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From: Perrin Larton <>
Subject: Re: [UPP-CAN] Quick Start Canada- Census Comparison Charts
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:40:09 -0700


I have to disagree. I've been an Ancestry.com subscriber for...well I
can't remember NOT being an Ancestry subscriber. The price of the
subscription has been 'given' to me by my husband and children each
Christmas so even though I know the cost I don't have to bear it. That
being said, I've found many errors as well...but have used those to
prove/disprove family associations and with many of the documents being
viewable now, I can take a look myself.

Do I have to work at this...you betcha...but I don't have to do any of my
research on someone else's timetable. I travel a lot for work and have
used Ancestry.com to track relations and go to the site where they
(Ancestry) got their information. For me the census records alone are
invaluable...and yes there are errors and goofs...but again for me that's a
small price to pay for 'finding' a lost relation. Add the
birth/death/marriage records and I'm a very happy camper.

I'm just now beginning my search for some of my husbands relations in
Canada...so I may weigh in on Ancestry.ca at a later date!

Perrin Larton
Morgan Hill California


At 04:38 PM 5/19/06 -0400, Dave wrote:
>I completely agree with Diane. They seem to have a strangle hold on so much
>information that is free and just needs to be extracted. Its another example
>of greed and monopoly .
>I have used it at my public library and find their census extractions filled
>with errors and goofs.
>Count me out for any subscriptions to Ancestry
>D.J.
>
>
>
>on 5/19/06 1:47 PM, Diane Apel at wrote:
>
>> Somehow most of the links for the census on any site I hit go back to
>> Ancestry.com or Ancestry.ca. They are always trying to have you sign up for
>> their service and I find this very annoying. I live in the US, but most
of my
>> family history has to be found in Canada. Canada is very hard to search
>> on-line, with the exception of some pretty good sites for Ontario and
some of
>> BC and Alberta.
>>
>> I can search Ancestry.com at the public library and find their searches
to be
>> highly overrated. Their Canadian content is very insignificant. I can
hardly
>> believe they charge the exhorbitant prices they want. It will take a long
>> time before they can justify their rates to me. They do have a lot more
>> information for US researchers, but I would be very leary of paying their
>> price if I was looking for Canadian information.
>>
>> Just my opinion. Diane
>
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