I understand Janet's concern about the availability of email addresses on the site. In fact this subject was discussed a year ago. On the one hand it is useful to have feedback and corrections where appropriate. But it is not that long ago that one transcriber had a less than pleasant exchange with a determined user. On the other hand all those submitting personal and one-name study data would generally welcome contacts from users who may turn out to be related or have further family information. We are, after all providing a service for family historians. A year ago I suggested that a pragmatic solution would be a choice for systematic transcribers to conceal their email addresses and one-namers to reveal them, if they wish. If so there would need to be an option on the Transcriber's page to show or conceal one's email address. If the address is concealed then a default FreeBMD address would be necessary for corrections (perhaps routed to Virginia if she has not had second thoughts!) Peter Hendy-Ibbs -- Researching: IBBS from Hunts/Beds and HENDY from Pembrokeshire Transcribing and reformatting for FreeBMD (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com)

Looking through our "tasks to do " basket there is already an entry to cover this very situation which appears to go back 12 months or so ago. However this task is vying for the expertise of Dave, Barrie, Graham or Ben to implement. All these individuals are already working flat out completing other tasks in the queue. However this doesn't mean that the appropriate task can't be raised in the Priority list, I'll leave Dave and Co to offer their comments. 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: "Peter Hendy-Ibbs" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 06 October 2001 15:24 Subject: Re: Corrections I understand Janet's concern about the availability of email addresses on the site. In fact this subject was discussed a year ago. On the one hand it is useful to have feedback and corrections where appropriate. But it is not that long ago that one transcriber had a less than pleasant exchange with a determined user. On the other hand all those submitting personal and one-name study data would generally welcome contacts from users who may turn out to be related or have further family information. We are, after all providing a service for family historians. A year ago I suggested that a pragmatic solution would be a choice for systematic transcribers to conceal their email addresses and one-namers to reveal them, if they wish. If so there would need to be an option on the Transcriber's page to show or conceal one's email address. If the address is concealed then a default FreeBMD address would be necessary for corrections (perhaps routed to Virginia if she has not had second thoughts!) Peter Hendy-Ibbs -- Researching: IBBS from Hunts/Beds and HENDY from Pembrokeshire Transcribing and reformatting for FreeBMD (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com) ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp