>Hi, > >We are working on this with Ancestry at the moment to see if we can >get any better rescans. > >We are liaising via the coordinators as we get any change but there is >nothing yet to say. We are aware of it and it is on our list of things >we are pushing for but recently we have had holidays,disk crashes, >car crashes! etc etc... > >Talk to your coordinator about not submitting the information. Any >information is better than no information. You are not necessarily >misleading them. You are giving an interpretation which will be matched >by someone else's interpretation of the same information. Anyone using >the site should check back the original source anyway as a check. >FreeBMD helps them to get there. Having said that, we do undertand >the >concern and we are looking into it... > >Cheers > >Graham Rescanning the microfilm may not improve matters unless the film itself is in good condition. Often it is clear that the film has been badly scored/scratched by previous use before being scanned. Apart from this it should be realised that the quality of the original hand-written index pages can vary considerably from page to page. This may have something to do with the treatment and preparation of the parchment pages as a given page (recto and verso) may be white with unfaded ink whilst the adjacent page may be yellowed with faded ink. It would be difficult to obtain an acceptable copy from such a degraded page even by direct scanning. Maybe a list should be compiled of the worst, unreadable scans _together with_ the corresponding index page number (the vital handwritten number at the top) so that a volunteer team could transcribe the pages from the original indexes at the FRC, London. -- Best regards Dick Jones Leigh-on-Sea Essex UK mailto://[email protected]