For the first time we seem to have found a 'flaw' in WinBMD - it doesn't accept District Names that have a numeral in the first (name) part! Working through 1938 March Births, we find a couple of "new" Districts: Northumberland North First,10b Northumberland North Second,10b Unfortunately for the inputter, the Index abbreviates these to Nthmbld.N.1st.,10b Nthmbld.N.2nd.,10b One can get round the first obstacle by replacing the numeral '1' with lower-case ' l ' which looks just about identical (though isn't). However, inputting 2nd as it stands produces a warning "Invalid character in District name - 2" So we are stymied and cannot TWWS. What's the solution? Transcribing it as "Second" and following it with a #COMMENT every time? Rather a bore, surely? Richard Oliver Madrid, Spain [email protected]

Richard The answer to your query is at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FreeBMD-Admins/2009-03/1238158911 I assume it is time for the newer version of WinBMD to be issued? Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Oliver" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:47 PM Subject: "Invalid Character" For the first time we seem to have found a 'flaw' in WinBMD - it doesn't accept District Names that have a numeral in the first (name) part! Working through 1938 March Births, we find a couple of "new" Districts: Northumberland North First,10b Northumberland North Second,10b Unfortunately for the inputter, the Index abbreviates these to Nthmbld.N.1st.,10b Nthmbld.N.2nd.,10b One can get round the first obstacle by replacing the numeral '1' with lower-case ' l ' which looks just about identical (though isn't). However, inputting 2nd as it stands produces a warning "Invalid character in District name - 2" So we are stymied and cannot TWWS. What's the solution? Transcribing it as "Second" and following it with a #COMMENT every time? Rather a bore, surely? Richard Oliver Madrid, Spain [email protected] 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

This is a known issue, and we are working on a solution that causes as little pain and/or boredom as possible. 2009/4/14 Richard Oliver <[email protected]> > For the first time we seem to have found a 'flaw' in WinBMD - it doesn't > accept District Names that have a numeral in the first (name) part! > > Working through 1938 March Births, we find a couple of "new" Districts: > > Northumberland North First,10b > Northumberland North Second,10b > > Unfortunately for the inputter, the Index abbreviates these to > > Nthmbld.N.1st.,10b > Nthmbld.N.2nd.,10b > > One can get round the first obstacle by replacing the numeral '1' with > lower-case ' l ' which looks just about identical (though isn't). However, > inputting 2nd as it stands produces a warning "Invalid character in District > name - 2" So we are stymied and cannot TWWS. What's the solution? > Transcribing it as "Second" and following it with a #COMMENT every time? > Rather a bore, surely? > > Richard Oliver > Madrid, Spain > [email protected] > > > > > > > > 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 > -- Dave Mayall