{"id":2629,"date":"2025-05-25T05:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/?page_id=2629"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:40:14","slug":"welcome-to-the-family-directory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Family Directory."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

AT TOP RIGHT, find alphabetically listed surnames<\/mark>. Some letters have a 2nd page at “Older posts”<\/em>.<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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If you have family stories to share, consider submitting documents and pictures about your Historic Westmeath Township family. Stories of when, why, who, how and where. Learn about the families and settlers who built Historic Westmeath Township.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tips to find more information on your family:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  1. On the Main Site, look through the School Class pictures.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  2. Search through the Marriage Registries found with the appropriate churches on the Main site.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  3. Map No.22, housed in the Archives of Ontario, is available in the Maps Section<\/a> of this site. Find the early homesteads.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  4. Go to Lest We Forget<\/em> in Churches and check for your relatives if they served.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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    This website covers the generations that came of age and experienced both the horrendous sacrifice of the Great War\u00a0 of 1914-1918 and the ravages of the second; World War II 1939-1945. To bring attention to the impact those wars had on the families of Westmeath Township; a red poppy is inserted for each veteran who served our nation. A visual remembrance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    Detail of \u201cFamily Register\u201d taken from an embroidery sampler made by Harriet Jackson, age 12, in 1842.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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    AT TOP RIGHT, find alphabetically listed surnames. Some letters have a 2nd page at “Older posts”. If you have family stories to share, consider submitting documents and pictures about your Historic Westmeath Township family. Stories of when, why, who, how and where. Learn about the families and settlers who built Historic Westmeath Township. Tips to READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2629","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2629\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwtproject.ca\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}