Sorry, I meant to say, what ancestry and FreeBMD have already done! If FMP's transcriptions of the handwritten pages is better than FreeBMD's then it will be because they have refilmed / photographed the pages, or enhanced the old films. FreeBMD had one last desperate go at capturing images of some of the pages that they had really bad scans of, before the Family Records Centre closed. And also ancestry have let FreeBMD use some of their better-quality images for transcriptions that have been done recently. But when I think of the hours I've spent as a FreeBMD transcriber trying to figure out the district, volume and page number, never mind some of the names, I'll be surprised if the FMP transcriptions are better than FreeBMD's.
(though since the GRO apparently aren't botherered about volume and page numbers now, maybe it doesn't matter?)
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