It seems there is no unique data at the site, rather it consolidates searching many sites using one form. The site has banner ads. According to the site registration it is Ottawa-area based. Being new there are no usage statistics.
The individual databases referenced are:
- Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Non-Catholic Baptisms in the Montréal Area (1766-1835)
- Births at Sea - Grosse-Île (1837-1913)
- Baptisms at Grosse-Île (1832-1937)
- Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Register (1825-1910)
- Prince Edward Island Baptismal Index (1777-1886)
- Non-Catholic Marriages in the Montréal Area (1766-1899)
- Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Licences (1779-1865)
- Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Bonds (1779-1865)
- Marriages at Grosse-Île (1832-1937)
- Divorce in Canada (1841-1968)
- Non-Catholic Burials in the Montréal Area (1767-1899)
- Burials at Grosse-Île (1832-1937)
- Deaths at Sea - Grosse-Île (1832-1922)
- Hospital Registers at Grosse-Île (1832-1921)
- Grosse Île Cemeteries (1832-1937)
- Guysborough County, Nova Scotia Burial Index
- Register of Interments in Mount Hermon Cemetery (1848-1904)
- Census and Enumerations
- Immigration and Citizenship
- Toronto Office Assisted Immigration Registers (1865-1883)
- Citizenship Registration Records for the Montreal Circuit Court (1851-1945)
- Home Children (1869-1930)
- Immigrants to Canada before 1865
- Immigrants from the Russian Empire (LI-RA-MA Collection)
- Immigration Records (1925-1935)
- Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book (1832)
- Upper Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records (1828-1850)
- Newfoundland Register of Arrivals (1910-1949) and Outward Registrations (1906-1950)
- Port of New Westminster, BC Register of Chinese Immigration (1887-1908)
- General Registers of Chinese Immigration (1885-1949)
- List of Major Denis Mahon's Sharecroppers (1847)
- Boards of Guardians (1886-1916)
- Land
- Military
- People
That counter makes the whole website look dodgy, the way it keeps on flashing. Even if the website builder is straight, he/she may have been scammed.
ReplyDeleteHi Pat,
ReplyDeleteI am one of the developers on genealogysearch.ca. The site is legitimate even if it does look "dodgy." The genealogysearch.ca Website is part of an effort to provide a consolidated view of Canadian genealogical data. A "one stop shop" if you will, for people researching their Canadian roots.
As developer of genealogysearch.ca, I would welcome any constructive comments you have to offer as well as any requests for additional functionality you think would be useful to the community as a whole. As was pointed out, we have just started and so this is a good time to get your comments in :)
If you want to talk about this a bit more feel free to email me at jgriffin316 at gmail dot com.
BTW, what do you mean by "flashing"? Was it the site as a whole or just the banner ads? We are trying to use banner ads to keep this thing from burning to deep a hole in our pockets but if enough people find them annoying I'll see what we can do to tone them down.
John