Lucille I know you are particularly keen to know how thing are progressing on the scans and hardware front and I concluded the various discussion by mentioning I would have a look at doing a "News Flash" Web Page to keep everyone up to date. I've gone away from this idea and instead have gone down the road of including details of scan progress etc in our News Page at: http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/news.html . So if you need to know progress on scans etc, this is the place to look in future. I will be arranging to have it updated as soon as possible after the next update has been completed. I have nothing further to report until then. Regards Allan Raymond From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: NEW SCANS Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 21:55:24 -0000 I'm sorry I am not going to devote any more of my time to this discussion. I just happen to think I have answered all the questions already. When I have further news to report I will do so at that time. Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: L Hambling <l.hambling@ntlworld.com> To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 06 December 2003 19:58 Subject: NEW SCANS >Allan > >I am going to keep this on the list because I think people are interested in what is going on. > >You said: > >> Scans from Derek were done by a separate organisation in Canada.< > >Does that mean that Scan2 won't see any improvement in the quality of their scans? > >You also say: > >> My initials thoughts are that we have a "News Flash" Web Page, which can be >> updated on demand.< > >This sounds very interesting, can you explain how it might work? > >You still haven't answered these questions: > >1 >If some of the scans have already been uploaded when do you think we will >> start on a more logical order of transcribing and what will that order be? > >2 You say *Derek Hopkins has also uploaded more scans within the last couple >> of days for Births 1886, 1887 and 1888* are these scans from Archive CD Books?< > >3 >When can transcribers expect to see an improvement in the quality of the >> scans? > >Lucille