MAGRC now Home of Hessian Research Completed Over Last 20 Years by John Helmut Merz
Aug 21, 2004: John Helmut Merz announced at the Rose House Museum Hessian Day Celebrations, on 21st August at the Bay of Quinte, that he has turned over his complete research material collected over the last 20 years in respect to Hessian soldiers who settled in Canada after the American Revolution, to 7th Town Historical Society President Ian E. Reilly UE, located at the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre. This material will shortly be available for family research. 7th Town has also taken over John's remaining stock and copyright of the following books: Hessians of Nova Scotia, Hessians of Upper Canada, Hessians of Quebec, and Hessians of Marysburg, Ontario. Approximately 2,500 Hessian soldiers from different principalities remained in Canada after 1783.
Extract from Quinte Kin, Vol. 5, No. 3, Sep 2004
More about he Hessian Day at the Rose House Museum at http://www.germancanadian.com/newsite/pressreleasedetail.cfm?id=184

New Zealander Finds Ancestral Answers at Ameliasburgh
May 7, 2004: For the past four years, Dr. Arnold Parr has made an annual trip to research his family's history. Canadian-born Parr is a senior sociology lecturer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His research and travel, funded by the university, are part of his project exploring Canadian and American identifies in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the clues to his unique search are found here at the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre. "My ancestral roots run fairly deeply in this area," Parr said, explaining he's descended from United Empire Loyalists who settled both in Canada and the United States, often travelling back and forth between the two. "I became really fascinated as to why some relatives identified themselves as Canadians and some as Americans," he said. His research focuses mainly on the local PLATT, PETTIT, HICKS and PARR families. . . He said family documents -- from family trees kept in Bibles to letters written generations ago -- are key to his work. . . "It's from this centre that I've been able to find most of the information." . . . "Land records prove to be one of the most reliable and accurate sources of information," Parr said.  
Extract from "Roots of New Zealand in Canada and US" by Luke Hendry, reprinted with kind permission of "The Intelligencer"; Quinte Kin, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2004

New Zealander Finds Ancestral Answers at Ameliasburgh
May 7, 2004: For the past four years, Dr. Arnold Parr has made an annual trip to research his family's history. Canadian-born Parr is a senior sociology lecturer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His research and travel, funded by the university, are part of his project exploring Canadian and American identifies in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the clues to his unique search are found here at the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre. "My ancestral roots run fairly deeply in this area," Parr said, explaining he's descended from United Empire Loyalists who settled both in Canada and the United States, often travelling back and forth between the two. "I became really fascinated as to why some relatives identified themselves as Canadians and some as Americans," he said. His research focuses mainly on the local PLATT, PETTIT, HICKS and PARR families. . . He said family documents -- from family trees kept in Bibles to letters written generations ago -- are key to his work. . . "It's from this centre that I've been able to find most of the information." . . . "Land records prove to be one of the most reliable and accurate sources of information," Parr said.  
Extract from "Roots of New Zealand in Canada and US" by Luke Hendry, reprinted with kind permission of "The Intelligencer"; Quinte Kin, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2004