Hi! Surely http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vol_faq.html#6g covers this? Even if it IS on the next page? Open to being corrected fo course! -- Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Coleman" <jeff.coleman@ntlworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 2:01 PM Subject: Insertion of entry into previous page. > One of my transcribers has written as follows: > > I have an instance (1844B3-P-0765) where about halfway down the page > there's a line interspersed with X's indicating where an insertion is to > be. However the name to be inserted actually appears at the top of the > following page. > > Do I just insert the name where indicated then leave it off of the next > page? > > Any suggestions, or authoritative instructions? > > Jeff > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.14/79 - Release Date: 22/08/2005

Thanks to everyone that replied - your help is most appreciated Off to learn Hooroo Teri

Hi Has anything further happened about a program for Linux users to use instead of WinBMD at all please? If it's up and running, could someone direct me to where I can download it please Cheers Teri Western Oz Synd

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

One of my transcribers has written as follows: I have an instance (1844B3-P-0765) where about halfway down the page there's a line interspersed with X's indicating where an insertion is to be. However the name to be inserted actually appears at the top of the following page. Do I just insert the name where indicated then leave it off of the next page? Any suggestions, or authoritative instructions? Jeff

I was transcribing 1862 June marriages page 0524 letter R, and came accross a district that was blank, and only had the number 8 in the volume number. I could not find the exact information on how to add it, so I tried putting in a question mark and underneath a comment that it only contained no. 8. However winbmd would not let me send it like this, so I eventually put -[80] and left the comment below as well. This seemed to be the only way I could submit it. Is this sufficient, or is there something else I could have put and can edit it as? from TC.

Hi, LinBMD was written by Andrew Higgs, a member of my sy dicate. It can be downloaded from http://higgs.co.za/linbmd.html HTH Kevin Howell FreeBMD Corrections coordinator KSHDouble syndicate coordinator > -----Original Message----- > From: gypsy [mailto:gypsy@omninet.net.au] > Sent: 22 August 2005 12:20 > To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: LinBMD > > > Hi > > > > Has anything further happened about a program for Linux users to > use instead > of WinBMD at all please? > > > > If it's up and running, could someone direct me to where I can download it > please > > > > Cheers > > Teri > > Western Oz Synd > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD Transcribers homepage > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your > ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and > friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourcei d=14599&targetid=5429

Hi everybody, I have a transcriber with an uploading problem for page 282 of Deaths, June Quarter 1878. There is an entry for "J. SMITH, Adult ... ", but the file would not upload if "adult" was entered as per TWYS. I checked out the Knowledge Base and the Hints And Tips For Beginners pages without finding anything helpful. The transcriber eventually uploaded the file by entering "*" instead of "Adult", but does anyone have a better idea which enables TWYS? Regards, Roger.

Hello Keith, I have a copy of the WinBMD_install.exe program (506KB) which I could forward to your subscriber if you can let me have his e-mail address. I could also send suitable instructions as to it's operation as I also use the new WinBMD program. Regards, Alan. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0533-5, 20/08/2005 Tested on: 21/08/05 15:03:18 avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

I have a transcriber who has tried to get WinBMD to run via downloading from the website and from another syndicates web site. On both occasions the program aborts, they have even tried to run the program under safe mode conditions but to no avail. Any suggestions as the transcriber is keen to get started. They are running Windows XP. Thanks Keith

We have just recovered from this problem for the first time. Getting no response from sending the Winbmd.ini file to Ian -he is probably on holiday - I used the sledge-hammer approach and asked my transcriber to download the zipped version of Winbmd from our syndicate website http://www.pingramsyndicate.org/ and I provided him with a small file that would open in the program. He is now up and running. I guess all that we have done is to correct some installation error. Jeff may well be right, on another reply, that the Internet connection may have been broken during installation. The zipped file would not need the connection to be maintained. Cheers, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Lowe" <derek_lowe@btinternet.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:25 AM Subject: Run Time Error 5 > I've seen the answer to this somewhere but I cannot find it. The problem > is that after completion of the header form in WinBMD the transcriber is > unable to enter data and is presented with the Error Message : > > 'run time error '5'. Invalid procedure call or argument.' > > Does anyone have the solution to the problem? > > TIA > > Derek > > ______________________________ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/77 - Release Date: 18/08/2005

This has now been corrected. It is better to send such reports to register@freebmd.org.uk as indicated in the message. Barrie > -----Original Message----- > From: John Slann [mailto:john.slann@btinternet.com] > Sent: 17 August 2005 13:23 > To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Page Range information > > It is impossible to access page range information as of 13:20 > 17 August - the error message says: > > Software error: > > Cannot open ../html/range/16/1847B1.csv: No such file or > directory at > /home/apache/hosts/freebmd/cgi/district-page-map.pl line 67 > > For help, please send mail to the webmaster > (register@freebmd.org.uk), giving this error message and the > time and date of the error. > > John > > ______________________________ >

In order to install WinBMD the computer must be able to access the internet to collect any files that it needs which it discovers have not already been installed in connection with other packages on the computer. If the installation is tried after disconnecting from the internet it may fail. This may be the case here. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith" <Keylotus@ukonline.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:25 PM Subject: Technical help needed >I have a transcriber who is trying to set up WinBMD. They can download the > file but when the run the program it searches for > previously installed files (of which there are none) . All virus > protection > is turned off also.. > Suggestions welcome please > Keith > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > 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 have a transcriber who is trying to set up WinBMD. They can download the file but when the run the program it searches for previously installed files (of which there are none) . All virus protection is turned off also.. Suggestions welcome please Keith

I've seen the answer to this somewhere but I cannot find it. The problem is that after completion of the header form in WinBMD the transcriber is unable to enter data and is presented with the Error Message : 'run time error '5'. Invalid procedure call or argument.' Does anyone have the solution to the problem? TIA Derek

When looking at http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Format.shtml you should be aware that such data is normally submitted as a RANDOM file in the Flat File format described in http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Flat.html because this format allows you to mix quarters in one file. You can use ONENAME if you have batches of sequential names from the indexes but remember to put a +BREAK between batches. Barrie P.S. apologies for my previous posting which should have been to a different list > -----Original Message----- > From: Malisemcg@aol.com [mailto:Malisemcg@aol.com] > Sent: 16 August 2005 15:50 > To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Own research > > Hi > > I have asked my syndicate organiser this and he said to try > you, so here > goes. > > I have quite a few names and numbers from the Indexes, > researched from > microfiche at both my Local Studies here in Derby, and from > the Indexes at the FRO > on Myddelton St in London. They are quite recent, eg., 1920 - 1993. > > It seems a shame to waste them - we all have lots that we > have written down > in our researches and they've not been the right ones. > > Can we transcribe them and send them along to FreeBMD? What > sort of Batch > Header would we give them? Or do we just 'bin them'! > > None of them, I hasten to add, are from 1837Online. > > Thanks very much > > Malise McGuire > Yorkscan > > > > > > ______________________________ >

Hi Just want to say 'thanks' to everybody who emailed me on the above..... Lots of useful info to digest..... :) Thanks again Malise

In message <49AF248C-0ED1-11DA-A68C-000393B1DF0A@earthlink.net>, Kathleen Davis <kfd50@earthlink.net> writes >I've attempted to read the scan for marriages, Sept Quarter 1837, page >026.....impossible. If the original is as bad as the scan I've >downloaded (3 different ways), could someone take a look at an/the >original and at least tell me what the first and last names on the page >are? At least I can eliminate it, and narrow the odds of finding an >elusive ancestor (Mary Ann Bennett). Thanks. Looking at the scan itself: William BERRY James BIGNELL There is a Mary Ann BENNETT on B-0024 -- Philip Powell Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland to The Cheviot

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/scan-source2.shtml says you should email the Syndicate Coordinator (synd-coord@freebmd.rootsweb.com) with a subject field of "FreeBMD rescan" to ask for the page to be re-scanned" Barrie > -----Original Message----- > From: Malisemcg@aol.com [mailto:Malisemcg@aol.com] > Sent: 16 August 2005 15:50 > To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Own research > > Hi > > I have asked my syndicate organiser this and he said to try > you, so here > goes. > > I have quite a few names and numbers from the Indexes, > researched from > microfiche at both my Local Studies here in Derby, and from > the Indexes at the FRO > on Myddelton St in London. They are quite recent, eg., 1920 - 1993. > > It seems a shame to waste them - we all have lots that we > have written down > in our researches and they've not been the right ones. > > Can we transcribe them and send them along to FreeBMD? What > sort of Batch > Header would we give them? Or do we just 'bin them'! > > None of them, I hasten to add, are from 1837Online. > > Thanks very much > > Malise McGuire > Yorkscan > > > > > > ______________________________ >

It is impossible to access page range information as of 13:20 17 August - the error message says: Software error: Cannot open ../html/range/16/1847B1.csv: No such file or directory at /home/apache/hosts/freebmd/cgi/district-page-map.pl line 67 For help, please send mail to the webmaster (register@freebmd.org.uk), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. John