I am currently transcribing handwritten entries from 1846. I have managed the "L that looks like an S" and similar oddities but one thing has me stumped. A few districts (e.g. Ashton, Hereford) have a single character following the district name that looks like something between an S and an &. Does anyone know what that character is? I notice that in the typed lists available from commercial vendors like Genealogy.com, this is translated as &c but that may simply be the typist's code for "I don't know what this character is." I'd really like to type what I see, but my choices seem to be either [S&] or _ . If anyone knows what the convention was back then for extending the names of some districts, and thus what I should be entering, please let me know. Kate McCain

Derek started up a list for the Scan2 team. I have forwarded your message to Derek and he should unsubscribe you. Regards Andrew List-admin for FreeBMD-Admins mailing list -> Visit http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com On 31 Aug 2005 at 13:27, Tedand Joan Warwick wrote: > Please tell whomever put me on "THE LIST" to take me off! This is not to un-subscribe to the Free BMD communications list, but a more recent "enhancement" which has resulted in me getting dozens of e-mails from all over the world, requesting help/assistance/clarification/new scans/ etc.........I am just a lonely, slowly, lowly transcriber who is considering adding ALL FreeBMD communications to the "spam" filter! > Is this problem common only to the Scan2 syndicate? > Help! > Ted Warwick > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ______________________________

I am a transcriber for scan 2 as well. In amongst the new messages you should have received one from Derek explaining how and why he has set up a new list just for his transcribers. In the message it gives details about how to unsubscribe or to change to digest mode. I followed the instructions and had no problem changing to digest mode. Using the email address you gave Derek when you joined his team this is how you unsubscribe Send the message unsubscribe to FreeBMD-Scan2-L-request@rootsweb.com You will then stop receiving messages If you want to change to digest mode you need to unsubscribe as above and then send the message subscribe to FreeBMD-Scan2-D-request@rootsweb.com I hope this clears things up. Sue

Dear all I presume this email is about me?I haven't gone anywhere and most transcribers are getting through to me although this is the first admins list communication that I have had for a while. Don't know why people cannot get through to me. If all else fails I have another address pat_e_savage@hotmail.com but do not look at it very often. i will make a point of doing so if anyone wants to contact me on it. One very lonely Pat Savage BobLuder@aol.com wrote: I heard from Pat on the 2nd August. She may have popped out for a short holiday. Don't panic yet! Hilary Luder ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== List archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx

Jeff, The gentleman is happy to be on the Admins List, he seems to be getting Co-ordinator mails meant for Derek. There haven't been dozens of mails in the last few weeks to the FreeBMD lists - I know, I am subscribed to them all. And new scan requests don't usually come to the lists. The traffic Ted is getting is not normal List mail. If he unsubscribes from the Admin list, he may well continue to get the abnormal stuff anyway, and not a chance to tell anyone about the problem! Has Derek set up a re-direction and chosen the wrong address from his address book perhaps? Or another transcriber in the syndicate? The above isn't very helpful, sorry, I just hope it isn't that Derek has made the mistake just before leaving for a month-long holiday. :-) -- Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Coleman" <jeff.coleman@ntlworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:53 PM Subject: Re: S.O.S > All you need to do is send an email to > FreeBMD-Admins-L-request@rootsweb.com > > with the subject 'unsubscribe' and the only text 'unsubscribe' > > Then you will be automatically removed from this list. > > You may have sent a message to subscribe to it without realising that you > had done so. > > Jeff > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tedand Joan Warwick" <jntwar@yahoo.com> > To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:27 PM > Subject: S.O.S > > >> Please tell whomever put me on "THE LIST" to take me off! This is not to >> un-subscribe to the Free BMD communications list, but a more recent >> "enhancement" which has resulted in me getting dozens of e-mails from all >> over the world, requesting help/assistance/clarification/new scans/ >> etc.........I am just a lonely, slowly, lowly transcriber who is >> considering adding ALL FreeBMD communications to the "spam" filter! >> Is this problem common only to the Scan2 syndicate? >> Help! >> Ted Warwick >> >> -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: 31/08/2005

All you need to do is send an email to FreeBMD-Admins-L-request@rootsweb.com with the subject 'unsubscribe' and the only text 'unsubscribe' Then you will be automatically removed from this list. You may have sent a message to subscribe to it without realising that you had done so. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tedand Joan Warwick" <jntwar@yahoo.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:27 PM Subject: S.O.S > Please tell whomever put me on "THE LIST" to take me off! This is not to > un-subscribe to the Free BMD communications list, but a more recent > "enhancement" which has resulted in me getting dozens of e-mails from all > over the world, requesting help/assistance/clarification/new scans/ > etc.........I am just a lonely, slowly, lowly transcriber who is > considering adding ALL FreeBMD communications to the "spam" filter! > Is this problem common only to the Scan2 syndicate? > Help! > Ted Warwick > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD Transcribers homepage > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

I heard from Pat on the 2nd August. She may have popped out for a short holiday. Don't panic yet! Hilary Luder

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#12 tells you how to do this for yourself. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry and Bryan" <melian@telus.net> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:31 PM Subject: RE: FreeBMD-Admins-D Digest V05 #162 > As of September 1st please change my email address from melian@telus.net > to melianpro@shaw.ca > Thank you > Sherry Miles > > -----Original Message----- > From: FreeBMD-Admins-D-request@rootsweb.com > [mailto:FreeBMD-Admins-D-request@rootsweb.com] > Sent: August 31, 2005 2:00 AM > To: FreeBMD-Admins-D@rootsweb.com > Subject: FreeBMD-Admins-D Digest V05 #162 > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD - http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/85 - Release Date: 30/08/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/85 - Release Date: 30/08/2005

Please tell whomever put me on "THE LIST" to take me off! This is not to un-subscribe to the Free BMD communications list, but a more recent "enhancement" which has resulted in me getting dozens of e-mails from all over the world, requesting help/assistance/clarification/new scans/ etc.........I am just a lonely, slowly, lowly transcriber who is considering adding ALL FreeBMD communications to the "spam" filter! Is this problem common only to the Scan2 syndicate? Help! Ted Warwick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

As of September 1st please change my email address from melian@telus.net to melianpro@shaw.ca Thank you Sherry Miles -----Original Message----- From: FreeBMD-Admins-D-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:FreeBMD-Admins-D-request@rootsweb.com] Sent: August 31, 2005 2:00 AM To: FreeBMD-Admins-D@rootsweb.com Subject: FreeBMD-Admins-D Digest V05 #162

Hi Nick, I like curious people. It makes me think about what I'm doing :) When I receive correction requests, I validate them and assuming they are valid I do one of the following 1) If the correcton is to uncertain Characters I upload the new entry myself. 2) If the transcriber is still actively working for the project and accepts correction requests, details are forwarded to the transcriber. 3) Other definate corrections are uploaded under my submitterID. So six of your corrections fell into category 2) above and the amendments were accepted by the transcriber and their file was duly updated and has been included in the database. The other four entries are either categories 1) or 3) (or were in category 2, but where the changes were not made to the transcribers file within about 3 months) and have thefore been uploaded by me. Category 3) corrections do leave "incorrect" information in the database, but the project works on the basis that a submitter "Owns" their files and as such I have no authority to change them. Later stages of the project will deal with this ambiguiaty. I take the trouble to upload entries I believe to be correct so that the database includes what I believe to be valid entries. The facility to view the scan images from which the entries were transcribed give the searcher the ability to make their own interpretation in the case of a disagreement between the various transcribers. N.B. If I have already uploaded an entry there is NO point in submitting a correction against an entry to make it identical to mine, as I would only have uploaded iut if the original entry cannot be updated. Longer term, once a period has been fully double keyed and the appropriate tools have been developed, all entries which differ will be cheked by independant groups of people (not the original transcribers) and disimilar entries will be force aligned to a valid entry. The other entries will still be available for display. The comments are added to identify the information source which has been used to when validate the correction. The reference number allows me to link this entry back to the original correction request. If correction submitters supply additional background information, then sometimes this also finds its way into the comments. This would however be the exception as I have no way of validating this additional information. Hope that helps. Kevin. FreeBMD Corrections Coordinator. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Allwork [mailto:allwork@pacificcoast.net] > Sent: 30 August 2005 01:31 > To: FreeBMD-Admins-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: Corrections Coordinator entries > > > Hello > A few months ago I submitted 10 corrections ( all in the name of > Allwork ). Of these, 4 ( 3 in Births and 1 in Marriages now > appear as duplicate entries (without the italicized location) > below the original entry (with the italicized location). > Beside the Corrections Coordinator's entry the Info box appears > with a ? [ Info ] ?. > > The 6 other corrections that were made don't show [ Info ] ?, It > appears that these corrections were fully accepted and have > become the new normal data. > > Could you please explain the use of [ Info ] ? in > circumstances that satisfy your internal data testing while > leaving in the original entry that did not pass the internal data > testing that gave rise to the italicized location name in the first place? > > You are doing a fabulous job and I hope this won't be seen as > critical. I'm curious. > > Thanks > Nick Allwork > > > >

Thanks to everyone who responded to me off list. Contact has been established with Pat. Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 27 August 2005 19:36 Subject: Re: Lost one coordinator I've been trying to make contact with Pat for quite a while and sent a follow up email to her as recent as two days ago. It's extremely unusual to have no response from her. If anyone has heard recently from Pat could they please let me know off list? Allan Raymond FreeBMD Co-ordinator of Syndicates ----- Original Message ----- From: "REGINALD BODDY" <r.boddy@btopenworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 27 August 2005 19:20 Subject: Lost one coordinator Hi Can anyone from the Pat Savage syndicate help? I seem to have lost touch with Pat. The last time I heard from her was 11 July 2005. I have not had any reply from the last three e mails that I have sent to her since. Regards Reg Boddy ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== FreeBMD Transcribers homepage http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

I've been trying to make contact with Pat for quite a while and sent a follow up email to her as recent as two days ago. It's extremely unusual to have no response from her. If anyone has heard recently from Pat could they please let me know off list? Allan Raymond FreeBMD Co-ordinator of Syndicates ----- Original Message ----- From: "REGINALD BODDY" <r.boddy@btopenworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 27 August 2005 19:20 Subject: Lost one coordinator Hi Can anyone from the Pat Savage syndicate help? I seem to have lost touch with Pat. The last time I heard from her was 11 July 2005. I have not had any reply from the last three e mails that I have sent to her since. Regards Reg Boddy

Hi Can anyone from the Pat Savage syndicate help? I seem to have lost touch with Pat. The last time I heard from her was 11 July 2005. I have not had any reply from the last three e mails that I have sent to her since. Regards Reg Boddy

I am currently transcribing June 1911 marriages and have a query regarding an entry on scan 1911M2-F-0296. The entry reads:- Farr, Richard W. Ham 4a n362 I don't know if the small 'n' before the 362 is an original typing error or if it should be there and whether I should include this in the transcription as TWYS. Any advice appreciated Regards Gordon

Hi there Richard I have just become a transcriber too, and I had the same problem with installing winbmd, but I looked in my programmes and found it was there, then just made a short cut to my desk top, where it now sits, and is called winbmd2, and I click on it from there. The original one that left itself on my desk top is still the install programme! Hope this helps Regards Lisa

Thanks to everyone answer not forwarded to parties involved. Keith

Hi Can someone have a look at 1856B3 G-O for me please and check them - I think there's a slight mistake They start off at 0001 and go up to 0180 - they then start off back to 0001 again I think some have been done G-0 (zero) and some G-O (alpha) Hope I've made myself clear Hooroo Teri

Keith Definitive answer given in the "How best to Search" page at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/search-help.shtml . Scroll down to the entry "Date Range", answer given - Remember that Births and Deaths at the end of a quarter may not have been registered until the start of the next quarter.......... Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith" <Keylotus@ukonline.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 22 August 2005 21:37 Subject: Birth Registration I have just been asked a question regarding the registration of a birth. If a person was born on the last day of December in a particular year is it possible to have that person shown in the following year's first quarter. My initial response was no but then some doubt set in. Can somebody give me a definite answer please. Thanks Keith

Teri The slight mistake appears to be due to the files being renamed and the original files left on the system after the renaming was completed. This applies to all 1856 births, our Expert in this area should be able to resolve the problem. One of us will keep you posted on progress. Regards Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "gypsy" <gypsy@omninet.net.au> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 23 August 2005 13:43 Subject: tifs out of sync Hi Can someone have a look at 1856B3 G-O for me please and check them - I think there's a slight mistake They start off at 0001 and go up to 0180 - they then start off back to 0001 again I think some have been done G-0 (zero) and some G-O (alpha) Hope I've made myself clear Hooroo Teri