Could someone please tell me the correct way to handle this entry. 1949M1M0338 Miller, Violet - Boyce - Southwark 5DC 1042C (in squence) Miller, Violet - Dovey - Southwark 5D 1042C (handwritten at bottom of page) Insertion point is shown at first entry. Does not say Boyce OR Dovey for spouse name. I know we should TWYS and not make assumptions although they do appear to belong together. So my question is should I be typing Boyce or Dovey for spouse name with a #COMMENT(2) or typing two separate lines. Marie.

Hi Marie, TWYS. #COMMENT is NOT appropriate as your transcription will match the scan, and #THEORY is not appropriate either as you've no reason to believe the scan is wrong - see http://www.freebmd.org.uk/comments-help.html. Any FreeBMD user who does a search for this entry without specifying the spouse name will find both entries anyway, so there's no need for you to link them. You should transcribe the case (UPPER or lower) of all the letters carefully - so 5d for the first volume, and 5D for the second. The handwritten entry has the surname, spouse name and district in large and small capitals so according to TKB 6(l) http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#6l you can transcribe them in UPPER or Mixed case like this: Miller,Violet,Boyce,Southwark,5d,1042C MILLER,Violet,DOVEY,SOUTHWARK,5D,1042C or this: Miller,Violet,Boyce,Southwark,5d,1042C Miller,Violet,Dovey,Southwark,5D,1042C You may need to temporarily turn on the WinBMD option Do Not Validate Districts to achieve that - don't forget to turn it off again afterwards ! Cheers, Mike On 29 March 2012 01:46, M. Burger <mburger@rogers.com> wrote: > Could someone please tell me the correct way to handle this entry. > > 1949M1M0338 > > Miller, Violet - Boyce - Southwark 5DC 1042C (in squence) > > Miller, Violet - Dovey - Southwark 5D 1042C (handwritten at bottom of page) > > Insertion point is shown at first entry. > > Does not say Boyce OR Dovey for spouse name. I know we should TWYS and > not make assumptions although they do appear to belong together. So my > question is should I be typing Boyce or Dovey for spouse name with a > #COMMENT(2) or typing two separate lines. > > Marie. > > > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Mike Thanks for your detailed reply. This is how I thought it should be entered but needed verification. Thanks again. Cheers. Marie. On 29/03/2012 2:10 AM, Mike Thomas wrote: > Hi Marie, > > TWYS. #COMMENT is NOT appropriate as your transcription will match the > scan, and #THEORY is not appropriate either as you've no reason to believe > the scan is wrong - see http://www.freebmd.org.uk/comments-help.html. Any > FreeBMD user who does a search for this entry without specifying the spouse > name will find both entries anyway, so there's no need for you to link them. > > You should transcribe the case (UPPER or lower) of all the letters > carefully - so 5d for the first volume, and 5D for the second. The > handwritten entry has the surname, spouse name and district in large and > small capitals so according to TKB 6(l) > http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#6l you can transcribe them in UPPER > or Mixed case like this: > > Miller,Violet,Boyce,Southwark,5d,1042C > MILLER,Violet,DOVEY,SOUTHWARK,5D,1042C > > or this: > > Miller,Violet,Boyce,Southwark,5d,1042C > Miller,Violet,Dovey,Southwark,5D,1042C > > You may need to temporarily turn on the WinBMD option Do Not Validate > Districts to achieve that - don't forget to turn it off again afterwards ! > > Cheers, > > Mike > > > > On 29 March 2012 01:46, M. Burger<mburger@rogers.com> wrote: > >> Could someone please tell me the correct way to handle this entry. >> >> 1949M1M0338 >> >> Miller, Violet - Boyce - Southwark 5DC 1042C (in squence) >> >> Miller, Violet - Dovey - Southwark 5D 1042C (handwritten at bottom of page) >> >> Insertion point is shown at first entry. >> >> Does not say Boyce OR Dovey for spouse name. I know we should TWYS and >> not make assumptions although they do appear to belong together. So my >> question is should I be typing Boyce or Dovey for spouse name with a >> #COMMENT(2) or typing two separate lines. >> >> Marie. >> >> >> >> FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins >> >> FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >