Hi, That's ok .. we have been around this one as well in the past and we have a clear statement about it :)) >From the TKB, we have: "You should transcribe what you see. If you think a letter is a capital then transcribe it as a capital, if you think it is lower case then transcribe it as lower case. If you are not sure which it is, then just pick one and transcribe it. It doesn't matter because the software will correctly cope with upper and lower case letters. You do not need to go back and redo any records just because the capitalisation seems ‘wrong’." Although this fits mainly for names, I think it applies to vol numbers as well. Even if the matching doesn't handle this at the moment (I could check the code but its too early and I am only working off half an eye at the moment :) ) it will handle it when we get round to completing its functionality in the future Cheers Graham [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > I hesitate to bring this up, but I was doing a bit of work for a one-name > study and I noticed that some of the handwritten early 1860 indices have > instances where the original indexer decided, for a few pages, to enter all > the letter b's in the volume numbers as capital B's. All of the other > letters are small (5a, 5c, 6a) and, on most of the pages, the b's are small > b's. Perhaps a new recruit was used to index these pages, or perhaps the > indexer found that a capital B was easier to write than a small b. Who knows? > > 1) To the match logic, is Plymouth 5b the same as Plymouth 5B? > 2) Is 5B (capital B) even a valid volume? > 3) (I tremble to raise the next point!<g>) Could this possibly be another > exception to the 'type EXACTLY what you see' rule? > > Regards, > Rick Elliott > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Hart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Small/Capital Letters in Volume Hi, That's ok .. we have been around this one as well in the past and we have a clear statement about it :)) >From the TKB, we have: "You should transcribe what you see. If you think a letter is a capital then transcribe it as a capital, if you think it is lower case then transcribe it as lower case. If you are not sure which it is, then just pick one and transcribe it. It doesn't matter because the software will correctly cope with upper and lower case letters. You do not need to go back and redo any records just because the capitalisation seems 'wrong'." Although this fits mainly for names, I think it applies to vol numbers as well. Even if the matching doesn't handle this at the moment (I could check the code but its too early and I am only working off half an eye at the moment :) ) it will handle it when we get round to completing its functionality in the future Cheers Graham [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > I hesitate to bring this up, but I was doing a bit of work for a one-name > study and I noticed that some of the handwritten early 1860 indices have > instances where the original indexer decided, for a few pages, to enter all > the letter b's in the volume numbers as capital B's. All of the other > letters are small (5a, 5c, 6a) and, on most of the pages, the b's are small > b's. Perhaps a new recruit was used to index these pages, or perhaps the > indexer found that a capital B was easier to write than a small b. Who knows? > > 1) To the match logic, is Plymouth 5b the same as Plymouth 5B? > 2) Is 5B (capital B) even a valid volume? > 3) (I tremble to raise the next point!<g>) Could this possibly be another > exception to the 'type EXACTLY what you see' rule? > So are there volumes with the whole surname capitalized? On searching I have several times noticed batches of names where the inputter has capitalized the surname! Peter Norman