While we welcome e-mail from anyone, on any topic, we often see a number of similar questions. Before e-mailing us, checking this list may save you some trouble.
Note that the material on this web site is material that we, the hosts of boldts.net, are interested in. We offer up the information on this site as a hobby, and as a pay-back for all the useful information made available on the internet by others. For the most part, we have nothing to do with any of the places, companies, or institutions featured here.
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- Do you have anything to do with any of the churches or cemeteries shown on your site?
- Can you send me information on Toronto? (Or Moosonee? etc.)
- Can I use one of the photos on your web site?
- Can we exchange links?
- My last name is Boldt (or Moll, etc). Do you have information on my ancestors?
- Do you know the address (or phone number) of …?
- How is “Yonge Street” pronounced? What is the origin of the name?
- I think you’re wrong!
1: Do you have anything to do with any of the churches or cemeteries shown on your site?
Occasionally, we get questions specifically related to particular churches or cemeteries featured here. For example, “Can I get married at the Prayer Palace?“, or “Does St. Patricks collect cash register receipts for charity?“. We’ve received such questions even after adding a short, easy to answer quiz to ensure that questioners do actually read this FAQ! And so now I’ve felt compelled to expand on the previous one word answer to this question.
So, do we have anything to do with any of the churches or cemeteries featured here? Well, I occasionally attended the weekly service at one church about 20 years ago, and we attended a wedding service at another. Also, the minister at a local church was the brother of a high school classmate. Apart from these trivial connections, we have nothing to do with any of the churches or cemeteries shown here.
Now that you know the answer to this question, what do you do next? Generally, we try to add links to an official church web site where we know one exists. But the best way to contact a real person at the church you’re interested in is to search for the church using Google, or to look up their phone number in the phone book.
2: Can you send me information on Toronto? (Or Moosonee? etc.)
No, we’re not a tourism office or travel agency. Check our pages for links for further information.
Nor are we a research agency. If you ask us a question, we would likely redirect you to someone more appropriate. If you have a question about something mentioned here, almost certainly a little bit more research on your part will uncover a more appropriate person or organization for your question.
On the other hand, if you’re looking for opinions and impressions of a particular place, feel free to ask. Perhaps we can tell you some things that a tourism office won’t tell you!
3: Can I use one of the photos on your web site?
No.
However, we sometimes grant use of our photos provided they are used for non-profit purposes. But you must ask permission first.
For example, generally, we give permission to non-profit institutions such as registered charities or churches.
On the other hand, feel free to link to the page that includes the picture you’re interested in. After all, linking is what the world-wide web is all about.
4: Can we exchange links?
Maybe.
If you have a web page with information on a topic related to something here, then please feel free to ask. I am especially interested in linking to pages of personal photos of your home town or city in Ontario.
On the other hand, I’m not interested in exchanging links just for the purpose of exchanging links. Long lists of random unrelated links serve no purpose other than attempting to increase the ranking of your page in certain search tools. (Besides, search tools can easily determine the nature of such pages anyways, and rate the value of such links appropriately.)
5: My last name is Boldt (or Moll, etc). Do you have information on my ancestors?
Probably not.
But first check the Genealogy section. These are all the people we have information on. If the people you’re interested in are not in these lists, then we don’t know anything about them.
Please note that just because a name you’re interested in is in one of our indexes, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the information is connected to your data. Unrelated people all over can share the same surname. This is especially true in the Netherlands, where the partonymic naming system was commonly used up until the early 19th century. (For example, a person named Dirk Gerritsen may have a father named Gerrit Beertsen.)
6: Do you know the address (or phone number) of …?
Probably not, and I’d have to look it up for you. You could do that yourself, by going to the Canada 411 web site.
7: How is “Yonge Street” pronounced? What is the origin of the name?
A few people have actually asked us this question!
Toronto’s Yonge Street is pronounced the same as the word “young”. Yonge Street was named after Sir George Yonge, British Secretary at War.
8: I think you’re wrong!
We don’t claim to be perfect. If you can correct us on any factual matter, please do so.
On the other hand, if you disagree with an opinion expressed, tough! It’s still a free country, and like you, we’re entitled to our opinions. If you’d like to express your opinion, I suggest that you develop your own web site.