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 > >