I came across this very same problem a few months ago. My co-ordinator suggested that I should include a #COMMENT "Entry shows age at death as lower case letter o". Hope this helps. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "david mayall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:52 AM Subject: Re: Age at death is a letter 'o' > 2009/2/3 <[email protected]> > >> I am transcribing 1933D1-B0048, which was typed on a typewriter. In the >> entry for Barclay, Mavis the age at death is shown as a lower case >> letter 'o', presumably when numeral '0' was intended. FreeBMD will not >> accept a non-numerical value. >> >> The choice seems to be as follows: >> 1. Follow TKB 6(ac) and insert an asterisk and follow the entry with - >> #COMMENT Age shown as lower case letter 'o' >> 2. Depart from TWYS and use a zero. (Bear in mind that the original >> typist's mistake may be no more than failure to select the correct case >> as some typewriters did not have zero and one; you use capital letter >> 'O' and lower case letter 'l' instead.) > > > You are correct to assume that the most likely error here is that the > typist > failed to select upper case when typing on a machine that used upper case > O > as a zero. > > Given that TWYS places less emphasis on upper/lower case, it is > permissible > to depart from the exact case of the original, and read it as an upper > case > O, and transcribe it as 0 > > -- > Dave Mayall > 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