This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.canada.cangenweb/4936.4.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What I should have said, is that the films online at ancestry are a digitization of the same films available through the Ontario Archives and the LDS. Yes, both the LDS and the Archives have records that extend a couple of years past what ancestry has, but in the years in which you are searching (1870s), the information is the same -- the indexing can sometimes be less than great, but I have searched using first names only and by the date of birth (including give or take a couple of years). There are no death registrations available to the general public in Ontario past the 1934 date. Each year, another year of records are released to the archives.