Just passing this along, as I'd like to know the answer also. >Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 09:35:11 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: gcollins@vaxxine.com Sun Jan 20 09:35:10 2002 >X-Sender: gcollins@vaxxine.com >Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:48:57 -0500 >Old-To: ONTARIO-L@rootsweb.com >From: Gail Collins <gcollins@vaxxine.com> >Old-Cc: editor@ancestry-inc.com >Subject: [Ont] Ancestry.com databases >Resent-Message-ID: <lG3MiB.A.OyD._GvS8@lists2.rootsweb.com> >To: ONTARIO-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: ONTARIO-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <ONTARIO-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/6074 >X-Loop: ONTARIO-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: ONTARIO-L-request@rootsweb.com >X-RCPT-TO: <jones@encode.com> > >These databases below were posted on Ancestry.com's Weekly Digest - now >how can they charge to view something that is already online and FREE?? > >Ancestry.com - DATABASES POSTED THIS WEEK - Jan 20, 2002) >British Columbia Birth Index: 1872 to 1899 >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D6092 > >British Columbia Death Index: 1872 to 1979 >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D6093 > >British Columbia Marriage Index: 1872 to 1924 >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=1644&key=D6095 > >BC Archives - searchable databases of indexes to British Columbia birth >registrations for the years 1872 to 1901, marriage registrations for the >years 1872 to 1926, and death registrations for the years 1872 to 1981. >Births > http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/index.htm >Death > http://www2.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2vsd >Marriages > http://www2.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2vsm > >AND a more up-to-date database! > >If someone on this list is also on the BC mailing list, as I'm not, you >might forward this to that group. I also sent a copy of this to >Ancestry.com so shall see if I get any plausible explanation. > >Beats me but proves one should check out resources available online before >jumping ahead and paying for something you don't need to. > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Very simple. They can charge for anything that they post on their site. The record itself is free, but not the access to it on Ancestry. Just goes to show that Barnum is still right. There are suckers born every minute. L. Stewart -- GENEALOGY IS MY VICE: Searching: Moore, Peers, Stewart, Thompson in Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia; Provorse & Wright in Ontario; Johnston & Black in Manitoba. Burrows in IA/WI/MN/NY and any descendant of Walter Cooke of Weymouth and Mendon, MA. COOKE-STEWART-WRIGHT on my Web Page http://home.pacbell.net/lstewart