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    1. [MAWORCES] NEHGS Wrong Image help requested
    2. Sue Richart
    3. Greetings listers: As some of you know, Sam Sturgis, one of the NEHGS webmasters, has received an auto-frame system that digitizes microfilm. Using the FHL microfilms, he has done quite a few of the 1910 missing death images and we are working on 1852 missing images. Also, as I go through a spreadsheet of a volume fixing the entries, he is digitizing the appropriate pages from the FHL microfilm to obtain the missing image(s). I will be announcing those pages on GenMassachusetts and Suffolks lists and will only add another county list if there are a lot from that county. What I would like help with are the switched images? I know that there are some Boston pages that show Fall River images and some Bristol pages that show Boston images. I'm not talking about scanning errors where your entry is listed on the wrong year (post-1902 death images), volume, or page. If you are aware of some of switched image and can identify the type (birth, marriage, and death), volume, and page range that would be a great help and will speed up those getting digitized. Before you send me some you think fit this description, I ask that you do one thing. Please, take the time to clear your query and look at the page ONLY by querying for volume and page to ensure that this really is a switched image. There are literally hundreds of thousands of the scanning errors left to fix, so please don't send me those at this time. I've done several volumes and have figured out a reasonably efficient method of working through them, so I will be dealing with the scanning errors that way. Now, if it is your grandmother or great-grandparent's birth, marriage, or death, and there is a problem and you can't figure out how to get to the correct entry, by all means email me or Dale Cook or post on the forum for John Ledden to help you out. I will post the switched page information to GenMasschusetts and the appropriate county lists, so everyone is aware they have been found. I'm really excited about this. Soon all, but the pages that were missing prior to the filming by the folks from Salt Lake, will be available on the NEHGS Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 on-line database. I am spending more time than I should doing this, but it feels great to be making real progress. Sincerely, Sue Richart NEHGS Volunteer repairing the MVR 1841-1910 database from Northeast Washington State

    12/02/2008 08:12:36