I've taken digital photos at the FRC too with no problems - these were pages I'd been allocated where the scans were difficult to read. If you e-mail your photos to Bob Philips he'll see they get added to the FreeBMD website as re-scans so that the second keyer is looking at the same high quality scan (actually now a digi-photo) as you. Cheers, Mike In message <KPEBKKALDPOLJGFDLDAEMEDOCCAA.suenchris@ukonline.co.uk>, Sue Smith <suenchris@ukonline.co.uk> writes >I take photos of scans in the FRC in London, and they were fine about it - >no problems with identification, or proof, just a request that I don't use >flash. > >And as Adrian says, you can print your transcription from either WinBMD or >BMDVerify. If you print from BMDVerify, you can just print your marked >queries - you don't need to print the whole lot if you don't want - and then >just check those against your local FRC scan. > >Regards > >Sue Smith >Family Web Site http://www.harriesfamily.net/ > >-----Original Message----- >From: andyjervisuk@tiscali.co.uk [mailto:andyjervisuk@tiscali.co.uk] >Sent: 21 October 2005 17:09 >To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: Photographing Scans > >Dear Keith, Why don't you do what I do when I can't read some entries in >a scan? I print out my transcription ( takes about 7 pages) then take it >to the Family History centre, check my entries with with their film or >fiche, >correct what I need to then go home and make the appropriate corrections. >No problem with copyright laws, just take up a little of your time. I >usually >manage to check 3 or 4 flies in a 2 hour session at the FHC. >Hope thie helps. >Adrian Jervis > >>-- Original Message -- >>From: "Keith Simpson" <Keylotus@ukonline.co.uk> >>Subject: Photographing Scans >>Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:24:01 +0100 >>To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com >> >> >>First may I express my thanks to Bob Phillips for his help with this. >>After visiting my local family record centre and asking for permission to >>photograph various scans which my syndicate find hard to decipher. I was >>informed that copyright rules apply and they would need proof that I was >>part FreeBMD. Yet they had no problem with me looking at the scans at any >>time, subject to appointment, but this defeats the object. >> >>I then wrote to the Central Library in Birmingham, who have copies of the >>fiche and received the following reply, >>"Dear Mr. Simpson, >>I am, of course, aware of the good work that you and your colleagues are >>undertaking. >> I think that there are Copyright issues that you need to address. Anyone >>considering giving you access to the indices would require specific written >>approval from the publishers before going forward with the project. As far >>as I know we are only allowed to let people have an extract from the >>indices for "fair dealing" and this specifically excludes publication. >>Have you approached the Family Record Centre and if so what was their >>response? >> >>Best regards >>Robert Ryland" >> >>Has anyone else had this found this, and how did they overcome it. >> >>Keith Simpson >>Gandalf(uk) >>Syndicate coordinator >> >> >> >> >>==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >>Need to get a fast answer to your transcribing problems? Go to the >>Transcribers Knowledge Base at http://FreeBMD.RootsWeb.com/vol_faq.html >> >>============================== >>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 >> > > >___________________________________________________________ > >Unlimited Tiscali Broadband from 14.99! >http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/ > > > > >==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD Transcribers homepage >http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > >============================== >Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. >Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/143 - Release Date: 19/10/2005 > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/143 - Release Date: 19/10/2005 > > > >==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD Transcribers homepage >http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > >============================== >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 > > > -- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 21/10/2005