I agree the handwriting is very bad sometimes, and MUESBECK is misspelled quite a lot. I'd love to transcribe but my hands have neuropathy and my typing is horrendous now. Marge in MI On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another thing to remember is that even though these records on the > Familysearch website are viewed by 3 different people before they go online, > the handwriting is not always that clear on the original document and could > easily be misread. Try to think of possible transcription errors to look > for the item you are searching for. > > It would be great if a more people would take just a few minutes to help > transcribe these records. It really is very simple to do. > > > From: Mary Snow <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] Missing Birth Record > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hundreds of volunteers are indexing and verifying information. Everyone > is free to volunteer. > Information about volunteering to help with the project is available at > the pilot site. > http://indexing.familysearch.org/newuser/nuhome.jsf?3.6.2 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >