lived in Preston but I have no info on him. His only other sister Alice married a Johnston and had one daughter That is all I can find out except that his brother or uncle was the first Catholic to become Lord Mayor of Preston Or else it was my grandmother's brother or uncle who became mayor. That would be a Gornall.Does any of this sound familiar to your family tree or can you set me on the right path to find my branch of the Smith family tree. Thanks for any help you can give and I await a reply at your earliest convenience. Mary Sangster. My e-mail is cwolfram@oberon.ark.com
Name: Pat Minot <pminot@aol.com> Date: 2000-07-02 Your Hometown Fort Myers URL of your Homepage soon! Comments:
I hope our web page will be as good as yours.
Name: Bradley Baer Nickey <Sewbee2@juno.com> Date: 2000-06-29 Your Hometown Calimesa, CA Comments:
Have some information on a Roy Howard Smith (13 Sept. 1897 - 25 May 1970). He was married to Elise Florence Baer (28 Mar. 1897 - 25 May 1970). I also have some limited information on descendants. If it is any help, contact me.
Name: Sherry Fraser Barker <sherrysixoone@excite.com> Date: 2000-06-29 Your Hometown Cordele, GA Comments:
Great Job! I was looking for information on the
frasers.
Name: Valerie McIntyre <valandgreg@windsong.bc.ca> Date: 2000-06-21 Your Hometown Langley, B.C. Comments:
I really enjoyed my little tour here, Don. Good work - there's a lot of interesting information and the photos are terrific! I feel like I know you all better now. Cheers, Valerie
Name: Carleen Lightbody <suenhugh@gate.net> Date: 2000-06-19 Your Hometown Spring Hill, FL Comments:
Thanks for such a nice site. My Smith's start with my paternal grandmother, Addie Smith b. 1892 md. Earl Wiley. Ggrfather William T. Smith b. 1874, gggrfather Samuel Smith b. 1849 and Jesse Smith b. about 1815-20. Carleen
Name: Angela Martin <angela_martin@parmalat.ca> Date: 2000-06-19 Your Hometown Mississauga, Ontario Comments:
Just popped into your family tree to see if there was any traces of a Harold W. sMITH? bORN in Ontario Canada 1948.
Nice to see photo's of actual people. A great tool for future generations.
Name: carl smith <carlsmith99_2000@yahoo.com> Date: 2000-06-18 Your Hometown chapel arm trinity bay ,nfld canada Comments:
just wondering if we are related in some way or another
Name: chris smith <chrispmsmith@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-06-17 Your Hometown waterloo Comments:
Don this is great stuff.
nephew chris
Name: daniel bashall <dannybashall@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-06-06 Your Hometown broadstair's kent england Comments:
hope betty smith is in your tree and married richard bashall
Name: Christine <steener99@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-06-06 Your Hometown Alberta Comments:
I stumbled across your site and found it very interesting. My husband works for Precision Drilling, I'll have to forward this site to him! All the best.
Name: Rob McPike <mcpiker@telusplanet.net> Date: 2000-06-01 Comments:
High Don. Hows things.
Name: Richard&JaneTucker Smith <squaw9@excite.net> Date: 2000-05-26 Your Hometown Michigan Comments:
Very nice and interesting pages, thanks.
Name: keith fraser <keithsolutions@bun.com> Date: 2000-05-21 Your Hometown chatham,kent,UK Comments:
looking for frasers to seach family tree
Name: Everett Decker <ZenGenie16@aol.com> Date: 2000-04-28 Your Hometown Westfield, MA; U.S.A. Comments:
Nice page. Looking for info on John & Margaret (URQUHART) BETHUNE who were from Resolis, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland. They m. 25 FEB 1825 in Resolis. They had ch. Margaret b. 11 MAR 1823; Isabel b. 08 MAY 1825; Ann b. 19 MAY 1829; and Duncan & Mary (twins) b. 26 JUL 1831 (all b. in Scotland). They stopped appearing in parish records c. 1841 and likely went to Nova Scotia. Most of their children were in Providence, RI by 1850.
Name: John Lackey <johnlackeyins.cs.com> Date: 2000-04-23 Your Hometown Chattanooga, TN Comments:
You have done a geat job with lots of help for many of us looking for families. I am trying to locate anyone that knew Maxwell Lackey, my father. His family lived in Alamaba, Texas, back to Alamaba. Maxwell "Mac" was living in PA at the time of his death. He had 3 other sons, David, Mark, Skip, then there was Robert and myself, John. Anyone that has any information I would geatly appreciate your help.
Name: Deanna A Harepr <vigilantwiseD@Netscape.net> Date: 2000-04-18 Your Hometown Denver Pa URL of your Homepage Netcenter Comments:
My Grandmother on my mother's side was a peck from PA Born 1904. Can't seem to find antthing on the family .I know that her father died in Perry County .Don;t know any more . Could use some help Please Thank you Daenna A Harper .
Name: llani <llewana@hotmail.com> Date: 2000-04-13 Your Hometown Brisbane Australia Comments:
Searching for James Smith anfd Mary Bell, lacemakers from Nottingham U.K. and Calais, France. Emigrated to N.Z. Anyone help?
Name: Bill Pechumer <billpech@mail.com> Date: 2000-04-13 Your Hometown Grand Rapids, Michigan URL of your Homepage www.countrybill.com Comments:
Read your guest book and listing of names. My mother, sister & I have been searching for Duzity Belland (mother's grandfather), born about 1837 in Canada, died in Michigan.
Nothing about his life is none other than he had 19 living children; after the mother (Vera Murray) died during childbirth, he placed all the children in an adoption home and disappeared for many year. He reappeared and lived and died in Ludington, MI. A major search of church records in Canada do not show his name or parents.
Would love to find more info.
Name: Larry I. Smith <salsmith@gateway.net> Date: 2000-04-10 Your Hometown Lake Charles, Louisiana Comments:
Very nice site. Was looking for relatives of Clyde D. Smith after He moved to the state of Washington sometime after 1917. He was born ? 12Oct1879 and died in Seattle,King Co.,Wash on 5Dec1933.
Name: larry dale lackey <joannamarie@msn.com> Date: 2000-04-08 Your Hometown garfield nj URL of your Homepage ? Comments:
I'm seeking info on the lackey name. Unfortunately I haven't much to go on. I do know my father John Lewellyn Lackey was born in Alabama. Any info would be apprecciated.
Thanks Larry Lackey
Name: jeffrey a smith <jammer@spis.net> Date: 2000-04-07 Your Hometown madisonville kentucky Comments:
i am trying to get history of smith family roots
Name: Alan <tjkkb@mb.sympatico.ca> Date: 2000-04-06 Your Hometown Thompson,Manitoba URL of your Homepage My sympatico Comments:
Thanks for these pages and the
work that went into it.
Iam spending a lot of time here.
Name: liz holtsman <lizy@home.com> Date: 2000-04-05 Your Hometown saskatoon Comments:
great site. I am just starting to search my mother's family.Hugh Smith born March 1989 at Inch, Scotland to John Smith & Agnus Conchie. He married Margaret Holmes at Barrie Ont. March 1911. she was the daughter of James Fyfe Holmes and Elizabeth McLure of Kilmacolm, Scotland. Any one with info please contact me. I have quite a bit on my grandmother ( Holmes) but not much on Hugh Smith. His siblings were Jennie,William,George,Jack,Peter,James,Robert & Mary. Thanks again for this site it has given me a start.
Name: Jason C <mr.x@confidential.com> Date: 2000-03-31 Your Hometown Grande Prairie, Alberta Comments:
It's not easy to find pix from the oil patch on the web--I appreciate your efforts.
Name: Judy (Martin) Hildebrandt <hildebjj@mb.sympatico.ca> Date: 2000-03-27 Your Hometown Grandview, MB Comments:
Nice site.
Name: Dennis Loy <loylaw@compuserve.com> Date: 2000-03-23 Your Hometown Grosse Pointe, Michigan Comments:
Very nice site. I'm looking for some different Lackeys (I think)from Brantford and Toronto. My father in law, Edward, was born in Brantford, then moved to Toronto and later to Detroit. His father was Edward (wife Charlotte Jane Mulligan, of Wilsonville, Ontario). My father in law's Lackey uncles were Eugene, who moved back to Ireland, and Thomas, and his aunts were Rose (unmarried) and Mary Barrett. His grandfather was Robert Lackey, of 16 Walnut, Brantford. Interested in hearing from anyone with information on any of these Lackeys.
Name: Linda Forte <Linnybud@aol.com> Date: 2000-03-22 Your Hometown Duluth, MN Comments:
I'm looking for my Smith ancestors. John J. Smith, my grandfather, came over from Scotland in the 1920's and settled in Duluth, MN. I am just starting my search and I don't know where to start. I was hoping your page could help me. Good luck.
Name: christine fraser <angel40403@aol.com> Date: 2000-03-19 Your Hometown oldtown ME Comments:
But i live in CT now
Name: Iain Fraser Munro <Iain.Munro@can.xerox.com> Date: 2000-03-12 Your Hometown Toronto Comments:
Don,
Lots of info. I;m looking for The Frasers from Scotland who moved into England in the 1800's and on, and on, I don't see any familiar names on your page. Good work though ! keep it up.
Name: Maryanne Miller <MMille7785@aol.com> Date: 2000-03-12 Your Hometown Altoona, Fla , USA 32702 URL of your Homepage http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/i/I/Mary-A-Miller/ Comments:
researching Lackey
Name: Robert Emory Smith <bobalu5@pronet.net> Date: 2000-03-11 Your Hometown Berkeley, CA, USA Comments:
Thank you for the opportunity. I'm fishing for Smiths--Johns and Henry's and Solomons descended from Capt. or Col. John Smith PA -> VA 1730's. Descendents moved south & west to WV, SC, KY, IL. I can prove back to my ggfather around Farmer City, IL 1850 or so. His father, also Henry, came from VA to ? via ?
Thank you again for the space on your excellent web page
Name: Rollin (Jim) Peck <fjpeck@home.com> Date: 2000-03-11 Your Hometown Westbank, B.C. Comments:
Hi Don I finally got to enter your guest book, I notice that you have a great deal of info that I don't have, but there are a great many areas I can fill in for you as far as the Peck side of the family is conserned. We will have to go over these the next time we are together. Jim
Name: PAULINE (PAULA) <TURTLEP@prodigy.net> Date: 2000-03-10 Your Hometown ROCHESTER,NY URL of your Homepage NONE Comments:
THANK YOU LETTING ME VISIT YOUR SITE. BUT I HAVE GO BACK TO SEE MORE THESE THINGS UP THERE > IT BEEN AWHILE BUT I ENJOY CANADA LOTS . THE PEOPLE ARE NICE AND FRIENDLY THERE> THANKS AGAIN PAULA from home town NIAGRA FALLS
Name: Charlene Johnson Lackey <jpsjosie@aol.com> Date: 2000-03-06 Your Hometown Benton, MO Comments:
I have only been working on Lackey family genealogy for a short time,
but looks like you have done an excellent job. I was not able to
associate any of my family members with the names listed, but my
greatgrandfather was John S Lackey who as far I can determine was
born in NC. He may possibly be linked to one of the John Lackeys
listed. I will find a missing link some day and bring it all together.
Name: Elizabeth A Reynolds <redwilow@aol.com> Date: 2000-03-02 Your Hometown Muscle Shoals, Al. Comments:
Dear Don:
I am still searching for info on my John Bethune and Christian McCaskill Bethune. If the ones you listed, are mine also, then I have their children's
names, etc. My mom was a Bethune. She is still living. I believe my John and
Christian were married l799-lived in N.C. One of their children Allan was my
ggggrandfather. If the John Bethune you listed was mine also, then I would
have his parents names. I haven't been able to go further back from John.
Thank you for your time. Your site is imformative and very nice. When I saw
the picture of the Smith's, I thought I was looking at myself. The lady on
far left (viewing screen) looks like me. Thanks again.
Liz
Name: Linda Duckett <dlaladuck@webtv.ney> Date: 2000-02-23 Your Hometown Gardena URL of your Homepage none Comments:
I am trying to find anything out about Charles Joseph Smith, born in Michigan about 1899. Moved to Washington State (not sure when but was living there in 1920) married Arminta Copeland around 1921, had 4 children,3 boys and 1 girl (who was my birth mother)
I believe he died in either the late 60's or 70's
From what I have learned he was mainly Irish with a little French thrown in. Since I just found my birth family after 22years of searching I am very interested in going back in the family history. A sad twist of fate was that my birth mother died in 1976, and her eldest brother died less then one month after I found him without our getting to meet. I did find out I had a brother living 10 min away and he too is very interested in the smith family. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Name: Amy <snickers155@cs.com> Date: 2000-02-09 Your Hometown Erie,Pa Comments:
I enjoyed this website very much!Look forward to some Fraser family history help!Here's what I know so far from alittle research.My Nana was a Fraser.Her name is Edith Fraser.She had the following sibling's:Annie Fraser(deceased in 1922),William Fraser(deceased),John Fraser(deceased),Mary Fraser(living in Scotia,N.Y.)Their parent's names were:William&Margaret Lowe Fraser.The Father(William)had a 1/2 brother named Hector McIntosh.In Scotland,their was a cousin named;Christina Cuthill.There also was a cousin whose name can't be remembered but the cousin's Father was named Murdoch fraser who died in WW1 in 1916.Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!!!Amy-snickers155@cs.com
Name: Laura Conner <clydeconner@gateway.net> Date: 2000-02-09 Your Hometown Waynesville,NC Comments:
My name is Laura Conner.After the death of our father,John Taylor,we discovered we were not Taylors after all.I found out my dad was born Charles Taylor Lackey.He had changed his name sometime prior to marrying my mother.There is so much hush-hush on the matter. Nobody wants to talk about it.From what I have dug up(which wasn't easy to say the least)my daddy was born in a place called Big Creek on Little Cataloochee,N.C. He also resided in a Tennessee county called Hartford.TN.In my search it looks like they changed their name either from Phillips to Lackey or Lackey to Phillips.My dads fathers name was George Lackey(or Phillips) and my grandmothers name was Essie.If any one can help me solve this mystery I would sure love tto talk to them.I would just love to know exactly who I am.I don't care if there is a shaddy past or what not.Any inquiries or information would be highly appreciated.
Name: Rita Smith <rita_smith@telus.net>