Hi The syndicate I am in are doing 1846B1. They are handwritten and the scans are very variable in quality. As an example I have Brown, Mary, a whole sheet of them, very easy, only have to check first and last and that's fine. Although I am certainly not entering what I see. For the Districts and Volumes they can be "worked out" with a high degree of accuracy, probably 100%. The page numbers are 90% unreadable. Should this scan be rejected or transcribed. Bob Phillips

Hi, Bob Phillips wrote: > > Hi > The syndicate I am in are doing 1846B1. They are handwritten and the scans are very variable in quality. > As an example I have Brown, Mary, a whole sheet of them, very easy, only have to check first and last and that's fine. Although I am certainly not entering what I see. For the Districts and Volumes they can be "worked out" with a high degree of accuracy, probably 100%. The page numbers are 90% unreadable. As long as what you are interpreting is what you think is written rather than what you tink should have been written :) You shouldn't be correcting districts and volumes that happen not to match what you think they should be according to SpeedBMD and the like. But is, after looking at the district or the volume you can understand the writing clearer then that is ok. > Should this scan be rejected or transcribed. That's a difficult one. If the scan is transcribed then it clearly needs to be transcribed with the correct unreadable character terminology in the page numbers. As to whether the scan should be rejected .. I'll be interested in Dave's view cos he has been managing a scan syndicate for a while and probably has come across this more than I have. Cheers Graham > Bob Phillips > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!