Hi Shirley I totally appreciate your concerns, perhaps the following may help. Some of our scans leave a little to be desired, for example if you take a look at scan http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/GUS/1849/Births/September/UKD-02/A-H/1849B3-C-0638.tif which covers the block of records you were searching for you will see the difficulty in producing a truly accurate transcription. We will be replacing the poor quality scans in the future to improve the accuracy of our records. Files can be uploaded even if they contain contain "Uncertain character format" such as * etc and in the interim I would think most searchers would wish to see as many records as possible on FreeBMD warts and all (this does't mean more records at the expense of quality). Searchers can then decide for themselves whether to use the search results or not. Not all the records in the file containing the entries you were searching for contain "Uncertain character format" and if we were to prevent uploading this file it would immediately preclude access to the these "good" records. Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Bowley <shirley@georgy-porgys.com> To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 30 September 2003 17:37 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 >