I think I just posted this for someone else, but just in case:
Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping List of Links
The main site is
www.glmi.org and this is their genealogy link:
http://www.boatnerd.com/links.htm#gene
Hope this will be some help. Lorelei
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From: Edward A. Black, Sr. <w6uyf(a)earthlink.net>
[mailto:w6uyf@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 9:28 AM
To: MIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [MIGEN] [Fwd: Murdoch MacQueen, Ore boat captain]
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Subject: Murdoch MacQueen, Ore boat captain
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:35:40 -0700
From: "Russell Johnson" <seanair(a)comcast.net>
To: <MIGEN-L-request(a)rootsweb.com>
Hello all,
I am new to this list and I am seeking information on Murdoch D.
MacQueen
born, May 8, 1897 at North River, Victoria County, (Cape Breton) Nova
Scotia. It is said he moved to Detroit, MI and was an ore boat captain.
It
is unknown if he ever married.
His brother Angus MacQueen, born Feb 7, 1900, died December 1974 in
Alpena, MI. He may have been a captain or Great Lakes sailor also.
Angus,
(spouse unknown) had two sons, Raymond and Clarence. Clarence married
Lenora
Mercer, she died in July 1996.
Murdoch and Angus' parents were Alexander MacQueen, born Oct 4,
1858,
North Shore, Cape Breton,died 1921, and Christy MacDonald, born Dec 25,
1863, French River, Cape Breton, died Feb 20, 1911.
Can anyone direct me to a site, or do lookups, where I might learn
more
about these men. I am assuming that these two men would have been
licensed
seaman, and some records should exist.
For anyone doing research on ancestor's from Cape Breton, I have a
data
base of over 32,000 individual's, mostly emigrants from the Outer Isles
of
Scotland, Skye, Lewis and Harris, etc. I would be happy to share any
information I have. Quite a few of these emigrants later moved (about
1850)
to Bruce and Huron County, Ontario and then on to Michigan, Ohio, and
Minnesota.
Russell
Johnson
Eugene,
Oregon
seanair(a)comcast.net
This is my genealogy homepage.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/h/Russell-W-Johnson/