I don't have many Canadians to dig up, but what I've found on-line is spotty. I believe that for much of the data, someone would have to visit the offices in question, which doesn't come cheap. This is compounded by the fact that many of the stats are held provincially rather than federally. Only older records are on - line and which varies from province to province. I'd be very careful of services based in the US because they tend to focus only on the US, in spite of what they say. However, here are some possibilities for help: 1. The roots web lists for Canada - I've found people generally as helpful as they are on this one. 2. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html. <http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html> Library and Archives Canada. It has the censuses, some immigration and emigration info and others. It also tells you who has what and how to contact them. http://www.islandnet.com/~cghl/ <http://www.islandnet.com/%7Ecghl/> A site which has links on the side to genealogical groups, sites etc by province. Alison Vancouver PS I've just run a public records search on the site you mentioned for a relative who was born in England in 1882, spent a few years in BC prior to WWI and died in 1918. They have his contact information, apparently! angus-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:58:13 -0000 > From: "Bruce Dorward" <personal@dorrit41jbd.bbmax.co.uk> > Subject: [ANGUS] Companies offering "access to public records" > To: "Angus List" <Angus@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <393706D1935A4207A40CF9404612796F@LENOVO933EDC27> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 > > >