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From: "Rick Parsons" <>
Subject: RE: [CON-GEN] damaged records and extracting data
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 21:06:36 +0100
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As you are likely to be looking at microfilms of records then just getting
another copy of the film or from a different source can make all the
difference. e.g. on the FreeCEN project, the films we obtained from the LDS
were very poor in places whereas the ones available in Truro were pretty
good. At a price it is possible to buy first generation microfilms (from the
original negatives),

If the original is bad then filming will not make it any better. In severe
circumstances, record offices will get out the original document (the CRO
have assisted the CFHS in this way for their marriage and burial indexes)
and it may be possible to see what is written by stains and oblique light.
Rod Neep of Archive CD Books has done a lot of research and has found that
various techniques include UV and coloured light can improve digital scans.
He has had some success with 1841 census returns that look like brown
wrapping paper.

Cheers,
Rick Parsons

OPC: St. Ives & Towednack
R.E.N.O.W.D.E.N One Name Study
West Penwith Resources http://west-penwith.org.uk/
EMail: rick1 [>at<] west-penwith.org.uk
Mail: 18, Brighton Road, Redland, Bristol BS6 6NT, England.
Tel: +(44) 117 974 1288


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