Families
1902 - Successful Annual Gathering of the Descendants of Frederick Arnold – A History of Fascinating Interest – Entertained Tecumseh on the Eve of His Last Battle.

Immigration
Passenger Lists On The Internet
Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources
Passenger Lists, Ship's movement lists, etc.
Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 - Library and Archives Canada

some Kent OGS related sites
Cemeteries of Chatham-Kent - with links to maps; [site under development]
"Home Children" who at some time lived in Kent County.
"Home Children" who were placed or located in Lambton County.
Post Offices of Chatham-Kent
People of Kent - who gave their lives for Sovereign and Country

Newspapers Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection, (digitized) -- covering Colorado from 1859 to 1923
and
About Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (CHNC) By: Rick Roberts, Global Gazette
'old newspapers' site

Occupations
Old Occupation Names
Old Occupations in Scotland
Old Occupations Explained
Old names of occupations
Old Occupations

Search Engines
Kent Branch Domain Search Engine
RootsWeb Archives Search Engine

Places around Kent Co.
Early Chatham History
Ontario Abandoned Places
Ontario Abandoned Places, Dawn Mills, Kent County, Ontario
Ontario Abandoned Places, Northwood, Kent Co., Ontario
Ontario Abandoned Places, Thamesville, McKay's Corners, Botany, etc.
Ontario Abandoned Places, Cashmere, Mosa Twp., Middlesex Co., Ontario

South-Western Ontario
Sydenham Discovery - At different times, by different people, the Sydenham River has been called Jonquakamik, Ah-yan-yon-kege, or Big Bear Creek. One tributary off of the northern branch of the river is still referred to as Bear Creek. The name Sydenham comes from Lord Sydenham, who was governor of Canada from 1839-1849.
some historic background on Essex County
Historical Locations in Kent County, Ontario

Vital Statistics
On-Line Vital Event Indexes - British Columbia
Saskatchewan Vital Statistics - births searchable on-line
Manitoba Vital Statistics - searchable on-line - seems very slow - NOTE: May be case-sensitive
Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics -- Births 1864-1877; Marriages 1864-1930; Deaths 1864-1877 and 1908-1955
New Brunswick Vital Statistics - searchable on-line
Michigan Death Indexing System - 1867 - 1897
Illinois State Archives has Illinois marriages 1763-1900 if anyone needs such.

miscellaneous
Archion-Ont. Can. Archival Network
Chatham-Kent libraries, heritage, events, maps, museums, etc.
C-KAT, Chatham-Kent’s Library Catalogue
Acadian web site
Leddy Library Genealogy Research Guide
Weather Calculators
Canada's Local Histories - online
Kent Agricultural Hall of Fame - Overview
Kent Agricultural Hall of Fame - List of Inductees
Paper of Record

Church Ghost
-- "At the Park Street United Church in Chatham, the ghost of a tall man, who can be seen dressed in black can be spotted running about Wesley Hall. He has been sighted by two different janitors when motion detectors were on and running."

The Wilkins Expedition 1763
-- On November 7, 1763 a fleet of small boats carrying nearly 700 officers and men of the 60th and 80th Regiments under Major John Wilkins, was forced ashore by a violent storm about three miles east of this point. The expedition had set out from Niagara on October 19 to relieve the British post at Detroit, commanded by Major Henry Gladwin, which was then under siege by a powerful force of Indians led by Pontiac. Some seventy men and twenty boats with most of the supplies were lost in the storm. Wilkins and the survivors reached the shore where they buried the dead and encamped for five days before returning to Niagara. [PLAQUE #24 -- Location: at the Rondeau Provincial Park Visitors Centre, deep in the Park, at the corner of Gardiner Avenue and Lakeshore Road - Erected by the Ontario Archeological and Historic Sites Board]

Wolfe Creek Neutrals
-- a group of sites has been identified in the Wolfe Creek area near Chatham, consisting of the Wolfe Creek, McGeachy and Wilson Sites, along a tributary of the lower Thames River.

The Wolfe Creek Site
-- MOA3 1990, 83p. 3 - 83 (edited by W. A. Fox) FOSTER, G. A. M. The Wolfe Creek Site (AcHm-3); a Prehistoric Neutral Frontier Community in Southwestern Ontario [Monographs in Ontario Archaeology Numbers 1-3, 1983 - 1990 ]

the Neutral expanded westwards, and thus in Wolfe Creek and McGeachy 17 % of the body sherds are shell-tempered.

Foster, Gary 1986 The <>Wolfe Creek Site:
A Prehistoric Neutral Frontier Community. Report to the OAS Ottawa Chapter Meeting, December 11, 1985. Ottawa Archaeologist, Vol. 13, No. 1, p. 2-16.