Dorothy Are you saying you managed to upload a file containing a ? adjacent to other characters such as in Bill's example 331?a. I failed to upload such a file. If you could please give the exact format of the record you managed to upload it would help to provide some definitive advice in either our Hints and Help For Beginners or Transcribers' Knowledge Base Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "DOROTHY LEWIS" <dorothy.dal1@btopenworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 20 November 2005 21:55 Subject: Re: Transcribing '?' Character Bill Try uploading via your File Management - it works for me. Dorothy Bill Hounslow <billhounslow@f2s.com> wrote: I have a page no. of 331?a on one of my pages but I can't upload it with the '?' character included. I have tried enclosing the page no. string in quotes so that the entire line reads 'Fisk,Walter,Henstead,4b,"331?a"' but FreeBMD still rejects it. Is there any way it can be upload it or do I use an underscore and a #COMMENT line? Bill Hounslow (BillHo 3111) ==== 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 ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== Want to help FreeBMD? Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. ============================== 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
No sorry there was no ? - just suggested trying to upload via File Management to see if it worked that way. Apologies if I misled anyone. Dorothy Allan Raymond <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> wrote: Dorothy Are you saying you managed to upload a file containing a ? adjacent to other characters such as in Bill's example 331?a. I failed to upload such a file. If you could please give the exact format of the record you managed to upload it would help to provide some definitive advice in either our Hints and Help For Beginners or Transcribers' Knowledge Base Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "DOROTHY LEWIS" To: Sent: 20 November 2005 21:55 Subject: Re: Transcribing '?' Character Bill Try uploading via your File Management - it works for me. Dorothy Bill Hounslow wrote: I have a page no. of 331?a on one of my pages but I can't upload it with the '?' character included. I have tried enclosing the page no. string in quotes so that the entire line reads 'Fisk,Walter,Henstead,4b,"331?a"' but FreeBMD still rejects it. Is there any way it can be upload it or do I use an underscore and a #COMMENT line? Bill Hounslow (BillHo 3111) ==== 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 ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== Want to help FreeBMD? Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. ============================== 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 ==== Want to help FreeBMD? Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. ============================== 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