Hi Ray, If you look at the Help and Hints for Beginners (link below), it tells you how to deal with this. If there is data missing from a field, you use a question mark, and that's what you use to replace a missing volume number. Accordingly, you should transcribe this entry as: "Wynn Thomas W. Hill S.Shields,? Sep 30" - no #COMMENT is required. Bear in mind that you only use a question mark when the data is totally missing, not simply illegible. Link for help page: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/beginhelp.shtml Edwina. On 1/15/06, Ray Harrowing <RAY@harrowing.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I've looked at knowledge base, but can't find guidance on this one - > A handwritten entry at page foot (Births, 1911) shows "Wynn Thomas W. Hill S.Shields Sep 30" > I'm OK on entering in the correct position, but the programme won't allow me to enter "S.Shields" without a vol. no. > Would a #COMMENT on the next line be appropriate? > > Thanks > > Ray. > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >
Thanks to those who've responded - that's cleared up the confusion in my oh, so confused mind! I'll have to get this UCF system under my belt before putting up another query! Happy transcribing! Ray. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matroushka" <matroushka@gmail.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 10:11 AM Subject: Re: missing vol. number (manuscript) - 1911B4-W-0319 > Hi Ray, > > If you look at the Help and Hints for Beginners (link below), it tells > you how to deal with this. If there is data missing from a field, > you use a question mark, and that's what you use to replace a missing > volume number. Accordingly, you should transcribe this entry as: > "Wynn Thomas W. Hill S.Shields,? Sep 30" - no #COMMENT is > required. Bear in mind that you only use a question mark when the > data is totally missing, not simply illegible. > > Link for help page: > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/beginhelp.shtml > > Edwina. > > > On 1/15/06, Ray Harrowing <RAY@harrowing.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've looked at knowledge base, but can't find guidance on this one - > > A handwritten entry at page foot (Births, 1911) shows "Wynn Thomas W. Hill S.Shields Sep 30" > > I'm OK on entering in the correct position, but the programme won't allow me to enter "S.Shields" without a vol. no. > > Would a #COMMENT on the next line be appropriate? > > > > Thanks > > > > Ray. > > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > > List archives > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > > > ============================== > > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/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 > > ============================== > 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 > > >