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    1. Obvious original errors
    2. Philip Powell
    3. I've had a good look round the site to see if there is an answer available but with no success. Is there a mechanism in place to report obvious[0] errors on the original scans? I'm not talking about 'spelling mistakes', smudges or faint entries but things like the 2[1]I've seen: a) 'Soseph' in a typeset scan after 'John' and before 'Lucy' - making it a reasonable assumption that the typesetter had picked up an 'S' instead of a 'J'; b) 'Elizabeth' in both the forename and district columns in an otherwise perfect handwritten scan where there was no doubt about a single letter or number on the scan. In this particular case, the clerk who had numbered the pages at the top had clearly spotted it as he'd added ??? after both occurrences. 0: for some value of 'obvious' (-: 1: my experience so far would indicate that there is about a 1:10 000 chance of such an error. -- Philip Powell

    10/04/2001 01:55:24