If the project is slowed by the shortage of decent scans, why don't we get scans from 1837online.com? OK, OK, I know we have to pay for them, but we are currently having to buy film from GRO, buy expensive scanners and do scanning, all of which costs FreeBMD money. It has all already been done by the 1837online chaps. And if the shortage of scans is not the limiting factor in moving the project forward faster - what is? Do we want more transcribers? John Fairlie Mail us at ..... john@fairlie.plus.com john.fairlie@blueyonder.co.uk Home page... http://www.fairlie.plus.com