1939 National Register??

[StevieSteve]

It strikes me as inefficient and not cost effective for them to have digitised  100 %  of the records.  Some or many of them may never be requested.

Issuing them on demand cost punters £42 a pop

[groom]

It strikes me as inefficient and not cost effective for them to have digitised  100 %  of the records.  Some or many of them may never be requested.

So what's the alternative, just scan them on request? That would probably have cost far more.

Sorry StevieSteve, we crossed posts. That proves my point though!

[dawnsh]

It strikes me as inefficient and not cost effective for them to have digitised  100 %  of the records.  Some or many of them may never be requested.

The same could be said for every digitised and transcribed parish register (regardless of provider) and page from the censuses

[weste]

It must occur to anyone who is a transcriber that a portion of their records may never be used. We have to do them all just in case. Once done that's it unless corrections needed. It would be more inefficient to have to keep going back to them. They probably would get more damaged if having to keep going into them. Also how long would you have to wait for the record? If you think a transcriber decided to put what records they thought necessary and one you needed was left out. How would you feel? I know it's slightly different to scanning pages on demand but things would take forever to go on line if keep going back to the original.

[dawnsh]

I'm locking the topic now as it has got to 35 pages and I'm sure there will be more discussion tomorrow as this new dataset goes live.

Please start a new topic to continue the chat.

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New topic started here: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=734302.0