Hello everyone One of my volunteers has asked me about a handwritten addition in March 1939 Births which seems to have two page references, something I haven't seen before. The page is: <URL:http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1939/Births/March/ANC-05/A-J/1939B1 -B-0044.jpg> . At the foot of column 2 is a handwritten entry: Barker Ann G. Fage Surrey South-Eastern 5G which ends with two lines bracketed together. They look to me like 0199/S and J73. I've seen both formats before (but not together), and have read that the first may have something to do with adoption. The second seems a straightforward late entry reference, and there is a Barker Ann Georgina in Surrey S.E., 5G, in the index for June 1973 that could be her, though the mother's maiden name there is Barker. What I'm wondering is how best to transcribe this. . . my volunteer has put the whole thing, 0199/S J73, into the page field, but it's generating a warning from the FreeBMD database and she wants to know if she should change it. Any advice, thoughts or observations gratefully received! -- Nowl

Using TKB 6p and 6u and noting that the original is in upper case, how about: BARKER, ANN G., FAGE, SURREY SOUTH-EASTERN, 5G, 0199/S #Comment(2) Entry reads 0199/S J73 for page BARKER, ANN G., FAGE, SURREY SOUTH-EASTERN, 5G, J73 By the way, I have my doubts about J73 and wonder if it could be 573 or 583 Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nowl Sent: 21 March 2009 15:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Two page references? Hello everyone One of my volunteers has asked me about a handwritten addition in March 1939 Births which seems to have two page references, something I haven't seen before. The page is: <URL:http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1939/Births/March/ANC-05/A-J/1939B1 -B-0044.jpg> . At the foot of column 2 is a handwritten entry: Barker Ann G. Fage Surrey South-Eastern 5G which ends with two lines bracketed together. They look to me like 0199/S and J73. I've seen both formats before (but not together), and have read that the first may have something to do with adoption. The second seems a straightforward late entry reference, and there is a Barker Ann Georgina in Surrey S.E., 5G, in the index for June 1973 that could be her, though the mother's maiden name there is Barker. What I'm wondering is how best to transcribe this. . . my volunteer has put the whole thing, 0199/S J73, into the page field, but it's generating a warning from the FreeBMD database and she wants to know if she should change it. Any advice, thoughts or observations gratefully received! -- Nowl 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 message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.22/2015 - Release Date: 03/20/09 19:01:00

Thanks for that, Michael. >Using TKB 6p and 6u and noting that the original is in upper case, how >about: > >BARKER, ANN G., FAGE, SURREY SOUTH-EASTERN, 5G, 0199/S >#Comment(2) Entry reads 0199/S J73 for page >BARKER, ANN G., FAGE, SURREY SOUTH-EASTERN, 5G, J73 > This is what I'm wondering, whether the line should be entered twice. Doesn't TKB 6(p) say the brackets should be ignored and the line typed as one, as my volunteer has done? I'm not sure it would apply in this sort of situation, though; in the TKB example what was being bracketed together was a name and title, which is rather different. > >By the way, I have my doubts about J73 and wonder if it could be 573 or 583 > I don't think it's 583 but it could well be 573, and the entry in June '73 a coincidence :-) -- Nowl

> I don't think it's 583 but it could well be 573, and the entry in June > '73 a coincidence :-) Alternatively it could be a similar case to one of my relations. He was registered under his mothers surname but his parents married a few weeks later. When he was going to be married he went to Durham and registered himself with his father's name. So he now appears as a late entry under his father's surname and still shows under his mother's surname. There is a third reference in the year that he changed his birth registration. Susan