Norma normington.h@googlemail.com wrote: Hi there folks, Is it possible to access these YOP transcriptions of MI's? Norma   The answer to that question is YES and No!  By that I mean there is NO access on line but YES there is access to the MI data in local libraries and archives. These surveys were funded by the Manpower Service Commission (a UK gov agency operating in the early 1970s) The original transcriptions were deposited with D&G Library Services, I suppose that makes the orginal MI transcriptions HMSO copyright. Those for Kirkcudbrightshire were typed up and bound into books and are available in local reference libraries. Those for Dumfriesshire were typed up on to cards, and are avialble in Dumfries Archives Centre. The cards were microfilmed and thes are available in local libraries [DGFHS also have a copy in microfiche format].  DGFHS have resurveyed some of these graveyards in recent years and published updates.  See www.dgfhs.org.uk and click on Publications. Sandy On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Sandy PITTENDREIGH <sypittdg@btinternet.com> wrote: ......I'm familiar with a number of these MI surveys done under the Youth Opportinties Programmes of the 1970s and have carried out photo surveys in many graveyards in D&G. Such mistakes are not uncommon, I have seen 'gardeners' transcribed as 'grenadiers' and 'shoe makers' transcribed as 'school masters' or vic versa.  I uunderstant that some of those involved in the surveys were 'pressed men', reluctant participants in schemes they weren't interested in or didn't understand.   Despite saying that, the YOP work and that of the volunteers who supervised these schemes in D&G has preserved a lot of very useful genealogical data which has since been been lost in the subsequent forty years of graveyard decay due to weather and other factors..... >