Yes, and wasn't there once a mailing list called "News". In fact it is still references on the FBMD web site, but seems to have had no postings since God was a boy. Any news on "News"?? John Fairlie Mail us at ..... john@fairlie.plus.com john.fairlie@blueyonder.co.uk Home page... http://www.fairlie.plus.com -----Original Message----- From: L Hambling [mailto:l.hambling@ntlworld.com] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 1:31 PM To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com 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

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:05:28 -0000, you wrote: >Yes, and wasn't there once a mailing list called "News". In fact it is >still references on the FBMD web site, but seems to have had no postings >since God was a boy. > >Any news on "News"?? News is reserved for External news items, for the simple reason that it goes out to journalists who write articles about FreeBMD. We don't therefore use it for detailed information about the ins and outs of projects. -- Dave Mayall