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