Hi At least when you look at the census at the Archive they have a map there that tells you where the ward of a city or what district a town is in. Sheila Behan hilda wrote: > Haven't any of you dealt with original census records before? When you > borrow a microfilm of a census, you have to know what area of the country to > look at, and there is no index. > > Hilda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dennis Bell" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:52 PM > Subject: Re: [SCTCDN] 1901 Census > > > Hi Shari: > > > > You're right. The good old Canadian government has, in its usual > inimitable fashion, spent a few hundred thousand of our tax dollars setting > up a 1901 census website that is absolutely useless. In > > order to find somebody, you must already know about 99.999 per cent of the > census data you seek. Catch 22, magnified by the site's apparent inability > to cope with any kind of modern computer , PCs or > > Macs. You cannot run a simple surname search, the common denominator of > just about every other genealogy site in the world. So why in the heck are > the pencilnecks at the National Archives so worried > > about their new site being swamped by excited, happy customers is utterly > beyond me. Unless they think aliens from Outrer Space are trying to contact > them. > > > > dennis bell in british columbia > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Hello List, Is it just me or is it IMPOSSIBLE to get on the Census > site? > > > Every time I try, it's Action Cancelled or Page Not Found. Regards, > Shari > > > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > > > To unsubscribe: [email protected] inserting the > word unsubscribe in both the subject line and the text area and using a > fresh email to do it. Use -D- if you are in Digest mode. > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe: [email protected] inserting the word > unsubscribe in both the subject line and the text area and using a fresh > email to do it. Use -D- if you are in Digest mode. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe: [email protected] inserting the word unsubscribe in both the subject line and the text area and using a fresh email to do it. Use -D- if you are in Digest mode. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237