On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 20:57:00 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <mailman.44.1446563590.30538.genbrit@rootsweb.com>, Guy >Etchells via <genbrit@rootsweb.com> writes: >[] >>Thanks Eve. >>The contract went to FMP as Anscestry would not take the huge risk to >>digitise, transcribe & index the Register. >>I don't know if you remember Ancestry dropped out of the 18911 contract >>when they worked out how much it would cost them and the risk they >>would have to take. >>FMP at least had the courage in their convictions and took the risk. >>Cheers >>Guy > >Ancestry now also offer the 1911 census (though I think they had the >"redacted" column in place rather longer than FMP did). > >So are Ancestry just reselling FMP scans and transcriptions, or did they >eventually do their own after all? > Somebody raised that question around 3-4 years ago. IIRC the indexing then was different enough to suggest they were independent of each other; IME each seemed to have their own non-matching errors as would be expected when done by different people.

On 04/11/2015 22:04, Charles Ellson via wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 20:57:00 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" > <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> In message <mailman.44.1446563590.30538.genbrit@rootsweb.com>, Guy >> Etchells via <genbrit@rootsweb.com> writes: >> [] >>> Thanks Eve. >>> The contract went to FMP as Anscestry would not take the huge risk to >>> digitise, transcribe & index the Register. >>> I don't know if you remember Ancestry dropped out of the 18911 contract >>> when they worked out how much it would cost them and the risk they >>> would have to take. >>> FMP at least had the courage in their convictions and took the risk. >>> Cheers >>> Guy >> Ancestry now also offer the 1911 census (though I think they had the >> "redacted" column in place rather longer than FMP did). >> >> So are Ancestry just reselling FMP scans and transcriptions, or did they >> eventually do their own after all? >> > Somebody raised that question around 3-4 years ago. IIRC the indexing > then was different enough to suggest they were independent of each > other; IME each seemed to have their own non-matching errors as would > be expected when done by different people. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENBRIT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Yes the later licensees used the original scans but did their own indexing and conciliation of the redacted column. Cheers Guy