Hi Lesley, would love to help, just let me know what to do and when. Cheers Sandra Harper On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:00 AM, <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Volunteer Transcribers needed for Staffordshire county, > FreeReg please! (lesley hampton) > 2. Fw: re Volunteers to transcribe Staffordshire Parish Records > (lesley hampton) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:52:04 +0000 (GMT) > From: lesley hampton <[email protected]> > Subject: [Black Country] Volunteer Transcribers needed for > Staffordshire county, FreeReg please! > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hello Listers > > I've just become the CoOrdinator for the county of > Staffordshire on FreeReg and am writing to ask whether any of you would > like to consider becoming part of the team, helping to > transcribeStaffordshire parish records > > I've only just started > this voluntary post but want to get together a list of people > interested so that when everything makes sense to me Staffs will be off > and running! I can then get together the training over the internet for > you. > > As you all know, in order to find out information about our > families we need records to have been transcribed by someone in the > first place, so we are looking for volunteer transcribers to undertake > transcriptions of registers. The only requirement is a good eye for > reading handwriting (but many of the records are already in printed > books), patience and some very basic skills with a computer. It is a > function that can be performed anywhere in the world, and you spend > asmuch or as little time as you want on it - an hour a month, a week or > more, > totally up to you. You won't be left on your own, but will have my help > and support always. Full training will be given and you'll do 'practice > runs' until you - and I - feel that you are fullycompetent. > > If > you're interested - and I'd love you to join! have a look at the home > page of FreeReg which gives great information on how it was formed, > its aims, etc. I love transcribing for FreeReg and am fully committed > to their objective to provide free Internet searches of baptism, > marriage, and burial records, which have been extracted from parish > registers and non-conformist church records in the UK. Itsan incredibly > important project. > > http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > (You'll > see a section saying 'how to volunteer'. Please ignore the advice on > this as its currently in the process of being updated, ie my name > hasntbeen added yet, so please reply to me at this email address. > Thanks) > > Any questions please dont hesitate to reply to this off list > > And > if anyone out there has free access to any parish records for the > county PLEASE let me know! I'm in the process of gathering records > andall would be received with many, many thanks! > > I've put this email in a couple of other lists also, so sorry if you come > across it again > > Lesley (Hampton). Coordinator Staffordshire, FreeReg > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:01:45 +0000 (GMT) > From: lesley hampton <[email protected]> > Subject: [Black Country] Fw: re Volunteers to transcribe Staffordshire > Parish Records > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > Subject: re Volunteers to transcribe Staffordshire Parish Records > > Many, many thanks to everyone who replied to my email. I've replied to them > all off list via email and think that, for the time being I now have enough > volunteers to help with transcribing. I'm really excited about the response > and am looking forward to us all getting more records online for you all to > search. > > If anyone would like me to keep their name and email address for when more > help is needed, then please do get in touch, I'd love to hear from you, as > I'm sure that more help will be needed as I obtain more records in the near > future. > > And I will always be on the lookout for Parish Records to transcribe! > > Thank you all so much - you're all great people on these lists! > > Lesley > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY list administrator, send an email to > EN[email protected] > > To post a message to the ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY Digest, Vol 5, Issue 12 > ************************************************ >