Dave et al, While we are on the subject of transcribers who are no longer active can I ask what the position is with the number of people who subscribed but have never actually transcribed anything.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

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 Sent: 03 October 2001 19:00 Subject: Re: File Owning Dave et al, While we are on the subject of transcribers who are no longer active can I ask what the position is with the number of people who subscribed but have never actually transcribed anything.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