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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.



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Australia / Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« on: Tuesday 22 July 14 01:31 BST (UK)  »
Today 22 July I received the following reply from the BDM
Registry to a 2 July 2014 complaint with reference to a
particular case where the June "upgrade" of the Marriage
Index made it no longer searchable without a spouse's given
or family name etc. (I was unaware of use of a wild card).

>Our technical team is currently investigating all the issues that have
arisen since the launch of our new system, no functionality  or searching
capabilities should of been lost. Issues regarding scrolling and missing
search buttons have been rectified.

Please note we have reintroduced the wild card * which can be used to
replace a person's name.  We will also be introducing soundex to our
records, therefore all records even ones that have slightly different
spellings will come up in results.

We are currently in the process of restoring the missing districts and
volume numbers on the results page. In regards to the date range we are
looking at changing the default to 'yes'. PDF's are being made available.
These are being updated regularly.

We have recently updated again so if you have our website as a  favourite
please up date your bookmark.

We could not keep the old site as it was no longer feasible to maintain.

On behalf of the Registry I apologise for the inconvenience caused,

Yours faithfully
Nicole
Client Service Officer



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Occupation Interests / Re: Watermen and lighter-men Apprenticeships Bindings Look up Please?
« on: Monday 01 October 07 10:27 BST (UK)  »
If Sue is still doing lookups in the Watermen
and Lightermen apprenticeship bindings CD
could she please lookup and advise entries
for the RAYMOND surname. Among mine known to
have been lightermen just from the late 1700s
were definitely:

John Raymond 1783-1850 - father was John?
Mead Raymond 1885-1843 - father was John?
Augustus Raymond 1821-1877 - father was Mead
Mead Terry Raymond 1817-1866 -father was Mead

A similiar request message was sent to Sue's personal mailox before this topic was discovered.

Thank you,

John Raymond
Brisabne, Australia

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