Emma Amelia Schultz

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Permalink Reply by Al (alpobc) on July 13, 2010 at 12:08am

Hi Jo;
Don't spend your money needlessly $50 CDN for a cert in BC!
If some kind soul happens to be in Victoria, they could go to the Archives. If they are not a member, they could become one (free) and necessary to access the archives. The reference number for the films makes it easy to find, however, some films have the images out of order. Once the film is in the machine and the image found, one presses copy and out it comes. When you leave the archives, you pay for the copies at the front counter $0.40 CDN + tax yes 40 cents, a far cry from 50 bucks! It would be the same copy, just not certified by the archivist.
Unfortunately, I only get to Victoria on weekends and the Archives are closed.

I hope some one can help you.
Al Parsons
Duncan, British Columbia, Canada

Permalink Reply by Jo Saunders on July 13, 2010 at 10:04am

thank you for the advice I do have a cousin who gets there occasionally, maybe I can ask her to get it for me.

Permalink Reply by Al (alpobc) on July 13, 2010 at 12:58am

Hi Jo;
I also did a quick search on Automated Genealogy for the Canadian 1901 Census. I put SCHULTZ in the National Surname box, I did not choose a Province. Then hit enter. Then I choose a few surnames that looked similar (keep in mind that the surnames with check boxes are as they were transcribed by volunteers and not necessarily correctly), then I put emma in the givens box, female for gender and 1882 for birth date then +/- 5 years. I got 4 Emma SCHULTZ's all in Ontario. I then used the back button on the browser and went back to the page were I entered the given name and changed it to Amelia, so the rest of the criteria remained the same and only got one, also in Ontario. When you click on the census page number in the results list, a page with a web version of the census page opens. This is how it was transcribed, you chosen person will be highlighted in yellow, make a note of the census line number, itll make it easier to find. At the top of the page, there is a link for 'split screen', click that and the actual census page will open in the top frame, you can then choose to make it larger (if you want to read it LOL) and you can also choose to save it to your PC or print it. I'll leave it to you to decide which one is your Ms. SCHULTZ.

I hope this helps.
Al Parsons
Duncan, British Columbia, Canada

Permalink Reply by Jo Saunders on July 13, 2010 at 10:15am

Thank you for your response, I think this is the same Emma Amelia that i found, I traced her family back through the census, in Sullivan Grey Ontario (parents Rudolf and Pauline) and it looked realy good, I found her birth record and then I finally found a marriage record for her that did not fit the dates were very unlikely and made all the rest of the research invalid, but I kept all the information, just in case for some reason she is in fact my Emma. I used the automated genealogy as well as ancestry.com and heritagequest.com all the information was the same, there was even a book in Sullivan Grey where her family was listed. I did so want her to be my Emma, but that pesky marriage record put a wrench in things.
My grandmother was born ion Washington inFebruary of 1907 to Emma and her husband with the surname of Currie (Curry) Unfortunately there was a marriage for the Ontario Emma to someone else in 1906, and it just didn't fit, but you never know maybe that guy died and then she married Currie, who knows, so I did keep the research in a special little envelope. I will go back in there and see what other emmas you found. Thanks again.
Jo

Permalink Reply by Jo Saunders on August 11, 2010 at 7:23am

An update on my Emma Amelia Schultz, according to her marriage record to Stillwagon, she was born in British Columbia and her parents were William and Minnie Schultz, I don't have a maiden name for Minnie, but i don't have the actual document yet, just a more detailed extract. Emma was also listed as "widowed", but I am not sure if this was true or not, as there were others in Canada who claimed to be widowed but in fact they were not, they just didn't ever get a divorce from the first husband. So a little further along, but not a lot.

Permalink Reply by Jo Saunders on April 29, 2011 at 7:23am

Update for Emma Schultz, She was born in 1881, but I have conflicting information about where she was born, one source (her marriage record to her second husband) says she was born in BC, but her daughter says she was born in Red Deer Alberta. She also says that her exact BD is 23 April 1881 does any one know if birth records for that year are available in either or both of these places?

Permalink Reply by Jo Saunders on May 13, 2011 at 4:30pm

The April 1881 birth date does not compute with the information that emma was 97 when she died in 1981, which would maker her birth year 1884, which would be more in keeping with the census records... AAARRRGG this woman is going to drive me crazy!!