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