Hi At the end of the PARKER entries in scan 1888B20400.tif there's some MALE and FEMALE entries - the very last one has ? for the name entry - they obviously didn't know which gender How do we enter the ? please - do we treat it as the field's empty or edit it in Notepad? Something different? Hooroo Teri

Teri Enter what you see, I can't honestly say if it is a ? or some other character. But there some brackets around the character so it would be transcribed similar to (?). The use of ? normally denotes an empty field, however the use of ? in the above situation is an exception to this rule. Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "gypsy" <gypsy@omninet.net.au> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 04 April 2005 04:56 Subject: question mark Hi At the end of the PARKER entries in scan 1888B20400.tif there's some MALE and FEMALE entries - the very last one has ? for the name entry - they obviously didn't know which gender How do we enter the ? please - do we treat it as the field's empty or edit it in Notepad? Something different? Hooroo Teri ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions and Archives http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/FreeUK/FreeBMD-Admins.html ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

I gave duff information, my suggestion wont allow you to upload the file to FreeBMD. Back to the drawing board. Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 07 April 2005 16:28 Subject: Re: question mark Teri Enter what you see, I can't honestly say if it is a ? or some other character. But there some brackets around the character so it would be transcribed similar to (?). The use of ? normally denotes an empty field, however the use of ? in the above situation is an exception to this rule. Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "gypsy" <gypsy@omninet.net.au> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 04 April 2005 04:56 Subject: question mark Hi At the end of the PARKER entries in scan 1888B20400.tif there's some MALE and FEMALE entries - the very last one has ? for the name entry - they obviously didn't know which gender How do we enter the ? please - do we treat it as the field's empty or edit it in Notepad? Something different? Hooroo Teri ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions and Archives http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/FreeUK/FreeBMD-Admins.html ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx ==== 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 ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx