Hi, On 7 Sep 2001, at 2:01, Steve wrote: Date forwarded: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:56:33 -0600 From: "Steve" <[email protected]> > Dave Mayall wrote..... > >"As transcription and more formal checking proceeds, the people who > >are given >responsibility for deciding between 2 variant readings by > >different transcribers will be given >appropriate access to flag > >entries as incorrect (although they STILL can't alter what you have > >transcribed)" > > Don't know if there may be some technical, philosophical, or logical) > reason against this idea..... if people go to all the trouble to look > at the variant readings and decide which one is *definitely* correct; > then wouldn't it be better that they be given access to alter what is > incorrect and and have *their* id placed against the corrected entry? Of course, the checker can just submit their own version of an entry. This doesn't need any special programming, but the person with the correction does need to make some effort. Cheers Camilla -- Camilla Gemmingen von Massenbach Email: [email protected] FreeBMD co-founder http://FreeBMD.RootsWeb.com/ IIGS member http://www.iigs.org/ Personal site: http://www.links.org/surnames.htm