There are special genealogical posting boards for kids looking for family roots. If you are a kid visiting this page, please use this board to ask for help to find your great great grandparents, cousins, etc. If you are an adult visiting this page, check out this board often to see if you can be of assistance to these junior genealogists.
Besides posting family tree queries, on the SaskGenWeb For Kids webpages there are crytograms, word search puzzles, crosswords, fill in the blanks, quizzes, online interactive games, and much more. Fun for both kids and adults.
There is also family research and genealogical ideas for parents and teachers
Ron Isherwood October 09, 1946 – August 09, 2017 enjoyed working on his Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project, and he also had enjoyed doing genealogy research. Thank you very kindly to the many contributions made by Ron Isherwood, and for his dedication to the Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project, indeed.
The Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project which is now restored and operational online after the hiatus between December 2017 and September 2018. The Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project is not being updated after 2017, but is kept online in an archived status thanks to Ancestry.com Rootsweb.
The original Saskatchewan Gen Web pages hosted on rootsweb / ancestry.com http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cansk/Saskatchewan/ are now restored online, and can be viewed at:
Thank you kindly for the hours of dedicated work put into the web pages by the many Saskatchewan Gen Web volunteers, and those who had submitted information, pictures and resources to the Saskatchewan gen web project on Ancestry/rootsweb your interest and dedication was simply amazing and appreciated by so many! The original Saskatchewan Gen Web https://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk is back up and running Thank you to Rootsweb – Ancestry IT department for restoring and preserving the data submitted by volunteers and submitters as of September 2018
Rootsweb/Ancestry Hosted Websites that have previously been hosted on http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com are currently unavailable. We do apologize for the inconvenience this causes our visitors but we do not have any control over this issue. Ancestry.com employees are working to get the websites back up and running on the original rootsweb domain. Please bear with us during this time of transition if you are seeking genealogical resources for Saskatchewan family trees.
There had been a great many resources transcribed, digitized and photographed and uploaded to the internet on the Saskatchewan SaskGenWebRootsweb pages. From cemeteries, to public domain books and maps, ancestral biographies, family trees, and much much more. See why Ancestry has taken all the original pages of data off line
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Please be patient, Saskatchewan Gen Web is coming back online!!! Woo hoo! Ancestry.com has taken all the webpages of the World Gen Web offline which were online utilizing the hosting capacity of Rootsweb. Ancestry.com has been in the process of maintenance since December 2017.
Why? “We believe the intrusion was limited to the RootsWeb surname list, where someone was able to create the file of older RootsWeb usernames and passwords as a direct result of how part of this open community was set up, an issue we are working to rectify. ” Tony Blackham, Ancestry.com’s CISO said.
RootsWeb began as a volunteer driven collective of people with an interest in genealogy who came together to host and share genealogical information online. Rootsweb was purchased by Ancestry in 2000. In the summer of 2008 MyFamily.com bought out Rootsweb and Ancestry.com RootsWeb provides resources online including webspace for volunteer web hosts, mailing lists, message boards for family genealogists to make connections through the WorldGenWeb project. Rootsweb with its surname mailing lists, is the oldest free online community genealogy research site.
There were many thousands of pages of data, and documentation online for the genealogist researching their family tree in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Maps, historic train maps and guides, cemetery transcriptions and cemetery photographs, book indexing, book transcriptions, biographical accounts, letters, information and history about teachers, superintendents of the many Saskatchewan one room school house districts. All of these pages placed online by dedicated volunteers are now offline until the employees Ancestry.com IT department can fix the glitch. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. For more information about the status of the maintenance please see this page
WE invite your comments, and we hope you enjoy the new format, and stay tuned for further updates and developments as the new Saskatchewan Gen Web grows online!
Saskatchewan Gen Web was originally online at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk Check periodically at the old link http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk for updates by the ancestry team as to the status of the old Saskatchewan Gen Web, meanwhile, the rebirth will begin here. Thank you kindly for the hours of dedicated work put into the web pages by the Saskatchewan Gen Web volunteers and Regional volunteers, your work was simply amazing and appreciated by so many! Looking to the future when the original site is restored online by Ancestry.com
The Canada Gen Web Cemetery Project has restructured their web pages, so that the index is available. The Ancestor Remembrance Project, and the Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project are down at this time, as they were both hosted on Ancestry/Rootsweb.com. There is no time frame as to when the original cemetery transcription and photograph pages will be again up and running ;-( However, we will post news on this web site, which has started up in the interim.
Grieve with the heart; let not the head
Grieve on, when grief of heart is dead:
No, not that anguish! Christ forbid
That I should raise such dead! I rose,
Stifled the mouth with lilies, hid
Those eyes, and drew the long hair close,
And shut the coffin lid.
In the high memory that the desolate heart
Shrines and is dumb, yet may for ever keep
Unforbidden, the imperishable part,
And what Love held, awake, he holds, asleep.
Memory of loved one
It is hoped that the Saskatchewan Gen Web will soon be up and running again, with the resources for genealogists again online. At this time the Saskatchewan Gen Web Mailing Lists are operational 😉
“Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.” Albert Pike
Field of Poppies
The Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial is an online tribute and remembrance dedicated to those from the province of Saskatchewan who have given the supreme sacrifice in military service. News report about the SVWM.
Personnel Records of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force CEF records database at Library and Archives Canada (LAC). The LAC blog provides updates on the status of files digitized online. As 2014-2018 commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I, LAC are aiming to preserve the national heritage of Canada by digitizing the entirety of the CEF service files.
Microform digitization of the Veteran’s Death Cards: First World War. These alphabetically arranged cards are online in the same format as they were first preserved in microform. The death cards honour the CEF veterans who died after World War One. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) digitizes the fallen and the cemeteries resulting in an online memorial. For those who gave the supreme sacrifice during World War I check the CWGC.
from Your Sask Gen Web Host, Julia Adamson
The Anxious Dead
O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
Above their heads the legions pressing on:
(These fought their fight in time of bitter fear,
And died not knowing how the day had gone.)
O flashing muzzles, pause, and let them see
The coming dawn that streaks the sky afar;
Then let your mighty chorus witness be
To them, and Caesar, that we still make war.
Tell them, O guns, that we have heard their call,
That we have sworn, and will not turn aside,
That we will onward till we win or fall,
That we will keep the faith for which they died.
Bid them be patient, and some day, anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep;
Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to their sleep. ~John McCrae
This above page is online to help with Saskatchewan genealogy research while the rootsweb/ancestry.com team have the original website happens to be temporarily offline due to technical difficulties.
We, The RootsWeb Team, appreciate your patience as we bring the different pieces of RootsWeb back online in a secure manner. You, our contributors and viewers, are what has made RootsWeb the vibrant free genealogy community it is.
Update from Ancestry/Rootsweb.com IT : January 25, 2018
We have been in the process of improving the site throughout 2017, and as a result of an issue we recently became aware of, we have taken the site offline while we work to resolve it. We take the security of our contributors and our viewers seriously. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but protecting our users’ personal information is our top priority.
We have taken the RootsWeb Mail system offline for the next few weeks so that we can upgrade the Mailman system. Mailman is the software which runs the mailing lists. While the system is down, you will not be able to send or receive email. We thank you for your patience.{Source}
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
Sask Gen Web Message Boards and Query BoardsEach of the following message boards or query boards is titled with the name of a city or community. The ancestry message board postings relate to the larger area around this placenames. The message boards are operational while the Rootsweb Team is fixing the Websites.
Message boards receive entries by topic on each board, and are classified by the SURNAMES mentioned in the posting
Query: A request for genealogical information from others on the board.
Bible: A transcription or quote of information recorded in a bible such as a family bible.
Biography: A transcription or quote from a biography of an individual. This classification can also be used for transcriptions of biographical articles, such as newspaper articles.
Birth: A transcription or quote from an official birth record such as a church record or birth certificate.
Cemetery: A transcription or quote from an official cemetery record or tombstone.
Census: A transcription or quote from an official census record.
Death: A transcription or quote from an official death record such as a church record or death certificate.
Deed: A transcription or quote from an official land, property or other deed.
Immigration: A transcription or quote from an official immigration-related record. Official records may include: passenger list, naturalization application, and/or citizenship documentation.
Lookup: A request for another board member to look up information in a certain place or the results or response to a lookup request.
Marriage: Transcription or quote from an official marriage record. Official records may include: wedding certificate, church record and/or marriage license.
Military: Transcription or quote from an official military record.
Obituary: Transcription or quote from a published obituary or death notice.
Pension: Transcription or quote from an official pension record.
Will: Transcription or quote from a will or probate.
Other: Other data that does not have a category listed. Please use this classification sparingly.
A very good idea is to select a good subject line. Do not use a generic subject line that only says “searching for my family” as that is what the message boards are for, and everyone knows that whomever arrives is doing their family tree. Instead, place in the subject line, the given name and SURNAME of your ancestor, with additionally pertinent dates, and placename. With such a subject line, it is easier to see if there is a family researcher or distant cousin who may link with information to the full message of the posting.
While the Rootsweb/ancestry.com IT specialists are fixing the problems, Sask Gen Web will start to come back online on this site to help you in your ancestral research for Saskatchewan. 😉
SaskGenweb is down as Rootsweb/Ancestry.com has taken the hosted webpages down off their website. They state “We have been in the process of improving the site throughout 2017, and as a result of an issue we recently became aware of, we have taken the site offline while we work to resolve it. We take the security of our contributors and our viewers seriously. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but protecting our users’ personal information is our top priority.”
