October 2003: Adding many (many) links to the pages of photos, as well as linking the SURNAME page charts to Family Photos of individuals. This may be "finished" when we run out of web space :o| Ocelot on Leather added (29 KB). Photos of Grave Markers of Donald GORDON & Elizabeth TRELFORD (102 KB) & Grave Marker of George TRELFORD & Sarah SHAW (130 KB) added. Also added: "Lizzie" TRELFORD & "Minnie" (TRELFORD) PARSONS (14 KB); George TRELFORD Memorial (35 KB); Grave Marker of Joseph TRANTER & Eliza WAGER (29 KB); Obituary of James "Jim" U. CRAIG (42 KB) added. Many of the "Family Photos" enlarged; also other photos on the Trout Flies by John SANDNESS page, Artwork by John SANDNESS page, Her Page, Cat's Page & Princeton page! Maybe others, too . . . Just for fun, a poem, "Old Friends by Jim SMART (21 KB)! Thanks, Jim! Two "new old" photos of All Saints Anglican Church, Ladner (Delta), BC, Canada added (89 KB). Two "new old" photos of Walter E. GILBERT & Frank M. GILBERT added, taken in 1925, from All Saints Anglican Church in Delta, BC. Photos taken on Old Hedley Road added (225 KB). Autumn Leaves in the Rain (40 KB); Plain Text Only Index added, for you engineers, etc ;-) "Navigational aids" added to various pages, hope they are helpful. New links added to the Church page as well as to the GILBERT page & other pages. Evening walk in October along the Trans Canada Trail (369 KB). Greek New Testament for those who are very intelligent. The Similkameen Spotlight, one of our excellent local newspapers, is now online! Recipe for Crabapple jelly added. October drive along Highway 40 (Osprey Lake / Summerland Back Road - 642 KB). Beautiful weather, beautiful colors!

September 2003: Neat computer stuff: "IrfanView - a very fast, small, compact & innovative freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP". Thank you for telling me, you know who you are :-) Seen on a September morning walk along the Trans Canada Trail in Princeton - beautiful fall colors (490 KB)!! We made a short "family tree" trip to the Greater Vancouver area, with visits to some of the GILBERT's" churches for photos: All Saints Anglican Church, Ladner (Delta) (Rev. & Mrs. Walter E. GILBERT were there 1917-1928); Christ Church, Surrey Centre (Cloverdale) (they were there 1909-1917), the burial place of Walter E. & Mydra I. (LENT) GILBERT, & infant son Wallace Lent GILBERT (216 KB); St. Alban's Anglican Church, Richmond (27 to 94 KB) & St. Anne's Steveston (Richmond) (45 to 98 KB). The GILBERT's were at St. Alban's, Brighouse, Lulu Island cum St. Anne's Steveston 1942-1945 (both are in Richmond, BC). See the GILBERT Page for more info. Some links for Christ Church, Surrey Centre (Cloverdale), BC added: Christ Church, Surrey Centre; Church of the Redeemer Parish (Cloverdale, Surrey, BC); "From present into Surrey's past" (Christ Church Cemetery). Some beautiful scenery en route, along the Trans-Canada Highway #1 in the Fraser Valley of BC - Mt. Baker in Wahington State & Mt. Slesse in BC (122 KB). New cat pictures at last (55 KB). Winding down on the Canning frenzy (84 KB). Recipe for Crabapple jelly added. John won ribbons at the Fall Fair again! (82 KB) Recipe for Chocolate Zucchini Cake! Photos of the trip to the SANDNES Farm in Valsøyfjord, Norway in July (235 KB)! Thank you, cousins!

August 2003: Photos of Frank Arbby BRADFORD, Leo Stevens BRADFORD & Winnifred Leota CARD (132 KB). Church in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England (27 KB). Thank you, cousins! Please pray for all those affected by the "Okanagan Mountain Park Wildfire" near & even in the City of Kelowna, BC. Much of August (on the computer) spent trying to make these pages "Netscape-friendly" - not perfect, but improved, we hope. Relatives made a trip to Norway, so we have some new photos online (235 KB)!

July 2003: Carver's Quilt marking the 140th. Anniversary of Princeton in 2000 (147 KB); Quilt Panels Commemorating Princeton at Okanagan Regional Library Princeton Branch (70 KB); Mural by Linda Anderson, Princeton Cultural Centre (99 KB); Morning walk along Trans Canada Trail (137 KB); More artwork: Apache (19 KB); Eskimo (15 KB); Navajo (33 KB); Polar Bear (18 KB); Zuni Maiden (26 KB). Photos of Vermilion Avenue (365 KB) & Court House Stop of Interest (77 KB). "Phifer's Fountain" at the Princeton Gateway to the Trans Canada Trail (57 KB). Old Stage Coach Stop at Aspen Grove very near the Coquihalla Connector Highway 97C! (48 KB). Brookmere, BC added (78 KB), plus a second page of Brookmere photos (95 KB). Two more pictures of Nicola, BC added (38 KB). Two more photos added on the Otter Valley Road, north of Otter Lake (162 KB). "Tulameen Shoe Tree" (21 KB), Drillers Rock (96 KB), Living Water Foursquare Gospel Church "The Country Chapel" (79 KB), Welby Stagecoach (55 KB), Wooden "Brown" Bridge (138 KB), Mural of Susan Allison, Pioneer Gentlewoman (16 KB), Another Three Marmot Pictures (104 KB - those animals are "just too cute"), "Discover Princeton" page with a few more local pictures (169 KB), Photos of what remains of the Cave & Princeton Brewery (151 KB), "Klootchman's Race" (85 KB), "Mile Zero No. 5 Highway" Marker - on Highway 5A! (91 KB). Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101 is a very good tutorial! Photo of the Cenotaph with the names of the men of the Princeton (BC, Canada) District who fell in World Wars I & II & the Korean War (36 KB), Three photos of the "Vermilion Cliff" in downtown Princeton (203 KB), Handy British Columbia Distance Calculator from Ministry of Transportation, Photos of Vermilion Bluffs on the Trans Canada Trail near Princeton (203 KB), Scenes on road north of Otter Lake, & lovely little Nicola near Merritt added. More photos when the film is developed :-) Work on the Princeton page is becoming a "passion" - too much to detail here! It is wonderfully enjoyable to view the various websites discovered during its creation: Vanishing British Columbia by watercolour artist Michael Kluckner, for example. Another site I had fun visiting was Crowsnest Tour Stops of Interest - other "tours" there also; Degree Confluence Project Canada: British Columbia. I hope you will also enjoy these sites!

June 2003: The "Links Page" is now four separate pages: A to F; G to L; M to R & S to Z. It still may be a while before the Links pages are up-to-date! Three more marmot pictures (184 KB) added. We have added "quite a lot" of information about our home town, ~ Princeton, BC ~ on a new page. If you are in Princeton on the Canada Day weekend, starting June 27th, please visit the two Art Shows (at the Cultural Center & the old One-Hour Photo Shop), as well as the Wood Carving Display at Town Hall!! Lots of other activities on this "Summer Heat Weekend" as well. (Postscript - good attendance to all three shows, thank you to everyone!) Links added to The Canadian National Anthem: O Canada & Downloadable mp3; Also check Our Roots Canada's Local Histories Online; Pioneer life on the Bay of Quinte - online & searchable!! Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.'s World Wide Web Site; Personal Ancestral File is a very popular genealogy program that is offered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You can download it (free) by clicking on the "Order/Download Products" tab; BBC Gloucestershire Website; Genealogy of the Cotswolds & Surrounds of England (Gloucestershire, England); Old County Maps - Malcolm Farmer's Web Pages; Wellington County (Ontario, Canada) Museum & Archives. Photos of our neighbours, the Yellow-Bellied Marmots (33 KB). Also a link to visit "The Marmot Burrow" Website! Photo of "Possibly the World's Cutest Puppy" (7 KB - yes, it's real; not, it isn't ours!) Photo of birdhouses weathering in the snow (5 KB - we finally had the roll of film deleloped.)

May 2003: Text added to Annie Donaldson SMITH (Maiden Surname MITCHELL) Obituary, 1941, for those peculiar computers which don't display the image!! Another Stephen PURDY Family (?) - compare to PURDY - NY, USA to Ontario, Canada & Illinois, USA. Link to Trail Inventory - Click, Hike & Bike (Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen); Link to BC's Trans Canada Trail (British Columbia), maps too! Lots of links about Cycling the KVR (Kettle Valley Railway) Trail. For a very good meal, check the Osprey Lake Lodge B&B Plus - we had a wonderful dinner there! Blossoms in Princeton this month (37 KB). Photo of Marriage of James Gall FRASER & Jeannie DUGUID (19 KB); Photo of William Pyper FRASER (36 KB); Photo of Clan MacGREGOR Ladies Ribbon, Jeannie DUGUID, wife of James Gall FRASER (23 KB). Thank you, cousins! Photos of graves - Grave of Cecilia Catherine OSTRANDER, widow of George TRELFORD, near Arthur, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada (20 KB); Grave of Williston C. & Harriet Ann PURDY, Oneida Co., NY, USA (65 KB). Thank you, photographers!

April 2003: A link to the Sinner's Prayer on the Church Page. Also on the Church Page, a link to the article, "How to know you're going to Heaven". More BJORUM & SANDNES(S) photos - see the "Family Photos" page. Thank you, cousins.

March 2003: A photo "tour" of Kinnettles, Angus, Scotland very kind courtesy of Bob DUNCAN (photos taken in 1999). Links to Grant WOOLLARD's LENT & WILLIAMS research; also a link to Lois MOON's TRELFORD site, with lots of photos! Thank you, Grant & Lois. A small map showing the general area of the SANDNES Farm near Valsøybotn, Norway. Thank you, SANDNES(S) cousins. Continuing to learn about William COWIE - see the COWIE Page! Big thank you, you know who you are!! Photos from Royston J. TRANTER added - Henry Isaac TRANTER, KIA 28 Aug 1916 & Joseph TRANTER, KIA 01 Oct 1918 (59 KB); Christopher James JEFFERIES & Anne SPIERS (Image is dark - 44 KB); Henry TRANTER & Adelaide BROOKS (55 KB); Isaac Keen TRANTER & Deborah FLUCK Family (54 KB). Also, Five Generations from William TRANTER to Josiah TRANTER (Information generously shared by Royston J. TRANTER).

February 2003: Photo of MITCHELL Graves in St. Martins Churchyard, Perthshire, Scotland! Thank you cousins, in England & Australia! Photo of William Smith WILSON, Lt. 1st. Durham Royal Engineers (Volunteers) (87 KB), including two unknown men. More information on the BJORUM / BJ ØRUM line, thank you very much! More of my favorite photos: Manitoulin Island, Ontario; Old Fort William, Ontario; another view of the Trans Canada Trail near our home. More Links added. A little more information on the COWIE & CHALMERS lines, thanks to a kind researcher-cousin!

January 2003: Links added to various "SURNAME" pages. (These are summarized on the "Links" page.) Still more photos: some GALL & more SMITH, including early Vancouver, BC, Canada; more GILBERT; also more photos of "LOCATIONS". Too many to list here - take a look at the "Family Photos" page! More info on the BIGGART & GEBBIE surnames (a beginning, at least) and more info on the SAYERS & SMITH pages. Also - William SMITH & Margaret SAYERS SMITH Obituaries (282 KB); Annie Donaldson MITCHELL Obituary, Mentions Alexander Biggart Sayer SMITH, 1941 (287 KB); SMITH family handwritten record of births and deaths, 1827-1848 (63 KB); Handwritten family record of births, from Norway (177 KB). New old (!) SMITH & WILSON family photos from our new-found relatives in the U.K. - thank you! Old pictures of the family (?) in Norway - can you identify anyone? See the "Family Photos" page & scroll down to the "UNKNOWN" heading for links. Also, the SANDNES Farm in Norway in 1930, 1959 & 1978.

December 2002: This set of web pages, that is what's new! With thanks to an excellent book, "Teach Yourself HTML Visually" by maranGraphics, & to John for letting me have the time to learn & create, here we are. Another helpful book is "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page" by Paul McFedries. Credit also goes to the various websites that allow the use of their animations, graphics, backgrounds, etc. To wit: Absolute Background Textures Archives, Animation Station, BK2K.com, The Game Puppet, Marketwizz Internet Solutions, Rosebytes & Sparky's Free Christian Graphics for Homepages . . . & more!

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