Without specific information from Admin at FreeBMD (and it's not vital enough to use up their time) I guess it's not possible to know precisely which alphabetical parts of each quarter of every year have been passed to Ancestry. I know the transcriptions are completed in dribs and drabs - leastways that's how mine get uploaded! It's just that relative newbies don't always realise that the Ancestry database is an always-out-of-date version of the data on FreeBMD. Ancestry do make it clear that they are publishing FreeBMD data, but their users don't always read the information which is provided! But I've discovered that recent participants in the family history game don't read much anyway - they seem to assume it's all on the net and easy to do! How much they miss out on, and how erroneous their search results, I wouldn't like to judge! Jay On 21 Oct 2005, at 03:54, tony harrington wrote: > hi Jay > I have been transcribing for just a short time and have been doing > my own research for a lot longer, I have found several entries on > free bmd that are not on the ancestry database so either they are > doing something to the files before putting them on line or they > are a long way behind in updating their database with the info > freebmd pass to them??? have also found some (dare i say) obvious > errors in their census pages. > tonyh42 > ----- Original Message ----- From: "genmail" <genmail@btinternet.com> > To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 6:21 AM > Subject: Re: bouquets > > > >> Presumably Mr Haskell does know that Ancestry are publishing the >> FreeBMD produced indexes - not doing their own??? >