In message <[email protected]>, Dave Mayall <[email protected]> writes >On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:55:40 -0600, you wrote: > >>Hi Barrie >> >>Does this make more sense? >> >>I have access to the BMD indexes at a local family history centre, but I find >>FreeBMD much, much easier and faster to use, especially when I don't know the >>exact date of an event. It can take hours of looking through fiche, and only >>seconds on the computer. Marriages are almost impossible to find if you don't >>know both partners, but FreeBMD can help there. Probably many people don't >>have access to the indexes, and they could use the information in b) >>-- ask for >>a search if reference is inaccurate -- to avoid paying the charge. > >It is our intention to provide a link back to images, to enable people >to examine the index themselves before ordering. Hopefully, searchers will use that when it is available and won't then post "error corrections" to the transcribers. I'm expecting to get one when [or perhaps, if] a searcher ever turns up my SMEDLEY, Soseph from 1868 - positioned between a John and a Martha, I assume it was a typesetting error. Philip Powell Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland to The Cheviot