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Those doing research on Canadian ancestors may find this of intertest....free info coming your way soon:
Ancestry.ca and FamilySearch Announce Agreement to Digitize and Index Existing Canadian Censuses
11 November 2008
Joint initiative provides online access to a comprehensive collection of Canadian censuses
TORONTO, ON—Ancestry.ca, Canada's leading online family history website, is pleased to announce a joint initiative with FamilySearch International, a nonprofit organization that maintains one of the world's largest repositories of genealogical resources. The joint initiative will allow the organizations to improve online access to a comprehensive collection of Canadian censuses.
As part of the agreement, FamilySearch will digitize and index Canadian census records that Ancestry.ca has acquired. These digitized and indexed records will then be made available to Ancestry.ca members on the company's website, and in time the indexes will also be available to the public at FamilySearch.org. The images will be free to qualified FamilySearch members and all FamilySearch family history centers.
FamilySearch will deliver images and indexes to Ancestry.ca for censuses from 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1916 Censuses to launch online in 2009. In return, Ancestry.ca will provide images and indexes to FamilySearch for the 1851, 1891, 1901 and 1906 Censuses.
Karen Peterson, Marketing Director, Ancestry.ca, comments: "Teaming with FamilySearch will enable Ancestry.ca to significantly reduce the time and costs involved in delivering these important historical records online for our members. Also, it will free up resources for Ancestry.ca to invest in other historical records our members want made available online."
Paul Nauta, Public Affairs Manager for FamilySearch, comments: "FamilySearch is committed to providing economical access to more historical records quicker. The Canadian Census project with Ancestry.ca is in alignment with that directive for Canadian records and will be well received by anyone with Canadian ancestry."
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For further information, interviews, images, and case studies:
Media Profile (Ancestry)
Patrick Erlich / Erin O'Reilly
416-504-8464
[email protected] / [email protected]
FamilySearch
Paul Nauta
801-240-6498
[email protected]
ABOUT ANCESTRY.CA
Ancestry.ca is part of the global network of Ancestry websites (wholly owned by The Generations Network, Inc.), which contains seven billion names in 26,000 historical record collections. To date more than 7.5 million family trees have been created and 750 million names and 12.5 million photographs uploaded. 6.5 million unique visitors logged on to an Ancestry website in September 2008.The Ancestry global network of family history Web sites is wholly owned by The Generations Network, Inc.
ABOUT FAMILYSEARCH
FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons may access FamilySearch free services and resources online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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