Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote: >Terry Pinnell wrote: > >snip >> >> Thanks to all for the follow-ups. I should have made the point in my >> OP that I'm starting the current project in the 20th Century. At great >> cost to my eyes, I spent most of yesterday laboriously searching >> 1935-1945 BMD register scans for my first data. For this I bit the >> bullet and plumped my first subscription on The Genealogist, >> http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk. >> > >were you using the horrible fiche? > >I find the images on >http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx easier >to read > >you can enlarge them or change the screen resolution to make things >easier still > >Hugh W Yes, I think they must have been fiche images. They appear as PDFs, so I can change size. But it's the high contrast that gets to me. And I find I'm concentrating so hard that I don't blink much. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK