Dear Allan, An erstwhile member of my syndicate has made a valuable contribution to the good work you are doing here, but it widens the thing out he wrote to me as follows: "Dear John Here is an extract from the FreeBMD site Start/End Of Page This can only occur in a SEQUENCED or ONENAME dataset. The page referred to is the page in the indexes rather than a page in the actual register. This data is used to assist in collation of entries and to estimate completeness. It is optional. +PAGE,PageNumber Insert one at the beginning/end of each page. The optional page number, if present, should be the number of the page that follows. If it is at the end of the dataset, it should be the page number of the following page anyway. If it is at the end of a volume, it should be 1 greater than the highest page number. On the new +PAGE site twice it says that +PAGE was compulsory. The red bit shows it wasn't. The blue bit states that both the first and last +PAGE should be n+1 Just trivial stuff but the new page is suggesting that we have been ignoring a requirement. Cheers" I assume that someone will change this as well, otherwise all your good work will come to nought. It does throw up a wider question though, the FreeBMD site continues to grow in terms of content and while I guess someone at Head Office is supposed to keep a eye on the content, isn't it time to recruit someone to act as editor so that anomalies like this can be prevented as far as possible. We probably have someone in one of the syndicates with the editorial skills to take on the task. Cheers John

Hi John Thanks for pointing out anomalies between my page and that on the FreeBMD site. I was already aware of these plus I need to ensure that our "Transcribers Knowledge Base" and "Hints and "Help For Beginners Guide" also speak from the hymn sheet. We are not so much short of an Editor, but somebody who is experienced in CVS (please don't ask, what's CVS?) to enable the changes to be made in a controlled fashion. I think my colleagues at "Head Office" will concur that I keep badgering away to ensure that the various documents are fit for purpose. However, whilst I can quite happily amend the Web Pages I am not proficient in CVS and this is one of the prerequisites of being able to amend the FreeBMD Web Pages. The easy part is the editorial side, the difficult part is the CVS side. 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: "John Slann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 29 October 2001 12:53 Subject: +PAGE Instruction - Temporary Web page Dear Allan, An erstwhile member of my syndicate has made a valuable contribution to the good work you are doing here, but it widens the thing out he wrote to me as follows: "Dear John Here is an extract from the FreeBMD site Start/End Of Page This can only occur in a SEQUENCED or ONENAME dataset. The page referred to is the page in the indexes rather than a page in the actual register. This data is used to assist in collation of entries and to estimate completeness. It is optional. +PAGE,PageNumber Insert one at the beginning/end of each page. The optional page number, if present, should be the number of the page that follows. If it is at the end of the dataset, it should be the page number of the following page anyway. If it is at the end of a volume, it should be 1 greater than the highest page number. On the new +PAGE site twice it says that +PAGE was compulsory. The red bit shows it wasn't. The blue bit states that both the first and last +PAGE should be n+1 Just trivial stuff but the new page is suggesting that we have been ignoring a requirement. Cheers" I assume that someone will change this as well, otherwise all your good work will come to nought. It does throw up a wider question though, the FreeBMD site continues to grow in terms of content and while I guess someone at Head Office is supposed to keep a eye on the content, isn't it time to recruit someone to act as editor so that anomalies like this can be prevented as far as possible. We probably have someone in one of the syndicates with the editorial skills to take on the task. Cheers John ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog