I have come across a handwritten entry at the bottom of my scan which is written as: NORMAN Lilian E./Ham 5A See S/50 Does any one know how I should be transcribing this.(I know the rule for entering See/50 by replacing volume number with a question mark, it's just the E/Ham that is puzzling me...Could it be Lilian E. Ham 5A, or could it be E/Ham as in East Ham,5A. Merry Christmas to you all Karan

Hi Karan East Ham was in volume 5a between 1st Jul 1947 and 31 Mar 1965, if that helps you to interpret what you read. BTW, the rule for entering See/50 by a question mark is an old rule which changed a while back. Please refer to file:///C:/FreeBMD/sources/rootsweb-FreeBMD2/html/vol_faq.html#6q Jeff told you that WinBMD won't accept a / character in the district field but will accept it in the page number field. But the FreeBMD software itself *will* accept a / character in the district field. The simplest way to do this is after you have used WinBMD to create the file, save it but do not upload it, and close WinBMD. Then open the file with Notepad (but *not* MSWord) and make the edit to add the / character. Then open WinBMD again, and when you get the pop-up "Would you line to continue using batch 1907B3N0401.BMD?" click the Yes button and then upload it in the usual way. Seasons greetings to everyone Mary Trevan =========================== FreeBMD District Aliasing Coordinator FreeCEN Coordinator for the Channel Islands 1861 and 1891 census http://www.freecen.org.uk/project.htm (Looking for volunteers to start transcribing after the holiday season -) ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karan Antonio" <karan32@tiscali.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 7:32 AM Subject: Handwritten query > I have come across a handwritten entry at the bottom of my scan which is written as: > > NORMAN Lilian E./Ham 5A See S/50 > > Does any one know how I should be transcribing this.(I know the rule for entering See/50 by replacing volume number with a question mark, it's just the E/Ham that is puzzling me...Could it be Lilian E. Ham 5A, or could it be E/Ham as in East Ham,5A. > > Merry Christmas to you all > Karan > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > Need to get a fast answer to your transcribing problems? Go to the > Transcribers Knowledge Base at http://FreeBMD.RootsWeb.com/vol_faq.html > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 > >