Waterways were an early form of highways; this meant getting in a boat to get from one place to another. Have you ever heard of an ancestor building a boat or paying to be transported down a river? One of my branch the Brooks apparently built a huge canoe that – – carried the family and their goods. Their boat building that great wasn’t because the canoe sank the first day out. Reading about this made me wonder if a in the 1700s was the same as a canoe that we know “canoe” as the family details all of the goods they were hauling. So I went out to (like do this week). I discovered that there was a you’ll type of canoe called a Montreal canoe that was 30-40 feet long. According to the website the canoe could hold: Sixty packages of merchandise and provisions weighing 90 to 100 lbs. each, placed on either side of the canoe to make a balanced load. Eight men. Each man was allowed one bag of personal belongings weighing 40 lbs. Total weight 8000 lbs or 4 tons. Figure Montreal Canoe, Wikipedia.org Project Forty-Three An Unusual Website Goal: Find and use a genealogy or history-related website that is new to you. As creatures of habit, we tend to visit the same websites over-and-over, delving into the depths of or . But how often have you cast a wider net? There is so much genealogy information online that amazing. it’s However, much of it has been posted by individuals and is not available
Waterways were an early form of highways; this meant getting in a boat to get from one place to another. Have you ever heard of an ancestor building a boat or paying to be transported down a river? One of my branch – the Brooks – apparently built a huge canoe that carried the family and their goods. Their boat building wasn’t that great because the canoe sank the first day out. Reading about this made me wonder if a “canoe” in the 1700s was the same as a canoe that we know as the family details all of the goods they were hauling. So I went out to (like you’ll do this week). I discovered that there was a type of canoe called a Montreal canoe that was 30-40 feet long. According to the website the canoe could hold: Sixty packages of merchandise and provisions weighing 90 to 100 lbs. each, placed on either side of the canoe to make a balanced load. Eight men. Each man was allowed one bag of personal belongings weighing 40 lbs. Total weight 8000 lbs or 4 tons. Figure Montreal Canoe, Wikipedia.org Project Forty-Three An Unusual Website Goal: Find and use a genealogy or history-related website that is new to you. As creatures of habit, we tend to visit the same websites over-and-over, delving into the depths of or . But how often have you cast a wider net? There is so much genealogy information online that it’s amazing. However, much of it has been posted by individuals and is not available
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