From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 26/04/2022 10:38, Geoff wrote:   
   > Do each of the large organizations (Ancestry, FMP,  FamilySearch etc)   
   > do their own scanning or are they all drawn from a common source?  I'm   
   > talking about the actual physical scanning, not the transcriptions.   
   > Might a piece of a record that is damaged or missing, possibly be   
   > better from another source?   
      
   AIUI the scanning process was supervised by the NRO and the copies   
   licenced to the various companies.   
      
      
   As there is only one original of each record, if it is damaged  on one,   
   it won't be any better elsewhere.   
      
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