Brian, I wonder how many people read Facebook's pages and pages of terms and conditions before signing up? They're quite scary.  I have been a member of DFHS for many years, and will stick to more old fashioned access to it's information!  Regrettably I can no longer visit Exeter but the web-site is a great help now I have changed hemispheres.  Linking discussions I am very grateful to all who transcribe records.  It's not straightforward, as I know having transcribed for Freereg. John On 31/10/2019 6:57 pm, Brian Randell wrote: > Hi John: > > I too have considerable reservations about Facebook, especially for general “social” interactions, as opposed to its very sensible use by organisations such as DFHS (in contrast to Cambridge Analytica :-). > My concerns about it were very brilliantly illustrated some years ago by The Onion - see their glorious spoof documentary about Facebook and the CIA at: > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0 > > Cheers > > Brian > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 31 Oct 2019, at 04:56, Our Mail <ourmail@chez-williams.com<mailto:ourmail@chez-williams.com>> wrote: > > Nancy, some of us have no faith in Facebook! > > John > > On 31/10/2019 1:59 pm, Nancy Frey wrote: > Right On! Paul. > > Of course FMP is also part of the Ancestry group of companies, so you > are just paying an extra fee for what you used to get with your > Ancestry subscription. > > The demise of the traffic on the Rootsweb Lists came about when they > went absent for some time. Devon is one of the few that has any > activity these days. The Rootsweb Lists including this one are still > owned and operated by Ancestry and it mystifies me as to why the > members are still posting here rather than joining me and the members > of the DFHS on their Facebook page. > > Cheers, > > > Nancy Frey, > Windsor, ON, Canada > OPC for Ansford & Castle Cary, Somerset > ncanuck@gmail.com<mailto:ncanuck@gmail.com> > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 8:20 PM Paul Hockie via DEVON > <devon@rootsweb.com<mailto:devon@rootsweb.com>> wrote: > Terry, > one is > I first transcribed for a society in the early nineties and have taken part in a number of projects since, including the NBI and the National Archives (who issue a list of conventions to be used for names, places and legibility that make searching easier). Each of these was carefully managed and controlled. Yes there were mistakes but every effort was made to ensure high quality. Nobody is criticising the work of FHS volunteers. The works of Fursden, Philimore and others are also worthy of praise. The issue is that much indexing over the last few years has been outsourced to prisons, overseas call centres and the like. The problem is exacerbated by FMP et al. There are entries on FMP that have no information including no names and the image is a blank page or the film header. Events that are in the index 6 or more times. The search engines are designed on the google principle of quantity over quality. There are entries that just give a name with no indication where it ca > me from. > FamilySearch announced that they were going to index thousands of films over a few years and FMP announced they would release 1m entries every week. Quality went out of the window. > Volunteers good - FMP etc. bad. > > Cheers > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com<http://Ancestry.com> and our loyal RootsWeb community > > > _______________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com<http://Ancestry.com> and our loyal RootsWeb community > > _______________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community