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|    Geoff to Graeme Wall    |
|    Re: Scanned parish records    |
|    26 Apr 22 12:57:13    |
      From: onlyme101@btinternet.com              Graeme Wall wrote:              > 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.              Many thanks.       That saved me a lot of searching. It will have to remain a missing       piece of a jigsaw!       Geoff.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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