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    1. Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] UNREADABLE WILL New website for the National Archives of Ireland
    2. Nivard Ovington
    3. Hi PJ Would you send me a sample page or will so I can see what the problem might be Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 09/11/2012 12:46, pjsalis@hal-pc.org wrote: > Nivard, > > I went to this site to search the soldiers' wills database. I downloaded > five wills and on all images a more or less dense blue film covered the > will. In two cases the film made the will unreadable. The film also > appeared in the pdf print image. I found no mention of this blue film in > the long description of the database and of the conservation procedures > used prior to digitization. > > Has anyone else seen the blue film? What explains it? Why reduce the > usefulness of the database by deliberately making some images unreadable? > > PJ

    11/09/2012 05:50:41