Hi Dave and Pete I've uploaded 5 one name personal files, no +BREAK. 2 births, 1 marr and 2 deaths. All various years. I used this as the third line +FORMAT,Surname,Firstname,District,Volume,Page,Quarter,Year,Type Can you let me know if I need to change them. Bob Phillips ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mayall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: Re: March 1867 Marriages, Page 75 > Quoting Peter Hendy-Ibbs <[email protected]>: > > > Dave Mayall wrote: > > > > >The align function fails if it tries to work with too many records at > > >once. the most common cause of this is that one of the transcriber has > > >submitted a file containing more than one page, but has failed to put > > >the +PAGE lines in to separate the pages. The same occurs in a ONENAME > > >dataset if +BREAK lines are missed, or if a One Name study is > > >submitted as a type of RANDOM. > > > > Blimey Dave! That probably relates to most of the 350 files I've > > processed from contributors. Some of these personal data files are > > quite > > large. Will this problem be solved by tweaking the software or do you > > hope (cof!) that I'll re-edit all the files? :-( > > I'm sure we could do some processing of your files to fix them. > > e-mail me off list to discuss what files need fixing. > > -- > Dave Mayall > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through UK Online webmail > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >