Dick Eastman has answered a question I get asked often. The reasons he gives apply to museums and other repositories of documents. Somehow or other, we have to pay for the hydro, the heat, the staff salaries, groundskeeping and on and on. Think about it the next time you balk at the price of having someone else do your research for you. And yes, someone also has to pay for the subscription to Ancestry.ca. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/11/why-isnt-it-fre.html Pam