<<snipped>> 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. <<snipped>> While I agree hugely that we should be grateful for the Cheshire Collection, we should not ignore the issues. I would gladly complain at organisation X if I knew *which* organisation has the *responsibility* for ensuring that the Cheshire Collection does what it "says on the tin". Right now, we don't know who has that responsibility. In the latest instance, I know that that the missing images were filmed by the LDS - I've seen at least one of them. I can speculate about the reason that the data was lost, using my experience in IT, but that's hardly helpful. I can, however, say that the measure of an organisation is not that it doesn't make mistakes, but in how it deals with those (inevitable) issues. And right now, we don't even know if FMP understand that there are issues. Put it another way - I am intensely relaxed about there being issues in the Cheshire Collection - so long as I know that something is being done about them. <<snipped>>so it's very annoying when the record you get excited about turns out to be the one that's missing, but ... <<snipped>> Except that in the case of the missing marriage licence bonds or allegations, I had no reason to assume that the documents had survived, so no reason to ask the CRO or to take the train up there. Ditto the missing probate stuff. We have to alert people to the possibilities that stuff is missing rather than non-existent. Adrian B