It's funny, but for about a week now, searches of Births have given poor results. A search for Johnson born any time results in NO hits. A search for anybody in county Bruce results in a large number of hits of births where the mother's maiden name was Bruce. I think Ancestry owes everybody a week's credit for these databases being useless. Original Message: ----------------- From: Marg McFarlane mmcfarla@telusplanet.net Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:49:11 -0600 To: ontario@rootsweb.com Subject: [ONTARIO] Ancestry records Hi List: For those of you with subscriptions to Ancestry's Canadian record collection, or access at your library, FHC, etc, they have added 2 more years of each type of records: Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1909 - New/Updated Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1934 - New/Updated Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924 - New/Updated Re the marriages, I have found today (Friday) that the search engine is not working properly, likely due to adding more years of records, as I can't search by criteria such as parents' names, or location, etc. I imagine that will be resolved over the next few days. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint

Hi: I have noticed so difficulties as well and assume that it has something to do with the additional years of reg's that they are adding. As well, perhaps they are going to add additional fields to use when searching. I just tried searching Ontario birth reg's for Johnson only, no first name or date, got over 4000 hits. Then I searched all births of any surname in Bruce County and got over 51,000 hits. Perhaps they are up and running now. You could always contact them and ask for one. Click on My Account when you are on an Ancestry screen, then on the tab Email Ancestry Support or you can chat with a support agent tomorrow, or you can phone tomorrow: Ancestry.com - Chat with a Support Agent Please Note: • Chat support is available: Monday - Friday: 09:00 AM - 07:00 PM EDT Saturday - Sunday: Closed • It is currently Monday, Oct. 01, 2007 08:11 PM EDT Or you can telephone from Canada: Canada 1-800-ANCESTRY (262-3787) (toll free) Monday - Friday : 9:00 am - 6:00 pm EST Saturday - Sunday : Closed Marg in Sunny Alberta dancer1@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: >It's funny, but for about a week now, searches of Births have given poor >results. A search for Johnson born any time results in NO hits. A search >for anybody in county Bruce results in a large number of hits of births >where the mother's maiden name was Bruce. I think Ancestry owes everybody a >week's credit for these databases being useless. > >Original Message: >----------------- >From: Marg McFarlane mmcfarla@telusplanet.net >Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:49:11 -0600 >To: ontario@rootsweb.com >Subject: [ONTARIO] Ancestry records > > >Hi List: > >For those of you with subscriptions to Ancestry's Canadian record >collection, or access at your library, FHC, etc, they have added 2 more >years of each type of records: > >Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1909 - New/Updated >Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1934 - New/Updated >Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924 - New/Updated > >Re the marriages, I have found today (Friday) that the search engine is >not working properly, likely due to adding more years of records, as I >can't search by criteria such as parents' names, or location, etc. I >imagine that will be resolved over the next few days. > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? >http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint > > > > >*********** >Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >__________ NOD32 2563 (20071001) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.eset.com > > > > >