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Australia / Re: One Day Email HIT on NSW BMD
« on: Sunday 07 September 14 02:27 BST (UK) »
>Quote from message of 5 September:
>I received an email from one of the accredited transcription agents
>who commented on the NSW BDM website ....
>
>There are several problems which the Registry currently have under review.
>These include (but are not limited to) *The index does not show the
> Volume number for pre 1856 Early Church Records.
> We are working with the Registry to identify the issues and suggest
> what needs to be done to make the index easier for researchers to use
<snip>
The abolition of early church volume numbers is very obviously directed at
increasing BDM Registry revenue by forcing researchers to obtain certificates
instead of being able to personally look up a record in the microfilms. As such
their abolition is in the interest of the transcription agents who will experience
a big jump in applications and hence revenue. The abolition retains all the errors
present in the church numbers that prior to the abolition could be ascertained
from the microfilms that the Registry "upgrade" has sought to make redundant.
>I received an email from one of the accredited transcription agents
>who commented on the NSW BDM website ....
>
>There are several problems which the Registry currently have under review.
>These include (but are not limited to) *The index does not show the
> Volume number for pre 1856 Early Church Records.
> We are working with the Registry to identify the issues and suggest
> what needs to be done to make the index easier for researchers to use
<snip>
The abolition of early church volume numbers is very obviously directed at
increasing BDM Registry revenue by forcing researchers to obtain certificates
instead of being able to personally look up a record in the microfilms. As such
their abolition is in the interest of the transcription agents who will experience
a big jump in applications and hence revenue. The abolition retains all the errors
present in the church numbers that prior to the abolition could be ascertained
from the microfilms that the Registry "upgrade" has sought to make redundant.