FFHS-NEWS Ancestry.ca and FamilySearch Announce Agreement to Digitize and Index Existing Canadian Censuses

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

10 November 2008

Ancestry.ca and FamilySearch Announce Agreement to Digitize and Index
Existing Canadian Censuses 
Initiative provides online access to a comprehensive collection of Canadian
censuses  
Toronto, ON—Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading online family history Web site, is
pleased to announce a joint initiative with FamilySearch
<http://www.familysearch.org/>  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
Web site, and the indexes will be available for free 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, to launch online in 2009. In return,
Ancestry.ca will provide indexes to FamilySearch for the 1891 and 1901
censuses. 
Maggie Loughran 
Joint Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies 
*  admin at ffhs.org.uk 
www.ffhs.org.uk <http://www.ffhs.org.uk/>  

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