Hello! I need some help with a late entry reference. The file is from 1918 December births: http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1918/Births/December/ANC-04/S-Z/1918B4-Y-0240.jpg and there are two lines that have late entries in their page fields - Worland,Irene D.,Worland,Hendon,3a,See Dec1926 and Wormstone,Phyllis M.,Ashley,Wellington,?,See Sept [23]4 With this second one, I wasn't sure whether it was referring to 1924 or 1934 so I put the either/or option. I'm new to transcribing and had already uploaded the file before I realised that I should have included #THEORY,REF lines for both those entries. I went back to edit them, but kept getting a warning message for the second one: * Invalid late entry reference, at line 91, should be "#THEORY,REF,See quarter/year", e.g. "#THEORY,REF,See D/89" (got #THEORY,REF,See S/[23]4) The system doesn't seem to like the year being either 24 or 34. In the end I entered it as "S/34" as the scrawly digit looked a bit more like a three than a two... But I left the preceding page field as "See Sept [23]4". Was that the right thing to do? Perhaps someone else will look at the scan and decide it's definitely "34" and I can go back and fix it, but the question remains, is there some way of entering a late entry reference date as "See S/[23]4"? Regards, Catherine
Hi Catherine, Having taken a look at the scan image, I think I would be willing to wager a large amount of money (if I had any), on the entry reading as follows: Wormstone,Phyllis M.,Ashley,Wellington,?,See Sept 34 I hope that helps you. Carrie :) ________________________________ From: Catherine Eldridge <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 4 February, 2009 9:45:36 Subject: late entry references Hello! I need some help with a late entry reference. The file is from 1918 December births: http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1918/Births/December/ANC-04/S-Z/1918B4-Y-0240.jpg and there are two lines that have late entries in their page fields - Worland,Irene D.,Worland,Hendon,3a,See Dec1926 and Wormstone,Phyllis M.,Ashley,Wellington,?,See Sept [23]4 With this second one, I wasn't sure whether it was referring to 1924 or 1934 so I put the either/or option. I'm new to transcribing and had already uploaded the file before I realised that I should have included #THEORY,REF lines for both those entries. I went back to edit them, but kept getting a warning message for the second one: * Invalid late entry reference, at line 91, should be "#THEORY,REF,See quarter/year", e.g. "#THEORY,REF,See D/89" (got #THEORY,REF,See S/[23]4) The system doesn't seem to like the year being either 24 or 34. In the end I entered it as "S/34" as the scrawly digit looked a bit more like a three than a two... But I left the preceding page field as "See Sept [23]4". Was that the right thing to do? Perhaps someone else will look at the scan and decide it's definitely "34" and I can go back and fix it, but the question remains, is there some way of entering a late entry reference date as "See S/[23]4"? Regards, Catherine 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message