I think Rosie has it correctly. As I recall the "transcribed by members" records of the LDS showed too many instances where, for example, a birth date was 21 years before marriage. My experience of transcribing for FreeREG recalls many instances where difficult records were discussed, often over several days, amongst a multitude of fellow transcribers. A luxury a "commercial" site likely could not afford. Do commercial sites use Optical Character Recognition ,OCR? (I think that's what OCR means) My, admittedly amateur efforts at using this, have produced mixed and often amusing results. Doubt if it works with Latin entries! It probably why on one or two instance the "k" in my Skitmore surname has appeared as an "h"! David On 1/30/2016 2:46 AM, xpn11 via wrote: > A question related to the OP- Family Search-are records collected by LDS > members and held on film before they launched their current project of > filmed and indexed records included in their indexing ? I note some > entries have no image and in one or two cases I have not been able to > track the record when browsing the images. Probably my error but I just > wondered. > If I recall correctly some of the member gathered information the old > LDS website carried was unreliable. > I find the value of the LDS site is in the filmed images.The FreeReg is > very helpful and I think records are very carefully transcribed, it is > an admirable project and I thank all those who contribute. Used together > they have changed the game. > Using the Family Search index to search Norfolk PRs shows up some weak > transcribing. Not as bad as Ancestry though. > Rosie > > > O