+ I second Diane's comments re Lesley's mail. Lesley makes a lot of really good points that possibly folk need reminding of. We are all guilty at times of taking for granted how relatively easy it is these days, by comparison, to research our families. I know most of my research these days is done from home on my computer. For which I am really grateful as I have disability isues which makes my getting out and about to libraries, record offices, etc., difficult. I just hope in standing up for FMP this doesn't start a deluge of compalints against the LDS. Please let us not forget that the generosity of the LDS is mostly how the family history research mostly began. I hope that everyone has a Great New Year and enjoys their family history as much s they are able. Val On 10 January 2014 16:16, dianelea <dianelea@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Well said, Lesley! Happy New Year to you and all Listers! > > > > > Sent from Samsung tabletLesley Baxendale <tree.dovercourt17@googlemail.com> wrote:Grumble time again, > > I know people are just trying to be helpful, and I have no wish to > offend anyone, nor am I singling out anyone in particular, but would you > please stop grumbling about the inadequacies of FMP. > > Missing records/images for Cheshire are not necessarily the fault of > FMP. As they state clearly, their records for Cheshire are mostly taken > from LDS films and transcripts, not those held at Cheshire Record Office > - hence there may well be some omissions due to that particular record > not being transcribed or filmed by the LDS. > > In addition, there has been much more work done on the original records > since the LDS work was carried out & that again could well affect what's > available on the FMP site. > > I agree, that they should make an effort to correct what they can and > give proper responses to queries and observations & that certainly > doesn't always happen. > > Don't forget, that it's not that long ago when researching your family > history involved long, arduous and often costly hours spent in record > offices peering into the usually ancient fiche & film readers. For many > of us, that just wasn't an option, so we were well and truly stuck. We > should try and focus on all the good stuff now available from the > comfort of our own homes or local libraries. OK, so it's very annoying > when the record you get exited about turns out to be the one that's > missing, but it's not the end of the world. > > We should just be grateful that the resource is there at all. A query > with the CRO will often produce a copy of the missing record for a small > fee, so all is not lost. > > Rant over. > > Happy New year everyone. > > Lesley Baxendale > Colwyn Bay > > BTW - I have no connection at all with FMP - just a mostly satisfied > subscriber. > > > On 10/01/2014 12:45, Adrian Bruce wrote: >> Regrettably I have found another failure mode for the Cheshire Collection on >> FMP. In this case, images are lost, not hidden. >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message