From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:38:11 -0000 (UTC), "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?   
   >   
   Parish records can be scanned by (or on behalf of) various   
   organisations. Using just Cheshire RO holdings as an example, these   
   include Dioceses, universities, the LDS and others. Some records can   
   be re-scanned by the same organisation or another one; this can   
   involve different lighting methods (e.g. colour instead of the black   
   and white on older filmings) with the illumination tweaked to cope   
   with different original materials and inks. Pages (and loose pieces   
   tucked into them) can occasionally be missed in one filming but not in   
   others as can the indexing of individual records. Re the LDS alone,   
   some material has been filmed more than once and later also indexed   
   more completely (e.g. birth dates added where they were originally   
   ignored).   
      
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