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Access FREE* Immigration Records from
around the world until September 6th

From September 1st through 6th we're offering Canadians the opportunity to search our Worldwide collection of Immigration Records for FREE!*

*Offer valid until September 6th at midnight ET, 2010. To view these records, you will need to register for free with Ancestry.ca with your name and e-mail address. We will then send you a user name and password to access the records. If you haven't already, you will be prompted to register once you start trying to search and view records. After September 6th at midnight ET, 2010, you will only be able to view these records using an Ancestry.ca paid membership.

This was the announcement on the .ca site, but they're free at all sites.
NB 12pm ET is 5am on the 7th in UK

mgnv, thank you!

I just saw your reference to this on a TTF thread.

I let my sub to .ca lapse when I'd found what I needed myself (my people being Canadian only in the last 100 years), but have a few things I'd like to check -- and now I can also correct all the idiot mistranscriptions of my tribe in the databases. ;)

And I have just spent the time since that post noting up all my people arriving in Canada, correct spellings, former names, future names, relationships with others arriving ... And I found my errant grandfather arriving in Canada, finally! FMP had given me my grandmother and aunt coming later, but dog knows what they've transcribed him as, because I could never find him -- crystal clear as his name is on the passenger list image. Maybe now I can figure it out. ;)

So just a mild kick for this so anyone it's useful to might notice.

JC - yeah, I had a busy 6-8h looking up everyone I could think of. Many disappointments - my dad's multiple trips aren't there as he was crew not passenger - but some great hits - I found the cousins he stayed with, as well as much to-ing and fro-ing of my ex's gran's cousins.

Now I need access to the Drouin BMDs and the early 20th cent US censuses - roll on the next freebie, eh.

Aha, I forgot about my gramma going back to visit right after WWI! More work ...

I may have more luck figuring out whether Uncle Charlie's brother also came over as a Home Child than at collectionscanada, too. My mum just reminded me I'd got the married surname wrong for her aunt ... too many Aunt Jessies in my family ... she's the one who married Uncle Charlie, so that reminded me of him ...

I don't have as many as you! A family unit (married gr-grparents and kids) in 1909 followed by the straggler son in 1910, a family unit in 1905 (married gr-grparents and kids) (a kid of each married in Canada), and a married grandmother and grandfather coming separately in the 1920s. The odd sibling of a great-grandparent and that sort of thing emigrating around the same time, guess I'd better spend tomorrow looking for them ...

Did you see in my Hill/Monck thread that I found the last surviving sibling of Ernest at long last?? He died about two minutes after I found him, him and his wife and kid, all died between the 81 and the 91, so much for all that work.

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