Hi I had trouble myself with the people at the Archives they told me that I should pay money to get the information I was looking for. And all of it was before 1900. I had not trouble find the 1901 census on the Archive Site under site map. But I gave up trying to download when it took so long. Is there any way to tell what the wards of a city are. Sheila Behan christine wrote: > Well, Dennis didn't you know the only people who want to contact the folks > at National Archives are Aliens from Outer Space, National Archives will > never listen to genealogists or researchers so who better than their own > kind!!! > > Christine Joudrey > Guelph, Ontario > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > 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 > > > > > > ==== 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