It's surprising that no one has commented on the disappearence of the Drouin Collections from Ancestry.com since about August 31st. I wrote three times to Ancestry and have always received the same vague answer which tells me nothing. This is what I received from them three days ago: "Dear Francis T.,, We appreciate your message. I apologise for your frustration. We have no further information on the Drouin Collection" End of message. After searching the Internet it appears that Jean Pierre Pepin who owns the Drouin Collections has started legal action against Ancestry.com supposedly because they did not live up to the terms of the original agreement signed in 2006 or 2007. So far we only have the Drouin side of the argument since Ancestry has refused to say specifically what the problem is as you can see from their Sept. 11th message. I know that since there was supposed to be a meeting before a Quebec judge on Sept 8th after mediation, one would expect to have had some follow-up message, but so far total silence. Does anyone have any fresh information on this issue? Will we ever see the Drouin Collections on Ancestry.com again? Let's hope that we will and that Ancestry & Drouin come to some satisfatory agreement. Among other bones of contention, Drouin seems now to believe he didn't get enough money from Ancestry when he ceded them the rights to the collections. I see he's also suing the BANQ (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec) What a mess! Frank

You can read it all on the Institut Drouin web site. http://www.institutdrouin.com/Sentencearbitrale_IGD_120809.pdf Michel -----Original Message----- From: quebec-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:quebec-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Francis T. Watters Sent: September 14, 2009 3:37 PM To: quebec@rootsweb.com Subject: [QUEBEC] Ancestry.com & Drouin It's surprising that no one has commented on the disappearence of the Drouin Collections from Ancestry.com since about August 31st. I wrote three times to Ancestry and have always received the same vague answer which tells me nothing. This is what I received from them three days ago: "Dear Francis T.,, We appreciate your message. I apologise for your frustration. We have no further information on the Drouin Collection" End of message. After searching the Internet it appears that Jean Pierre Pepin who owns the Drouin Collections has started legal action against Ancestry.com supposedly because they did not live up to the terms of the original agreement signed in 2006 or 2007. So far we only have the Drouin side of the argument since Ancestry has refused to say specifically what the problem is as you can see from their Sept. 11th message. I know that since there was supposed to be a meeting before a Quebec judge on Sept 8th after mediation, one would expect to have had some follow-up message, but so far total silence. Does anyone have any fresh information on this issue? Will we ever see the Drouin Collections on Ancestry.com again? Let's hope that we will and that Ancestry & Drouin come to some satisfatory agreement. Among other bones of contention, Drouin seems now to believe he didn't get enough money from Ancestry when he ceded them the rights to the collections. I see he's also suing the BANQ (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec) What a mess! Frank . . Search the Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=QUEBEC . Browse the Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/QUEBEC/ . A link to a favorite site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Frank, We discussed this some over at the quebec-research list. The last message over there was that the meeting date was rescheduled for I think Sept. 21. As I understand it, Mr. Pepin went to court because he felt that ancestry did not fulfill the terms of their agreement, in which they were supposed to provide a complete index to the collection by a certain date. The judge told ancestry to remove access to the collection until the whole mess is sorted out. According to list members of q-r who have contacted ancestry, the customer service people have not been given any information on the status of the problem, so they have no answers for the customers who call. All I know is that Mr. Pepin had a contract with ancestry, and he feels they did not live up to the terms of that contract. I hadn't heard he was suing the BANQ too. If you check the mail list archives for quebec-research you can read all the messages from there. If you didn't know, a good deal of the Drouin records are on line but not indexed at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#r=0;p=allCollections Scroll down the page till you get to the Canada collections, then you can select it from there. Lisa llepore@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francis T. Watters" <wattersft@gowebway.com> It's surprising that no one has commented on the disappearence of the Drouin Collections from Ancestry.com since about August 31st. I wrote three times to Ancestry and have always received the same vague answer which tells me nothing. This is what I received from them three days ago: "Dear Francis T.,, We appreciate your message. I apologise for your frustration. We have no further information on the Drouin Collection" End of message. After searching the Internet it appears that Jean Pierre Pepin who owns the Drouin Collections has started legal action against Ancestry.com supposedly because they did not live up to the terms of the original agreement signed in 2006 or 2007. So far we only have the Drouin side of the argument since Ancestry has refused to say specifically what the problem is as you can see from their Sept. 11th message. I know that since there was supposed to be a meeting before a Quebec judge on Sept 8th after mediation, one would expect to have had some follow-up message, but so far total silence. Does anyone have any fresh information on this issue? Will we ever see the Drouin Collections on Ancestry.com again? Let's hope that we will and that Ancestry & Drouin come to some satisfatory agreement. Among other bones of contention, Drouin seems now to believe he didn't get enough money from Ancestry when he ceded them the rights to the collections. I see he's also suing the BANQ (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec) What a mess! Frank