Hi Derek, John Mellor & Administrators I am a member of scan2 & John Mellors syndicates. Regarding Derek's statement > We DO type a period with an Initial or abbreviation in the Forename and > District name fields (They are there). The occurence of a period after an initial is totally inconsistent in the index and most of the time it is impossible to work out if there is one there or not. I decided NOT to include the period as I felt it did nothing to invalidate the data, and spending time on working out if it was there or not was totally wasted. If it is now decided that a period MUST be included after initials if it is there then I am afraid I am going to bow out of this exercise as this IMHO falls totally in the area of 'formatting tools' and I have no wish to waste my time pouring over the data working out if a period is there or not. Please let me know if you wish me to continue. regards eddie [email protected] South coast of Hampshire, England ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek C Hopkins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "116 Sue Burton" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:22 AM Subject: What you see... and Periods. > Hi All scan2 members. > > Please do NOT type the periods in the DEATH FORENAME fields except > with an initial. Exactly as we have been doing in the Births and Marriages. > > We have over 300 pages already typed in the DEATH indexes that do > not have the period. And I believe it is wrong for the following > reasons. Until it is resolved we will continue with NO period with > Forenames only with initials. > > We have some confusion over "Type what you see" and periods. > > There is true data in the indexes and there are some formatting > tools there also. > > In Births and Marriages we Type what we see except for the following. > We do not type the "," (comma) that follows the Surname. > We do not type the row of dots between the Forenames and the District name. > We do not type the "." (period) between the district and the page number. > We DO type a period with an Initial or abbreviation in the Forename and > District name fields (They are there). > > In Deaths we Type what we see except for the following. > We do not type the "," (comma) that follows the Surname. > We do not type the row of dots between the Age and the District name. > We do not type the "." (period) between the district code and the page number. > We DO type a period with an Initial or abbreviation in the Forename and > District name fields (They are there). > > We should NOT TYPE the "." (period) between the Forename and the Age It is > there for the same reason, as a separator that we do not type. Otherwise > it would be shown in the Births and marriages as well.. > > If we do type it then we must also type a period after each > district code and the comma with each Surname. Otherwise we are not > consistent. > > > Cheers Derek > > Derek C Hopkins, Phone +1(450)678-7768 > 6640, Biarritz, Fax +1(450)678-4252 > Brossard, E-Mail [email protected] > QC, Canada, J4Z-2A2. > > ==== FreeBMD - England and Wales - Birth - Marriage and Death Transcriptions > <http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com> > > ==== Check out FreeBMD Scan2 Syndicate page (revised weekly) > <http://www.cam.org/~hopkde/scan2.html> > > Check out my web page (22jan1997) Last Revised 28 May 1998 > <http://www.cam.org/~hopkde/index.html> > > Check out Abney Park Indexing Project (revised 14 MAR 2000, 195,000 names) > <http://www.cam.org/~hopkde/abney.html> > > Check out my web Ramsgate page > <http://members.adept.co.uk/hopkde> > > Check out the Quebec Family History web page > <http://www.cam.org/~qfhs/index.html> > >