Most of the Vital Records services, end up giving you index only, not full records.... They are not worth much. I used Genweb for Ontario, and found all the help I could use. I was searching Ontario, and they have a website with most of graves online. I then asked for help with monument inscriptions...and found books on most areas/villages, which filled in my records. I usually get interlibrary loans, or purchase online at add-all. Most university catalogs are online, where I could search for books by town, township and county. Genwebs are on providence/state level, then county. All in both U.S. and canada are laced with volunteer organizations and individuals and lists like these. Save your money, the indexes don't give full date or either parent. You'll end up chasing your tail/tale.... use the good people who care about your making progress, not making a buck! Mary in Oregon I can help with Ontario, or the National archive as far as helpful hits but I've not worked with Alberta. ancestry.com's canadian records, give you the actual document...money much better spent. Now if they'd only start with south africa! In a message dated 2/5/2009 1:54:16 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, caro@sasktel.net writes: Hello Bruce, I would recommend that you try to find your info on your own by writing to the government agencies responsible for the registration of Vital records, before paying money to a search agency. They probably won't have any better luck than you at getting info. If you are unsure where to start first, I would recommend having a look at the Canada GenWeb site. From there you can find a link to all provincial GenWebs. Most of the provinces have email lists just like this one, who may point you in directions other than Government agencies. We are usually pretty helpful folk as well-:) We may be able to find links to obituaries or online cemetery sites etc. A google search should give you some places to start. May I ask what part of Canada you are interested in, and about what time frame? Please feel free to contact me off list if you wish at caro@sasktel.net Heather SK Canada Bruce Dorward wrote: > I would like to look up records of my great-grandfather's relatives in Canada and their decendants which means finding BMD records outside the period covered by, say, Ancestry on-line. I need to get as far as the late 1950s at least. Other than going to a public record office or library with microfilm copies in Canada there seems to be no other way of getting this information. > > A Google search brings up several US based organisations that claim to be able to access public records, legally and confidentially, for a remarkably low fee. I tried the "sampler" on one such web-site (OnlinePublicRecordsSearch.com) and the search engine produced a report saying that some considerable amount of records information was available ... but naturally I would have to pay the subscription to see it. Actually I would have been happy to know his address at the time of his death and where he was buried but anything else, such as the date of his divorce, would have been interesting. > > Has anyone on the list ever used such a service? If so were the results worth having and were there any unforseen problems? > > Cheers, > Bruce D > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://ad.doubleclick. net/clk;211531132;33070124;e)