Hi Paul This discussion is happening on Warwicks list as well and I've just said the same thing there (in a lot more words though!)... your sentence sums it up exactly. That's the reason why we still need free and/or locally produced transcriptions - ones with high quality standards and accuracy - as well as the images at Ancestry. All the best Celia -----Original Message----- From: Paul Irving [mailto:pauljirving@ntlworld.com] Sent: 30 April 2005 15:53 To: BUCKS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BKM] BGS 1861 Census CD & Ancestry version <snip> In putting census images online & making them searchable, Ancestry is providing a useful service. But it's frustrating that they do it so badly! Paul -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.0 - Release Date: 29/04/05 ==== BUCKS Mailing List ==== As of 30 December 2004: 386 list subscribers 175 digest subscribers 561 total subscribers

On Saturday, April 30, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Celia Renshaw wrote: > That's the reason why we still need free and/or locally produced > transcriptions - ones with high quality standards and accuracy - as > well as > the images at Ancestry. Absolutely. We also need *both* indexed transcriptions AND scanned images of parish registers. Without both, the latitude for research errors is simply far too wide. -Sandy >