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Getting a Helping Hand on Edward Elliot's Crown Land Petition

rawpixel.com   The genealogy community is nothing if not generous. I received a surprising amount of help from Ken McKinlay, a new-to-me Canadian genealogist, who fielded my recent inquiry about how to find a Crown land petition for Edward Elliot, a probably fourth great-grandfather, in Sullivan, Grey Co., Ontario. Not only did Ken dive head first into researching the case for me, but he also wrote a blog post about the case for his own blog, Family Tree Knots . So, in part, this is a blog about a blog! Using FamilySearch's Full-Text Search I had discovered Edward Elliot had received a Crown land patent on 10 July 1849 for land in 2nd Division, Lot 3, 1st Concession in Sullivan, Grey, Ontario. I looked for Edward's petition on Library and Archives Canada's collection "Land Petitions of Upper Canada, 1763-1865, " but did not find him. Odd. Edward Elliot's Crown land patent was registered in Grey County. Turning to Facebook, I searched on the Ontario Genealogy ...
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CCC PHOTO DISCOVERY

 

Thomas Kozlina (3rd from left, bottom row), with members of his CCC 329 Co., Pine Grove Furnace, winter 1934-35.1

by Nancy Gilbride Casey


Genealogical serendipity is real! 

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about my discovery that my grandfather Thomas Kozlina was in the Civilian Conservation Corp in 1934-35, when he was 23. He was stationed at the Pine Grove Furnace CCC Camp No. 51 in Cumberland County, from Fall 1934-March 1935. He was a member of 329 Company, which worked on state forest projects.

Today, I received a stack of photos from my Mom's cousin Marlene in Pennsylvania, which included several never-before-seen photos of Grandpa's time in the CCC. She had discovered them in an old photo album full of family photos.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be scanning and sharing more photos, but for today, here are photos of Thomas Kozlina from the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Wielding tools of the trade in the state forest CCC camp.

Posing in the snow and sun.

Horseplay during down time.

Thomas Kozlina  (2nd from right), with other members of 329 Co.
  

Two formal photos in front of camp headquarters perhaps?


Until next time...

Special thanks to Cousins Marlene who provided the photos and Cousin Joe who supplied notes on the photos. Thank you for helping preserve our family history.

 

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NOTES

Various photos of Thomas J. Kozlina, age 23, Civilian Conservation Corps, 329 Co., unknown photographer, Cumberland County, 1934-35; private collection of N. Casey [address for private use], 2022.


 



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