Scans from Derek were done by a separate organisation in Canada. Archive CD Books are based in England which means I can deliver the films to them for scanning as soon as they arrive with me. Improvement in quality of scans depends to a great extent on the source films/fiche. Yes, I have visited Archive CD Books with Dave Mayall and they are very professional, they do scanning for a living and we are pleased with the quality offered by them. Poor quality scans in the past most likely was due to bad source rather than the organisation that actually did the scanning on behalf of FreeBMD. My initials thoughts are that we have a "News Flash" Web Page, which can be updated on demand. 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 16:58 Subject: NEW SCANS >Thank you Allan a few questions if you don't mind. > >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? > >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? > >When can transcribers expect to see an improvement in the quality of the scans? > >I am assuming that the Archive CD Books scans are really good and you have seen them, so are they a big improvement on some we have had so far? > >A regular bulletin on the progress would be appreciated, thanks. > >Lucille > > >============================== >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 >