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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: RunKitty on Saturday 07 October 17 16:59 BST (UK)
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Hi,
Not sure if anyone has posted this, but Ancestry.ca has free access to Canadian and Immigration records this weekend (Oct 6-9). Enjoy :) :)
RK
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Thanks for posting RK. Hope everyone enjoys the free access.
Sandra ;)
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Hi RK,
Can we wish you a belated Happy Birthday - had the 9th in my head until I checked this morning and noticed we had missed it by a few days. :'( :'(
So wishing you a Happy Belated Birthday but hope you had a wonderful day. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers
Sandra
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Thanks for the heads up RK, and another thing to be thankful for this weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving RK ;D
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Happy Belated Birthday RK, hope it was a fab day with yummy cake.
Cheers,
DB
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I have tried to access bmd records for a number of people with no luck. No problem with census, voting records, school records etc.
Ed
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Thanks Sandra and DB for the lovely wishes :) :) :).
Ed - The Ancestry.ca home page says "From Oct 6-9 get Free Access* to all Canadian and Immigration records". I guess they probably should have said "most" or "some" instead of "all". Oh well....I am glad you have been able to access quite a few types of records for free. I expect there will be some free records for Remembrance Day on Nov 11, and perhaps some free US records for American Thanksgiving later on in November. :).
RK
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Thanks RK. When looking for bmd's I was getting an invitation to join Ancestry
Ed
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Thanks RK. When looking for bmd's I was getting an invitation to join Ancestry
So it's not just me :D
I only wanted to find one marriage and one birth. Oh well, they can wait.
Carol
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Looks like a good offer but they keep asking me to sign up for free trial.
Can't get detailed access to records otherwise.
Is there any way round this?
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Hi,
I have an Ancestry account that is not currently active (I turn it on from time to time)...so I have a username/password. As long as I am signed in, even with an inactive sub, I can see the free census records etc. this weekend.
If you are having trouble, you can always get free access to Canadian census records through the Library and Archives Canada site. These records are always free :)
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx
Choose the one you want from the grey bar on the left..and off you go :)
ALso free on that site are WW1 military records (including full military files ... currently in the process of being digitized. Many are already online..see Personnel Records of the First World War)
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/Pages/introduction.aspx
Free Immigration records (though not as easy to use/find records as it is on Ancestry)
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/Pages/introduction.aspx
Lots of other free records are on that site as well :).
RK
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Thanks RK. When looking for bmd's I was getting an invitation to join Ancestry
So it's not just me :D
I only wanted to find one marriage and one birth. Oh well, they can wait.
Carol
Hi Carol,
If you are looking for Ontario births/marriages/deaths, you can find those for free on familysearch
You can also check FS for British Columbia bmd records, or you can find them here
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy
RK