There are no *checkers* as such. You check your own transcriptions and that is it until a second keying is done. The second keying will be done from better quality source (hopefully) at least better quality source is promised. No-one follows behind you and fills in the blanks that the first transcriber could not fill in. It could be argued that if the first scan is *that* bad, what was the point in doing it at all? But I am doing hand-written now, and despite scans looking dire at first glance, I still feel that I can get 75% of entries with no uncertain characters and most of those that cannot be deciphered are only in the page number. Perhaps some transcribers are better employed on typeset source. John Fairlie Mail us at ..... john@fairlie.plus.com john.fairlie@blueyonder.co.uk Home page... http://www.fairlie.plus.com -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Bowley [mailto:shirley@georgy-porgys.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:53 AM To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Quality query I have just run a search on COLLINS, Elizabeth, Sept qtr 1849 and the results are absolutely littered with ** and _ marks. I can't see any point in uploading the data when it looks like this, especially with districts missing. I expect someone can enlighten me, but is there a reason for this of which I'm unaware? If the original is so illegible that the checkers can't tell either, is the page uploaded anyway? Shirley Worcester, England ============================== 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