First of all my apologies to the people here who have been very generous in their thanks for my help tracing their ancestors

I have visited The Mitchell Library many times, at my own expense and at weekends and holidays when I am not at work, to help lots of you find out more about your

Last week I met a lovely lady who does the same thing from another message board.
We discovered we had been asked to transcribe the same thing on more than one occasion.

If you have ever used your old, tired eyes to view and transcribe some of these records you will understand my indignation.

I can understand submitting a request to more than one source and I will of course continue to help anybody I can but please can I ask that if you have posted a request on multiple message boards you say so then at least I can ask the archivist if that particular application has been recently viewed.
Right ah'm aff ma boax noo.

Kind regards,
Annette M
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