Films for all the missing years/events 1904 to 1910 were ordered and are now with Archive CD Books to scan. Some of the scans from this order have already been uploaded to the FreeBMD site. A further order for Marriages 1843, 1845, 1847, 1857, 1861, 1862 & 1863 is with the ONS with expected delivery Mid Feb 2004. Derek Hopkins has also uploaded more scans within the last couple of days for Births 1886, 1887 and 1888. Although it looks as if our ordering process is somewhat hotchpotch, we deliberately ordered the films for 1904 to 1910 years to provide sufficient source for Syndicates. Films for Marriages 1843, 1845, 1847, 1857, 1861, 1862 & 1863 were ordered to fill in some of the missing gaps in our scans. We will systematically order films for any years (1837 to 1910) which are currently devoid of scans and then order new films for those event/periods which have poor quality scans on the FreeBMD site. Dave Mayall is in the best situation to answer progress on our new hardware. I see no reason why we cant produce a regular bulletin to report progress. 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 13:29 Subject: NEW SCANS >Below is just an extract of a message from Dave Mayall - Discuss List - 11/09/2003. > >>>We are embarking on a project *NOW* to complete scanning in a logical order. We can do this now because we are in a sufficiently stable financial position to do so. The plan is; >1) Install additional hardware to handle the extra scans > >2) Complete scanning of all years all events from 1910 to 1866 working backwards<< > >>>Time-scales are always difficult, but current guess is new hardware on-line by end October 03, Source 1866-1910 on-hand by same time > >1866-1910 scans available gradually from November to January 04 > >1837-1856 marriage source on hand by early January 04 > >1837-1856 scans available February - June 2004 > >Beyond that time-scales are too vague to be useful. << > >I know there has been a problem with the hard ware and wondered if someone might give us an update into how things are progressing? Also are there any plans to post messages from time to time of the progress? It would be nice as I am sure there are others like me who are interested. > > > >Lucille > >Scan2 > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >