This note from Paul makes me somewhat jealous There are only 2x fiche readers left in Manchester Central Library [and I far as know: no sign of a .PDF Scanner] I have collected around a total of 400 Births, 400 Deaths and 200 Marriages since 2005 (11 years) and go to the library each year. It probably takes me a good 4 hours each year to search and write them down and perhaps an hour to add them to my database when I get home. The main time taker is scanning for the marriage partner's forename [especially if it is a SMITH !] Best regards Gordon +Z At 04:45 PM 18-05-17, you wrote: >I second Paul Millington's praise of the facilities in Birmingham. I >scanned all the fiche into the same PDF files and downloaded them onto >a thumb drive I did 7 or 8 years for my large-ish ONS with four >variants in a day and a half last year between the Guild conference >and WDYTYA. Typing them up is a task yet to be done, however! >Paul > >On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Howard Laver ><howard@lavertowers.co.uk> wrote: > > If the fiches can be scanned into pdf format surely it would be a simple > > task to send all of them to all county and other interested record offices? > > > > Howard LAVER 3175 > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Paul Millington > > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 2:12 PM > > To: goons-l@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [G] GRO Post-2005 BMD Transcription Project > > > > > > For those in travelling distance of Birmingham library, I would heartily > > recommend the facilities there. > > > > The fiche can be put under a scanner, scanned to a PDF and then e-mailed to > > yourself. I can even check on my Ipad/phone before I leave the library that > > the images are readable. > > > > I can then type the entries up at leisure at home - the whole process takes > > less than an hour and I tend to visit once a year. > > > > Paul Millington > > Member No. 2181 [+Z] <http://www.adshead.com/> Gordon Adshead <gordon@adshead.com> [+Z] Beaumont House, 2 Goodrington Road, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3AT, UK [+Z] Tel:+44-1625-549770 Mob:+44-7776-145602