Dear WYJS, In common with other genealogy researchers, I have been using the recent releases of the above records on Ancestry. In many cases, I have been rewarded with information I did not previously have and which would have taken inordinate effort to acquire - so the release is very welcome, and the images remarkably clear to read. Well done! However, there are also many errors of indexing coming to light. I am copying the rootsweb mailing list as you can see above as complaints have been aired widely across the world over the last week or so. I wonder what supervision you have had over the indexing process? We have found: - an individual's record being attributed to more than one parish church - an individual's record being attributed to the wrong church - more than one church's records within what is meant to be a single batch - that your own labelling at the foot of an image has been cut off on the display, so we cannot cross-check from your paper documents and generally widespread confusion. Do you have any comments on this, please? We would be more than willing to provide examples of these and probably other issues, if you are not already aware of them. (I have not been appointed spokesman for the group, but have taken it upon myself to ask you what is going on, and what can be done to put matters right - someone has to. If this offends any member of the group, I apologise.) I/we look forward to your response. best wishes Maggie Berry, in Surrey

Well done Maggie, if you need any examples we have come across plenty for our particular area Sharon Buchanan vicechair@pontefractfhs.org.uk www.pontefractfhs.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: maggiemole@aol.com Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:54 AM To: archives@wyjs.org.uk Cc: WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com Subject: [WRY] West Yorkshire Parish Records on Ancestry Dear WYJS, In common with other genealogy researchers, I have been using the recent releases of the above records on Ancestry. In many cases, I have been rewarded with information I did not previously have and which would have taken inordinate effort to acquire - so the release is very welcome, and the images remarkably clear to read. Well done! However, there are also many errors of indexing coming to light. I am copying the rootsweb mailing list as you can see above as complaints have been aired widely across the world over the last week or so. I wonder what supervision you have had over the indexing process? We have found: - an individual's record being attributed to more than one parish church - an individual's record being attributed to the wrong church - more than one church's records within what is meant to be a single batch - that your own labelling at the foot of an image has been cut off on the display, so we cannot cross-check from your paper documents and generally widespread confusion. Do you have any comments on this, please? We would be more than willing to provide examples of these and probably other issues, if you are not already aware of them. (I have not been appointed spokesman for the group, but have taken it upon myself to ask you what is going on, and what can be done to put matters right - someone has to. If this offends any member of the group, I apologise.) I/we look forward to your response. best wishes Maggie Berry, in Surrey Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message