I have downloaded file 1867M2-W-0326 from the Scan 2 site. Free WMD refuses to open the file. Neither will Irfanview, Gimp, Adobe Photo De Luxe, and Coral Draw. They all report unknown file format. One of these programs , I think it was GIMP, reported that the file was 'not a jpeg file: starts with 0 x 3c O X 48. Beats me. Any ideas? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/199 - Release Date: 13/12/2005

Peter I'm not aware you can download 1867M2-W-0326 from the Scan2 Web Site. Is there a possibility you quoted the wrong scan reference? Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "PETER PANNELL" <peter.pannell@btinternet.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 14 December 2005 19:06 Subject: Unknown format I have downloaded file 1867M2-W-0326 from the Scan 2 site. Free WMD refuses to open the file. Neither will Irfanview, Gimp, Adobe Photo De Luxe, and Coral Draw. They all report unknown file format. One of these programs , I think it was GIMP, reported that the file was 'not a jpeg file: starts with 0 x 3c O X 48. Beats me. Any ideas? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/199 - Release Date: 13/12/2005 ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== FreeBMD - http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Hi All Scan2 just points to the same place as you quote. (It just drills down for you). There was a problem (Fixed yesterday) where the group had an error. The file you saved was probably an HTML file saying the scan was not available. At 10:41 AM 15/12/2005, Allan Raymond wrote: >Peter > >I'm not aware you can download 1867M2-W-0326 from the Scan2 Web Site. > >Is there a possibility you quoted the wrong scan reference? > >Allan Raymond > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "PETER PANNELL" <peter.pannell@btinternet.com> >To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: 14 December 2005 19:06 >Subject: Unknown format > > >I have downloaded file 1867M2-W-0326 from the Scan 2 site. > >Free WMD refuses to open the file. Neither will Irfanview, Gimp, Adobe >Photo De Luxe, and Coral Draw. They all report unknown file format. One >of these programs , I think it was GIMP, reported that the file was 'not a >jpeg file: starts with 0 x 3c O X 48. > >Beats me. Any ideas? > > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/199 - Release Date: 13/12/2005 > > > >==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD - http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > >==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD - http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com > >============================== >Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >New content added every business day. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx Cheers Derek Derek C Hopkins, Phone +1(450)678-7768 6640, Biarritz, Fax +1(450)678-4252 Brossard, E-Mail derek.hopkins@sympatico.ca QC, Canada, J4Z-2A2. ==== FreeBMD - England and Wales - Birth - Marriage and Death Transcriptions <http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com> ==== Check out FreeBMD Scan2 Syndicate page (revised daily) Please bookmark our new home http://www.scan2.org/scan2.html ==== Check out QFHS Marriage Transcription Project page (revised daily) (Quebec Family History Society) Please bookmark our new home http://www.scan2.org/qfhs.html Check out my web page (22jan1997) Last Revised 28 May 1998 <http://www.cam.org/~hopkde/index.html> Check out Abney Park Indexing Project (revised 14 MAR 2000, 195,000 names) <http://www.cam.org/~hopkde/abney.html> Check out my web Ramsgate page <http://members.adept.co.uk/hopkde> Check out the Quebec Family History web page <http://www.cam.org/~qfhs/index.html>

Peter, I'm not a member of Scan 2, so I looked for this file on the Transcribers' pages on the main FreeBMD site. It should be here: http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1867/Marriages/June/DB-06/ However, the highest numbered W page is 1867M2-W-0245.tif Clearly these files are not JPGs, they're TIFs. I downloaded 1867M2-W-0236.tif and found I could open it with WinBMD, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (the default for TIFs on my PC), and Windows Paint. When I tried to open it with PaintShopPro v5.01 (an oldie but a goody !) I got the error message "An invalid Huffman code was encountered" and it refused to open. I also tried to open it with the Gimp which was successful, but gave me the errors "unknown field with tag 32931 (0x80a3) encountered" and "unknown field with tag 32934 (0x80a6) encountered" in the process. I also tried the next file 1867M2-W-0237.tif with identical results. So, as far as I can see, these files are usable but there's something odd about them. I hope that's of some help. Mike PS. "Free WMD" !?!?! (Freudian slip ?) In message <001001c600e1$6d57ccb0$da878a56@PeterPannell>, PETER PANNELL <peter.pannell@btinternet.com> writes >I have downloaded file 1867M2-W-0326 from the Scan 2 site. > >Free WMD refuses to open the file. Neither will Irfanview, Gimp, >Adobe Photo De Luxe, and Coral Draw. They all report unknown file >format. One of these programs , I think it was GIMP, reported that >the file was 'not a jpeg file: starts with 0 x 3c O X 48. > >Beats me. Any ideas? > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/199 - Release Date: 13/12/2005 > > > >==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD - http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > -- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/200 - Release Date: 14/12/2005