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From: "Sue Richart" <>
Subject: [MAPLYMOU] NEHGS Wrong Image help requested
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:12:36 -0800


Greetings listers:

As some of you know, Sam Sturgis, one of the NEHGS webmasters, has
received an auto-frame system that digitizes microfilm. Using the FHL
microfilms, he has done quite a few of the 1910 missing death images
and we are working on 1852 missing images. Also, as I go through a
spreadsheet of a volume fixing the entries, he is digitizing the
appropriate pages from the FHL microfilm to obtain the missing
image(s). I will be announcing those pages on GenMassachusetts and
Suffolks lists and will only add another county list if there are a
lot from that county.

What I would like help with are the switched images? I know that
there are some Boston pages that show Fall River images and some
Bristol pages that show Boston images. I'm not talking about scanning
errors where your entry is listed on the wrong year (post-1902 death
images), volume, or page. If you are aware of some of switched image
and can identify the type (birth, marriage, and death), volume, and
page range that would be a great help and will speed up those getting
digitized. Before you send me some you think fit this description, I
ask that you do one thing. Please, take the time to clear your query
and look at the page ONLY by querying for volume and page to ensure
that this really is a switched image. There are literally hundreds of
thousands of the scanning errors left to fix, so please don't send me
those at this time. I've done several volumes and have figured out a
reasonably efficient method of working through them, so I will be
dealing with the scanning errors that way. Now, if it is your
grandmother or great-grandparent's birth, marriage, or death, and
there is a problem and you can't figure out how to get to the correct
entry, by all means email me or Dale Cook or post on the forum for
John Ledden to help you out. I will post the switched page
information to GenMasschusetts and the appropriate county lists, so
everyone is aware they have been found.

I'm really excited about this. Soon all, but the pages that were
missing prior to the filming by the folks from Salt Lake, will be
available on the NEHGS Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 on-line
database. I am spending more time than I should doing this, but it
feels great to be making real progress.

Sincerely,

Sue Richart
NEHGS Volunteer repairing the MVR 1841-1910 database from Northeast
Washington State

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