Request a "rescan"?
Hello all!
I've been trying to figure out how to request a rescan or something of the sort for a collection I found during my research. The specific image I would love to have is here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P3G-Z7V
But the whole collection is very blurry. It's like whoever was taking the images was in a hurry to get somewhere. Is there a way to get this collection re-scanned? As you will see, it's a collection of Wills that I'm sure are important to other researchers as well.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
-Tiffany
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It says it was filmed by the Kentucky Historical Society in 1965 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P3G-Z5G?i=5&cc=1875188). Surely other people have noticed the blurriness in the elapsed 58 years? This is way outside my area of experience, but if the historical society still exists in some form, perhaps they could tell you whether a more-readable version of this record set exists somewhere.
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The Kenton, Kentucky Will Books are also on Ancestry, and the image quality there is better although still not great.
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9066/images/004819644_00188
Ancestry uses the images from the filming done by FS, but they may have had the opportunity to enhance the images before loading them onto their system. I've seen a similar difference among Ancestry, Find My Past, and the NLI where the image is great on one and unreadable on the other platform.
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