Janet wrote: >> This is what I mean; you have confirmed it in what you say. We hear >> more about the errors in Ancestry than any elsewhere. >> I think it has to be because people pay for it and expect more as >> well as being more supportive of volunteers. There ARE more errors, simply because its not done by volunteers. However it is the only way we are all going to see the MASSIVE volume of records online. They are using broad stroke digital means, with foreign contracts for the data, which inherently creates huge numbers of errors. BUT there are now millions of us able to access records that most of us could never have accessed in our lives, and there are millions more archives with the opportunity of getting their contents online, because Ancestry makes money. Many users do not consider who is doing what, sadly, but if getting all the archives we want only is left to volunteers, we would all be very very old before it happened. What is wonderful is that there are lots of volunteers working on the even more obscure papers and records, so filling in more gaps for us all. regards Jill Bowis Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery Seasonal Farm Food http://www.kintaline.co.uk