Hello Tom, My earlier comments were in the form of questions, no criticism of you or the project was implied. I said: [I'm not sure it makes sense to repeat the process. Wouldn't it be more useful to produce a new resource by transcribing the 71, 91 or 01?] By that statement I was stating that I couldn't understand the logic behind a project which aimed duplicate work already done. You said, >FreeCEN is aiming to start with the 1841 census for Scotland, making the >whole of the country available for searching at one site. So when I >volunteered and was accepted, I ordered the films (or rather CDs in this >case) from the LDS..... >Of course I want the census records from 1871 to be available also >(the records from 1881 to 1901 not yet having been approved by the GRO(S)), and aim to >continue the project past 1841 if it proves feasable. That explanation answers a lot of questions, even some I didn't ask. I already knew that UK based projects couldn't publish Census years without GROS approval. I wasn't aware that ruling applied outside UK. I also accept what you say when you refer to the DGFHS booklets: >....I wouldn't have been sure which parish to >order to be able to find the various families that I was researching. >Only an on-line data base would have helped that. >That is why I still feel that this project is important. >I am sorry that Sandy and Edward don't agree with this. Like Edward, I also say that the production of an online database for the whole of Scotland is a laudable aim. And I'm glad that my misunderstandings have been put right. Good luck with your efforts to recruit transcribers. Cheers, Sandy