Is there any kind soul out there who has access to the East York, Ontario National Registration Census File of 1940. I know that it can be purchased. My grandmother Bessie Gertrude WOOD/s ne: PERRIN is on this Census and I would love to have a copy of it. She was born in 1904 and her records are sitting in limbo waiting to be filed at the Archives. Until I can obtain her death and birth cert from the Archives, Vital Stats won't release the 1940 census documents they have on her to me...even though I have my birth cert, my mother's birth cert and my grandmother's marriage cert. They also want 50.00 for her 1940 census records. It could be a year before the Archives are able to get those documents for me. I thought that my grandmother had died in 1978 and was buried in Eden Cemetery, Peterborough Twp, Fenlon Falls. A very kind and generous researcher looked in the 1978 newspapers and could find no Obit. Two years ago I wrote to Vital Stats for my grandmother's death cert and they sent me the wrong person's cert. Then by the time we got the error sorted out they told me they sent her information all to the Archives. If I lived in Ontario I would go down to the Archives or Library and pour through pages of info but " no can do!". If someone out there can offer some suggestions I sure could use them as I am getting frustrated. I still don't understand why we are refused information on our own family and especially if one is NOT adopted......Chris. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.249 / Virus Database: 122 - Release Date: 13/04/01