What's New - October 13, 2025
Genealogy Stuff
Around Town
At this point, the project re the main intersection of Brighton is done, although will not be published until it is determined what to do with. The Young Street project has been completed, both east and west sides, and published on my web site. This work will be paused for a time as I go back to work on my next book.
Genealogy
The work on Presqu'ile cottage history resulted in a lot of people and information being added to www.treesbydan.com. Many families from this area already included in the data had cottages for a time and now the basic info re cottage buy or sell or lease has been added. Also, many cottagers at Presqu'ile were from Toronto, Oshawa Port Hope, Rochester, Ohio or New York. After some rigorous digging, it becomes apparent that many of these families have connections to others in the area which allows me to enter them into my database. Some are connected due to marriages generations back, some re loyalist roots. Some families are connected due to marriages of young people who met at Presqu'ile. Whatever the linkage, the result is a lot more of the people mentioned in Susan's book being represented in treesbydan. I am extremely happy with that, but, in fact, I am not done. As you can see by the files available on my web site, I have done Parts 1 to 3, but Part 4 remains to be done. That is the cottages from the bend in the road to the lighthouse. I don't have a timeframe for this work, but it is on my to-do list. I'd love to have it all done.