Having moved the following to a different list, could I please have an answer! The explanation I was given regarding the need for +PAGE,???? on the end of a file was as follows. The data compiler looks for the +PAGE entry to know which is the next file in the sequence. I had no problems with that, and it seems perfectly logical. How is the following explained? In the 1845 births there are three strands of numbers all starting from 1. Thus unless action is taken to avoid it, there will be three files with the same +PAGE number at the end of the file. Although at present +PAGE has not been added, two files that show this are 45B3A002 and 45B3J002. If the data compiler can overcome this, is +PAGE really needed? For my own reasons I did not use the numbering system as in the September quarter, thus the March quarter has unique numbers for each file. Regards Brian Smart

Hi Brian, Brian Smart wrote: > > Having moved the following to a different list, could I please have an > answer! You may have noticed its been somewhat busy today ! ... and answers need to be thought out .. I may not be the best person to answer a particular query ..... etcetcetc > > The explanation I was given regarding the need for +PAGE,???? on the end of > a file was as follows. > The data compiler looks for the +PAGE entry to know which is the next file > in the sequence. I had no problems with that, and it seems perfectly > logical. > > How is the following explained? > > In the 1845 births there are three strands of numbers all starting from 1. > Thus unless action is taken to avoid it, there will be three files with the > same +PAGE number at the end of the file. Although at present +PAGE has not > been added, two files that show this are 45B3A002 and 45B3J002. > > If the data compiler can overcome this, is +PAGE really needed? Yes, without the +PAGE we have no idea where a page starts and ends and can't easily identify missing pages. The +PAGE gives us checkpoints for the matching process. Where there are multiple strands of page numbers, I would have thought that the alphabetical sequence would make it clear which was which .. when the matching starts, the code should be able to warn that the page sequence dropped from z back to n or whatever. This can then be investigated and checked. > For my own reasons I did not use the numbering system as in the September > quarter, thus the March quarter has unique numbers for each file. My feeling about using yor own numbering system is that we lose the opportunity of matching page to page weh we come to match the double entry keying of that quarter so I would prefer that we all were consistent. However, I am not thinking clearly at the moment (headache) and have a nagging doubt on this ... Dave is probably better positioned to answer it when he returns to the fray. Cheers Graham > > Regards > > Brian Smart > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!