Joint initiative provides online access to a comprehensive collection of Canadian censuses
(Toronto, ON – November 11, 2008) 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.”
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION / INTERVIEWS / IMAGES/ CASE STUDIES:
Media Profile
Patrick Erlich / Erin O’Reilly
416-504-8464
erlich@mediaprofile.com / erin@mediaprofile.com
FamilySearch
Paul Nauta
801-240-6498
NautaPG@familysearch.org
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