Oh if all questions could be answered as easily as this one :-) Nice to know that I wasn't just dreaming up more problems to keep the top team busy. Sheelagh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:22 PM Subject: Re: File Owning > Sheelagh > > Virginia and I are aware of this problem and have already done some work in this > area (OK Virginia did the hard ground work). > > We are just waiting for some finishing touches to be done to the software to give > both of us access to FreeBMD to remove such volunteers. > > Our most immediate attention will be given to the removal of volunteers who have > registered on the system 2 or more times (the record is currently a volunteer with > 6 SubmitterIDs). > > Allan Raymond > [email protected] > http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm > FreeBMD - putting birth marriages and deaths on the Internet > http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sheelagh Hawkins" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: 03 October 2001 19:00 > Subject: Re: File Owning > > > Dave et al, > While we are on the subject of transcribers who are no longer active can I > ask what the position is with the number of people who subscribed but have > never actually transcribed anything. When I look at the status list, there > are several hundred (a guess - I gave up at 120 and I was still on names > beginning with A!) people who have never submitted a thing. I understand > that some people help out in other ways so don't have time to do the manual > graft, but surely not that many. > Should these people be contacted to see if they intend to become active, or > if they perhaps need help to get started. > I realise that perhaps this is probably considered a minor problem on the > list of things to do - I am happy to volunteer to contact them if it is just > a case of waiting for someone to do it. Then I could pass those who need > advice on to Virginia ;-) (I said she might live to regret saying she would > handle all the newbies I could send her way) > Regards > Sheelagh > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > >
I also wish all questions could be answered this easily. Allan Raymond [email protected] http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm FreeBMD - putting birth marriages and deaths on the Internet http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheelagh Hawkins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 03 October 2001 20:50 Subject: Re: File Owning Oh if all questions could be answered as easily as this one :-) Nice to know that I wasn't just dreaming up more problems to keep the top team busy. Sheelagh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:22 PM Subject: Re: File Owning > Sheelagh > > Virginia and I are aware of this problem and have already done some work in this > area (OK Virginia did the hard ground work). > > We are just waiting for some finishing touches to be done to the software to give > both of us access to FreeBMD to remove such volunteers. > > Our most immediate attention will be given to the removal of volunteers who have > registered on the system 2 or more times (the record is currently a volunteer with > 6 SubmitterIDs). > > Allan Raymond > [email protected] > http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm > FreeBMD - putting birth marriages and deaths on the Internet > http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sheelagh Hawkins" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: 03 October 2001 19:00 > Subject: Re: File Owning > > > Dave et al, > While we are on the subject of transcribers who are no longer active can I > ask what the position is with the number of people who subscribed but have > never actually transcribed anything. When I look at the status list, there > are several hundred (a guess - I gave up at 120 and I was still on names > beginning with A!) people who have never submitted a thing. I understand > that some people help out in other ways so don't have time to do the manual > graft, but surely not that many. > Should these people be contacted to see if they intend to become active, or > if they perhaps need help to get started. > I realise that perhaps this is probably considered a minor problem on the > list of things to do - I am happy to volunteer to contact them if it is just > a case of waiting for someone to do it. Then I could pass those who need > advice on to Virginia ;-) (I said she might live to regret saying she would > handle all the newbies I could send her way) > Regards > Sheelagh > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp