Hi, Steve Gaunt wrote: > > To my knowledge nobody is actively transcribing quarters after 1900, most input seems to be personal records of transcribers. Has the ONS banned me from putting my granny on the site? > I can understand not wanting to upset them but that's going too far I think. Do they supply us with original material or financial help? You can add the records to your files, we do not stop that in any way. They could make our lives difficult by refusing to allow us to show the scans or have them online in any way. They -are- the copyright holders of the films. At the end of the day we would rather be on good terms than bad terms and they have their reasons and asked us if we would re-impose the restriction. At this stage of the project and pending the review details coming out, we didn't see any pressing reason why we should resist it too strongly. Among the other items discussed was us adding something to the website asking people to use a reference of FREEBMD when ordering certificates where they have the reference from the site. This would enable them to give a better service in terms of understanding our potential error rates and realising that a transcription error might exist. We will continue to review it and discuss it with them. Cheers Graham > Steve Gaunt > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.280 / Virus Database: 147 - Release Date: 11/9/2001