unfortunately, we get what we pay for--our ancestry fees would be much higher if they paid North Americans to do the indexing! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colleen Andrews" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Drouin Collection & Ancestry problems Oh my God...do they do that with all their indexing? It would explain a lot...that's one of the worst examples of exploitive 3rd world labour I've ever heard of. Shame on them.

I would have volunteered to do it. Heather -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sharon Haggerty Sent: August 30, 2009 7:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Drouin Collection & Ancestry problems unfortunately, we get what we pay for--our ancestry fees would be much higher if they paid North Americans to do the indexing!

I think we are very fortunate to be able to access the Drouin Records at all. We are getting caught up in a dream of having every record perfectly indexed when we have to take into consideration many factors - Not the least of which is poor document quality and poor writing skills There is not one of us who hasn't had to search in records that were indexed here in Canada and found either the transcription was wrong or a miss-spelling occured on the original entry (one of my ancestors married James Fry, but the document is incorrectly entered as Try0 Our not too distant ancestors who were trying to get the same family information that we are, had to spend hours going page by page on micro film or throgh dusty books We are so blessed as to what we can access for not a lot of money 1881 Ontario census was mostly done by Englis speaking people who wrote French names phonetically We manage to find those people, and haven't complained this much about those records I have found so much though ancestry.ca and I am personally glad they are there Throgh the Drouin records I have gone back marriage by marriage to my husband's 7th grt granparents Claude Bouchard and Louise Gagne (Gasnier) Georgina Dean Stratford Ontario

That you Georgina, I too have found the Drouin a mine of information.  Where else can you find where a cousin married his cousin, had the priest okay it and then have the Bishop overturn it.....after a lot of begging on the couples side, who have children by the way, and the priest, the bishop gives in and the couple remarries.  Interesting items in there....   I also start with the marriages and work back, by using every spelling of the last name, first name, combining all forms of spellings and when it comes down to the end, if I know where they are from, I use first names and just look at all the records for that name in that area. Sometimes I have to do both husband and wife......   The Ladouceur LaMadeleine took, a couple of hours for each name.....Fun  the excitement of the search.  Much like a mystery story.   By the by, Louise Gagne m to Claude Bouchard was my gr + aunt.   Sharlene Throgh the Drouin records I have gone back marriage by marriage to my husband's 7th grt granparents Claude Bouchard and Louise Gagne (Gasnier) Georgina Dean Stratford Ontario ***************** Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message