A friend is keen to begin transcribing the parish registers for one of the oldest churches in NZ. I have offered to help with this.
The trouble is that neither of us live anywhere near the church in question. We were wondering how the people who transcribe for freebmd or freereg receive the data. I imagine that for freebmd they use photgraphed or scanned images of the typed books, but how do they do it for freereg without compromising the extremely old parish registers?
I should add that my friend is a noted church historian and it is entirely possible that we may be allowed to actually work from the registers, but I for one, am not sure that I want that sort of responsibility, what if I knock over my coffee? :o
Or it gets lost in the post? There has to be a better way!
The trouble is that neither of us live anywhere near the church in question. We were wondering how the people who transcribe for freebmd or freereg receive the data. I imagine that for freebmd they use photgraphed or scanned images of the typed books, but how do they do it for freereg without compromising the extremely old parish registers?
I should add that my friend is a noted church historian and it is entirely possible that we may be allowed to actually work from the registers, but I for one, am not sure that I want that sort of responsibility, what if I knock over my coffee? :o
Or it gets lost in the post? There has to be a better way!
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