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   J. P. Gilliver (John) to All   
   Re: bapt. replaced with borne?!?   
   15 Feb 21 17:29:57   
   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 14:25:43, Jenny M Benson    
   wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):   
   >On 19/01/2021 18:10, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   >> unlike some things, there _isn't_ a "image x of y" at the bottom   
   >>where  one can manually change x. (Maybe that's only on familysearch   
   >>images, I  can't remember.) [There _is_ a ">" for "next image" button   
   >>on the right,   
      
   For familysearch, I've now found the "< x of y >" is in the top left   
   part of the screen.   
   >   
   >I've just looked back through the posts to find this as I had a vague   
   >memory of someone saying something about this problem and I had   
   >recently noticed the same when looking at Northumberland Parish   
   >Registers on FindMyPast.   
      
   I'd assumed, where it was a bishop's transcript image on FMP, it was a   
   copyright matter, and I'd been going to the familysearch Durham Diocese   
   images (which cover Northumberland, Durham, and bits of Cumberland and   
   York[shire]) to find a download button ...   
   >   
   >I discovered that if one uses the < or > to move back or forward one   
   >image, the "x of y" does then appear at the bottom of the screen, along   
   >with the option to download the image, so one can then go forward or   
      
   ... but I'll have to try that on FMP.   
      
   >back one to the original image and either download it, or type in a   
   >number to leap to a different position in the set.   
   >   
   >Thought I'd just mention this in case someone else hasn't discovered it.   
   >   
   >(And on the subject of FMP, why on earth did they do away with the   
   >handy alphabetical list of record sets, which was so much quicker to   
   >use than the current arrangement?)   
   >   
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