Criticism is welcomed providing it is not sarcastic and derogative to what we do and that the criticism is based on facts and not comparisons to other transcriptions which contain mistakes as well. As I have said before you don't buy a product in Tesco and take it to Asda to complain about it. All we ask is that if there is a problem the person has the decency to point out any errors to us first before posting bad press elsewhere.
We at Wiltshire OPC try to add a variety of information and not just the BMDs and Census for both Family and local historians.
Some OPC projects are lucky in that they accept donations to purchase records to transcribe - most schemes don't do this and its the volunteers that purchase microfiche, hire microfilm, take out subscriptions to pay per view sites (not to copy but for cross referencing).
I agree that the information can vary from OPC to OPC but as volunteers we all have other lives to lead too and not all can transcribe as much as we would like.
If OPC projects had more volunteers come forward we could make it a much better resource nationwide. I am sure other schemes would agree that if their users were to volunteer to transcribe just one item each then the information would build up to a great asset. Wiltshire Project alone has 2500 returning users yet we have about 60 OPCs and about 10 transcribers.
You say you have posted a criticism about Family Search have you also addressed the problem with that organisation because if you haven't how will they improve their service too.
