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

I have been able to access the site many times but unable to get the viewer "mrsid" to work. First had difficulty downloading a non-corrupt copy and now can't get it to open in Netscape after following the read-me instructions. Has anyone had success with getting it to work? Janet

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 >

Hilda: Of course we have. What we haven't dealt with very much is the total craziness of our federal genealogy "experts." Read the notes that are coming in from those who have tried. NOTHING works at the site. Dennis Bell in British Columbia 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.