Hi Karen Birmingham,? is correct for what you have described. WinBMD is almost certainly giving you a warning for an unusual entry, not an error. good luck Bob Phillips ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Newnham" <karenfirewater@ntlworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Handwritten entries > Hi > > I have come across a handwritten entry at the bottom of a column. For the > district it says 'Birmingham' but no volume no. In one of the help sections > on WinBMD it says to put the district in and a question mark for volume but > WinBMD keeps coming up with an error box when I do this. It says if you use > a question mark it should be the only hing that appears in the column. So > should I be putting 'Birmingham,?' or just '?' > > In the page column I am putting 'see s/30' > > Thanks > > Karen > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD Transcribers homepage > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > > ============================== > 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 > >

Thanks Bob - This is on my first page to upload and I didnt want to upload it until I was sure I had entered the handwritten entry correctly. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Phillips" <robert.ph@ntlworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 4:46 PM Subject: Re: Handwritten entries > Hi Karen > Birmingham,? > is correct for what you have described. > WinBMD is almost certainly giving you a warning for an unusual entry, not an > error. > good luck > Bob Phillips > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen Newnham" <karenfirewater@ntlworld.com> > To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 3:40 PM > Subject: Handwritten entries > > > > Hi > > > > I have come across a handwritten entry at the bottom of a column. For the > > district it says 'Birmingham' but no volume no. In one of the help > sections > > on WinBMD it says to put the district in and a question mark for volume > but > > WinBMD keeps coming up with an error box when I do this. It says if you > use > > a question mark it should be the only hing that appears in the column. So > > should I be putting 'Birmingham,?' or just '?' > > > > In the page column I am putting 'see s/30' > > > > Thanks > > > > Karen > > > > > > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > > FreeBMD Transcribers homepage > > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > > > > ============================== > > 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. > > ============================== > 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 > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.2 - Release Date: 11/03/2005 >