I am searching for William Elijah Levitt, born in 1896 Hull, Yorkshire as I am trying to obtain a death cert for him and his wife Elsa Charlotte Levitt. I am told he and his wife (my grandparents) died in 1945 in September quarter but have no info on how they died? They lived in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire at the time possibly Analby Road, Hull or Argyll Street, Hull. I have tried the fee bmd records but nothing comes up for William Levitt.
I have just transcribed the same thing, Mac with a space before the remainder of the surname. There were four records for Mac Gowan and Mac Gregor I entered it exactly as it was on the scan, as per TWYS. I would expect that there may be many more which nobody has mentioned. David Longstaff (Rugeley, England) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mayall" <david.mayall@ukonline.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: Re: Spaces in Surnames. > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:36:23 -0000, you wrote: > > >Hi > > > >A question has been raised by 1 of our volunteers, as under. > > > >>There were a number of surnames on this page beginning with "Mac" which had a space >between the Mac and whatever followed. I used the TWYS principle. I have looked in the TKB >pages and can't see guidance - are searchers made aware of this foible, I can't see many of >them looking for Mac Nay? > > > >Will the search routine seek out such names without the researcher using the 'space' in the name in the search criteria? > > At present, no. > > There is no reason why it could not do so in future though. > > -- > Dave Mayall > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >
If you look at the page source for one of those list archives, you'll see that the email addresses are generated by a javascript function. They look like this: <script type="text/javascript">DisplayMail('tjt1 ... The string of numbers is the email address (it's longer that I've shown it above), and I assume that the javascript function converts it to a "mailto:" link. If you turn off javascript you don't see the addresses. It would have to be a fairly sophisticated email harvester to spot the email address. Obviously google's search engine can find it, though. Yahoo doesn't find any. So I think it's fairly safe. The spam mail came via the list, so it was nothing to do with people's mail addresses being visible. All the best, Dave (not an admin, just a lurker) On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:29:47PM +0000, Javier Ruiz wrote: > In many lists servers there is an option to mask email addresses from archives, but I am not sure you can do that with names or retrospectively. > > Javier > > -- > Javier Ruiz > javier@openrightsgroup.org > +44(0)7877 911 412 > @javierruiz > > > On Friday, 13 January 2012 at 12:24, Christine Ross wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've just put my email in Google and did not get any hits. > > regards, > > Christine > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Trevor > > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:09 AM > > To: FreeBMD-Admins@rootsweb.com (http://web.com) > > Subject: My Email Address > > > > Hi > > > > I received an spam email this morning purporting to come from a Sheila > > Waterfall. So for reasons best known to myself, I put my email address into > > Google, and got a load of hits from the RootsWeb.FreeBMD-Admins-L (http://Web.FreeBMD-Admins-L) archive, > > which listed both my email address and my real name. > > > > > > > > In these days of 'We take your privacy seriously', this does not sit at all > > comfortably, and is an open invitation to spammer's' email harvesting > > spiders. > > > > I wonder if all our members are aware of this fact, that your email address > > and actual name are freely available on the internet for all to see. I have > > no objection to other FreeBMD admins and transcribers etc. having access to > > this, but find it concerning that it's open to all. > > > > > > > > Had I known that you were going to do this, and publish everything that I > > had written on the open Internet, I would not have volunteered as a > > transcriber. > > > > I wonder how many other people realise that this is happening. > > > > > > > > Please remove all my posts from the archive. > > > > Trev > > > > > > > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com (http://web.com) with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com (http://web.com) with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
In many lists servers there is an option to mask email addresses from archives, but I am not sure you can do that with names or retrospectively. Javier -- Javier Ruiz javier@openrightsgroup.org +44(0)7877 911 412 @javierruiz On Friday, 13 January 2012 at 12:24, Christine Ross wrote: > Hi, > I've just put my email in Google and did not get any hits. > regards, > Christine > > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:09 AM > To: FreeBMD-Admins@rootsweb.com (http://web.com) > Subject: My Email Address > > Hi > > I received an spam email this morning purporting to come from a Sheila > Waterfall. So for reasons best known to myself, I put my email address into > Google, and got a load of hits from the RootsWeb.FreeBMD-Admins-L (http://Web.FreeBMD-Admins-L) archive, > which listed both my email address and my real name. > > > > In these days of 'We take your privacy seriously', this does not sit at all > comfortably, and is an open invitation to spammer's' email harvesting > spiders. > > I wonder if all our members are aware of this fact, that your email address > and actual name are freely available on the internet for all to see. I have > no objection to other FreeBMD admins and transcribers etc. having access to > this, but find it concerning that it's open to all. > > > > Had I known that you were going to do this, and publish everything that I > had written on the open Internet, I would not have volunteered as a > transcriber. > > I wonder how many other people realise that this is happening. > > > > Please remove all my posts from the archive. > > Trev > > > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com (http://web.com) with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com (http://web.com) with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >
Hi, I've just put my email in Google and did not get any hits. regards, Christine -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:09 AM To: FreeBMD-Admins@rootsweb.com Subject: My Email Address Hi I received an spam email this morning purporting to come from a Sheila Waterfall. So for reasons best known to myself, I put my email address into Google, and got a load of hits from the RootsWeb.FreeBMD-Admins-L archive, which listed both my email address and my real name. In these days of 'We take your privacy seriously', this does not sit at all comfortably, and is an open invitation to spammer's' email harvesting spiders. I wonder if all our members are aware of this fact, that your email address and actual name are freely available on the internet for all to see. I have no objection to other FreeBMD admins and transcribers etc. having access to this, but find it concerning that it's open to all. Had I known that you were going to do this, and publish everything that I had written on the open Internet, I would not have volunteered as a transcriber. I wonder how many other people realise that this is happening. Please remove all my posts from the archive. Trev FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
The FreeBMD-admins list, like virtually all Rootsweb lists, has a searchable archive of past messages, at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins This address is given at the foot of each individual email from the list. I hope that this is clear from the description on http://www.freebmd.org.uk/lists.html In normal circumstances the only person who can remove an email from the threaded archive is the person who sent it. There is a procedure for doing so, which I have explained to Trevor, off-list. Jeff list admin, FreeBMD-admins mailing list freebmd-admins-admin@rootsweb.com <freebmd-admins-admin@rootsweb.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor" <trev@tjt1.fsnet.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-Admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:09 AM Subject: My Email Address > Hi > > I received an spam email this morning purporting to come from a Sheila > Waterfall. So for reasons best known to myself, I put my email address > into > Google, and got a load of hits from the RootsWeb.FreeBMD-Admins-L archive, > which listed both my email address and my real name. > > > > In these days of 'We take your privacy seriously', this does not sit at > all > comfortably, and is an open invitation to spammer's' email harvesting > spiders. > > I wonder if all our members are aware of this fact, that your email > address > and actual name are freely available on the internet for all to see. I > have > no objection to other FreeBMD admins and transcribers etc. having access > to > this, but find it concerning that it's open to all. > > > > Had I known that you were going to do this, and publish everything that I > had written on the open Internet, I would not have volunteered as a > transcriber. > > I wonder how many other people realise that this is happening. > > > > Please remove all my posts from the archive. > > Trev >
Please delete the message with title 'Re: real work at home positions u' without opening it and do not click on the link it contains. It appears that this list member's computer has become corrupted. Any future posts from this list member will be moderated. Jeff list admin
Hi I received an spam email this morning purporting to come from a Sheila Waterfall. So for reasons best known to myself, I put my email address into Google, and got a load of hits from the RootsWeb.FreeBMD-Admins-L archive, which listed both my email address and my real name. In these days of 'We take your privacy seriously', this does not sit at all comfortably, and is an open invitation to spammer's' email harvesting spiders. I wonder if all our members are aware of this fact, that your email address and actual name are freely available on the internet for all to see. I have no objection to other FreeBMD admins and transcribers etc. having access to this, but find it concerning that it's open to all. Had I known that you were going to do this, and publish everything that I had written on the open Internet, I would not have volunteered as a transcriber. I wonder how many other people realise that this is happening. Please remove all my posts from the archive. Trev
Sorry for sending to group, but am away with no address book. Sue, please don't take me off the vols list, will be back end of January, and ready to go again. Thanks Jo Morris Happy New Year to all
My post arrived on this list because I clicked the button for submitting suggestions on the Transcribers' Page. I had thought it was going directly to Ian Brooke, not being posted to a public list. Sorry to have rocked the boat! Patty
Hi all, have come across a "different" addendum on the above scan for the 3rd insertion at the bottom of the second column. I have entered it as follows: Rayns Josephine M.E. Brown Derby,3a 392 ____ #COMMENT(2): Previous and next partial entry are handwritten at bottom of column with this insertion point indicated Rayns Josephine M.E. Brown Derby,3a 4234/S Not sure if this covers the situation - any suggestions welcome! Cheers from "downunder" Mark Searle
Transcribers' Knowledge Base ( TKB) 6(am) seems to apply, together with TKB 6(q) I suggest as follows. Insert two entries after the entry for Rayns,Joseph, RAYNS,JOSEPHINE M.E.,BROWN,DERBY,3A,392 S'49 #THEORY,REF see S/49 #COMMENT(2) entry shows 392 S'49 and 4234/S bracketed together RAYNS,JOSEPHINE M.E.,BROWN,DERBY,3A,4234/S Remember that the purpose of a #COMMENT line is to direct the attention of a database user to additional information about and entry. The use of the 'Spectacles' icon alongside the search result will enable a database user to see the original scanned page. It is unusual to find an entry S'49 in a September 1949 page. Usually this sort of entry points to a different year or quarter. Your syndicate co-ordinator may advise you further. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <mark@searle-ons.com> To: <freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com>; "Susan Hawkins" <thehawkins@optusnet.com.au> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:56 AM Subject: Scan 1949B3R0081 > Hi all, > > have come across a "different" addendum on the above scan for the 3rd > insertion at the bottom of the second column. > > I have entered it as follows: > > Rayns Josephine M.E. Brown Derby,3a 392 ____ > #COMMENT(2): Previous and next partial entry are handwritten at bottom of > column with this insertion point indicated > Rayns Josephine M.E. Brown Derby,3a 4234/S > > Not sure if this covers the situation - any suggestions welcome! > > Cheers from "downunder" > > Mark Searle
The usual Windows shortcuts CTRL-C for copy, CTRL-X for cut and CTRL-V for paste all work in WinBMD. Suggestions for changes or enhancements to WinBMD are normally directed to the FreeBMD-Discuss list. The type of #COMMENT that is required varies a good deal for different types and dates of scan. A good deal of advice is to be found at Transcribers' Knowledge Base (TKB) at http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html particularly in section 6 PRINCIPLES OF TRANSCRIBING DATA Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patty Keffer" <pattyk49@bellsouth.net> To: <FreeBMD-Admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 9:37 PM Subject: Possible additions to WinBMD? > Hi Ian, > > Would it be possible to have buttons to insert #COMMENT & #THEORY items so > that we’re all using the correct form for the database we are creating? > In my case, it would generally be #COMMENT(2) entry reads * or * for > Spouse’s name – with the user to insert the names in the correct case. > > If this is not deemed advantageous, could we have “copy” and “paste” > buttons or codes. I found out how to do this, but to look it up within > the program would be very helpful. > > One more item that I personally would find helpful would to be able to > search the page for a particular item. In my case, I would like to search > for “Staincross” to ensure that I have not let any 2b slip through instead > of 2d! > > Thanks for this super program – I continue to enjoy my transcribing. > Happy New Year! Patty Keffer > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Hi Ian, Would it be possible to have buttons to insert #COMMENT & #THEORY items so that we’re all using the correct form for the database we are creating? In my case, it would generally be #COMMENT(2) entry reads * or * for Spouse’s name – with the user to insert the names in the correct case. If this is not deemed advantageous, could we have “copy” and “paste” buttons or codes. I found out how to do this, but to look it up within the program would be very helpful. One more item that I personally would find helpful would to be able to search the page for a particular item. In my case, I would like to search for “Staincross” to ensure that I have not let any 2b slip through instead of 2d! Thanks for this super program – I continue to enjoy my transcribing. Happy New Year! Patty Keffer
Is this new file obligatory, or is there an opt-out? Chris Hughes -----Original Message----- From: freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ian Sent: 18 December 2011 09:33 To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: WinBMD Districts File An updated Districts file has been uploaded to FreeBMD, WinBMD will download this file when the site is next updated. There are very few changes in this file, only London and Hull are changed. Hoping everyone has a wonderful Christmas. Ian FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Chris, There is no opt-out but could you please explain exactly why you would want to opt-out? Would you please send your reply to the Discuss list. Thanks Ian -----Original Message----- From: C&D Hughes Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:49 AM To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: WinBMD Districts File Is this new file obligatory, or is there an opt-out? Chris Hughes -----Original Message----- From: freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ian Sent: 18 December 2011 09:33 To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: WinBMD Districts File An updated Districts file has been uploaded to FreeBMD, WinBMD will download this file when the site is next updated. There are very few changes in this file, only London and Hull are changed. Hoping everyone has a wonderful Christmas. Ian FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
An updated Districts file has been uploaded to FreeBMD, WinBMD will download this file when the site is next updated. There are very few changes in this file, only London and Hull are changed. Hoping everyone has a wonderful Christmas. Ian
Thanks Allan, And for being kind enough not to mention that it was me that asked the same question previously ! Ted . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> To: <freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:54 PM Subject: Re: Referred Page Numbers Drat For answer 2 the correct link is: http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/Format.shtml An extra space was inserted in error at the end of the link I gave earlier Allan Raymond --- On Fri, 9/12/11, Allan Raymond <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> wrote: From: Allan Raymond <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: Referred Page Numbers To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, 9 December, 2011, 21:23 Ted 1. A similar query was asked way back in 2008 regarding the acceptable formats. The answer at that time is shown in: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/freebmd-syndicates/2008-09/1221860453 2. #THEORY(2),REF,SEE D/64 must be the correct answer based on http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/Format.shtml which states "Note that the #THEORY(N) is put after the first record but N is the total number of records including the first". Allan Raymond FreeBMD Coordinator of Syndicates --- On Fri, 9/12/11, Ted Southcombe <ted@southcombe1.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: From: Ted Southcombe <ted@southcombe1.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Referred Page Numbers To: "FreeBMD Admins" <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, 9 December, 2011, 20:45 2 queries about referred page numbers - eg See D/64 - both only partly covered by TKB 6(q) :- 1. Is there an up-to-date list of formats acceptable to the database - D64, D'64, D,64, D/64, etc. ? 2. Weve had a couple of situations when we needed to insert a theory,ref line referring to alternate mothers names in addition to the #COMMENT(2) line. Which is correct :- #THEORY,REF,(2) SEE D/64 or #THEORY,REF(2), SEE D/64 Thanks, Ted Southcombe FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Drat For answer 2 the correct link is: http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/Format.shtml An extra space was inserted in error at the end of the link I gave earlier Allan Raymond --- On Fri, 9/12/11, Allan Raymond <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> wrote: From: Allan Raymond <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: Referred Page Numbers To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, 9 December, 2011, 21:23 Ted 1. A similar query was asked way back in 2008 regarding the acceptable formats. The answer at that time is shown in: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/freebmd-syndicates/2008-09/1221860453 2. #THEORY(2),REF,SEE D/64 must be the correct answer based on http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/Format.shtml which states "Note that the #THEORY(N) is put after the first record but N is the total number of records including the first". Allan Raymond FreeBMD Coordinator of Syndicates --- On Fri, 9/12/11, Ted Southcombe <ted@southcombe1.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: From: Ted Southcombe <ted@southcombe1.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Referred Page Numbers To: "FreeBMD Admins" <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, 9 December, 2011, 20:45 2 queries about referred page numbers - eg See D/64 - both only partly covered by TKB 6(q) :- 1. Is there an up-to-date list of formats acceptable to the database - D64, D'64, D,64, D/64, etc. ? 2. Weve had a couple of situations when we needed to insert a theory,ref line referring to alternate mothers names in addition to the #COMMENT(2) line. Which is correct :- #THEORY,REF,(2) SEE D/64 or #THEORY,REF(2), SEE D/64 Thanks, Ted Southcombe
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