Marged & Danny, and anyone else interested in Free Bmd You would be better joining the Webscan syndicate. You are given an allocation of about 5 pages which you upload (in my case 1 by 1) from the scan source site. They will provide you with the link. This way, the file downloads onto your system as a tif file and you can view it in your imaging programme. You can fiddle about with the magnification, until it suits you. I don't know how others do it, but I print the page (set to fit to page). I then hand write my entries, and then go to the image file and double check them. Then I enter them into the Speed Bmd programme, which is a great programme that completes most of the info for you. (By the way you subconsciously learn all the registration districts as you go along, as well as learning the fashion in names and frequency of Surnames in certain areas) I then upload them. I find the Webscan far easier to read than the other syndicate I belong to where they mail me the same pages double sided as Danny received. They are murder to read, and I have to use a magnifying glass. The only consolation with this syndicate is that I send them to the co-ordinator first to check (as he has the original fiche or film) before uploading them to Free Bmd. they are looking for 2000 more volunteers, so I suggest if anyone really wants to help and has a problem with eyesight, to try the webscan. At the start you will only be given one page as a try out. The co-ordinator will ask you how much you think you can do. If you can only do 5 pages a month or less just tell them, there is never any problems. Best wishes Angela Cyprus

You've just talked me out of it Ange! Think I'll go and think it out again!! Nice to see you back on line. I came back to 407 e-mails after New Year, so SOMEBODY must have been chatting! Marged | You would be better joining the Webscan syndicate. | You are given an allocation of about 5 pages which you upload (in my | case 1 by 1) from the scan source site. | They will provide you with the link. | This way, the file downloads onto your system as a tif file and you can | view it in your imaging programme. You can fiddle about with the | magnification, until it suits you. | I don't know how others do it, but I print the page (set to fit to | page). | I then hand write my entries, and then go to the image file and double | check them. | Then I enter them into the Speed Bmd programme, which is a great | programme that completes most of the info for you. (By the way you | subconsciously learn all the registration districts as you go along, as | well as learning the fashion in names and frequency of Surnames in | certain areas) I then upload them. | I find the Webscan far easier to read than the other syndicate I belong | to where they mail me the same pages double sided as Danny received. | They are murder to read, and I have to use a magnifying glass. | The only consolation with this syndicate is that I send them to the | co-ordinator first to check (as he has the original fiche or film) | before uploading them to Free Bmd. | | they are looking for 2000 more volunteers, so I suggest if anyone really | wants to help and has a problem with eyesight, to try the webscan. | At the start you will only be given one page as a try out. | The co-ordinator will ask you how much you think you can do. | If you can only do 5 pages a month or less just tell them, there is | never any problems. | | Best wishes | Angela | Cyprus | | | ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== | The aims of this list are to create a comradeship of Northerners and those descendent from Northerners which can be beneficial to tracing the family history of the region. | | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.225 / Virus Database: 107 - Release Date: 22/12/00