From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 20:18:47, Charles Ellson   
    wrote (my responses usually FOLLOW):   
   >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).   
      
   Probably a good source where there's a bit of the original record   
   missing or damaged, is the Bishop's Transcripts; although copies,   
   they're ones made usually within a year or the originals, and while they   
   can include errors in the copying, they _can_ include corrections.   
      
   It's not always obvious whether a scan _is_ of the original or the   
   Bishop's Transcript; a rough indication is, where they're using the   
   printed forms, the entry numbers on the original lines tend to be   
   preprinted on the original but handwritten on the BTs, and where they   
   aren't, tend to be neater (as they're copied up by the same person all   
   at once, whereas the originals are added by differing scribes and/or   
   with varying inks/pens).   
      
   (The Durham Diocese ones held by the LDS are I think all BTs.)   
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