On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:39:03 -0000, you wrote: >Hi Tony > >this has happened to some of mine when they have not received, or not dealt >properly with, the 'challenge' email. > >The transcriber should go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/bmd-files.pl >and enter their submitter-id, then follow the 'Forgotten your password' >route. The transcriber will get a new 'challenge' email. > >Reasons for not getting the 'challenge' email include misspelling the email >address, and possibly spam-trapping by ISPs. > >If the email address was mis-spelled, the 'challenge' email will not reach >them. You can check this by comparing the email address used in contacting >you with that on Syndicate Maintenance, letter by letter if necessary. If >the email address was mis-spelled the transcriber either needs to adopt the >misspelled address, even if only to get the automatic challenge email, or, I >suspect, re-register with a different submitter-id. > >I am open to correction on this. If it's down to an error in the e-mail address, we can fix it. Just let Allan know, and all will be well. -- Dave Mayall

Hi Tony this has happened to some of mine when they have not received, or not dealt properly with, the 'challenge' email. The transcriber should go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/bmd-files.pl and enter their submitter-id, then follow the 'Forgotten your password' route. The transcriber will get a new 'challenge' email. Reasons for not getting the 'challenge' email include misspelling the email address, and possibly spam-trapping by ISPs. If the email address was mis-spelled, the 'challenge' email will not reach them. You can check this by comparing the email address used in contacting you with that on Syndicate Maintenance, letter by letter if necessary. If the email address was mis-spelled the transcriber either needs to adopt the misspelled address, even if only to get the automatic challenge email, or, I suspect, re-register with a different submitter-id. I am open to correction on this. Otherwise contact Allan or Virginia from links on http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ctroles.html Jeff -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 06/01/2005

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:05:39 -0000, you wrote: >Dear All, > > > >One of my volunteers has alerted me to the fact that access cannot be gained >to the scan pages. I have tried numerous times myself, and also cannot gain >entry. > > > >Is the problem with FreeBMD? Yes, we had a server problem, but it's fixed now. -- Dave Mayall

Hi All, There is a problem at the FreeBMD end at the moment. It is being looked into. you can still download the images you need by using the public access method. Go to http://images.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl and follow the instructions. Kevin S. Howell FreeBMD Corrections Coordinator FreeBMD (KSH Double) syndicate Coordinator UK GRO Indexes on the web at http://freebmd.rootsweb.com E-Mail [email protected] or [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Lisa Dominey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 2005 January 06 20:06 To: [email protected] Subject: Access Denied to Scan Pages Dear All, One of my volunteers has alerted me to the fact that access cannot be gained to the scan pages. I have tried numerous times myself, and also cannot gain entry. Is the problem with FreeBMD? Regards, Lisa Dominey ID4 Syndicate Coordinator -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 06/01/2005 ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== Need to get a fast answer to your transcribing problems? Go to the Transcribers Knowledge Base at http://FreeBMD.RootsWeb.com/vol_faq.html ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

Dear All, One of my volunteers has alerted me to the fact that access cannot be gained to the scan pages. I have tried numerous times myself, and also cannot gain entry. Is the problem with FreeBMD? Regards, Lisa Dominey ID4 Syndicate Coordinator -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 06/01/2005

Hi John, you will find that with any given quarter, you will find that about 2,000 entries have already been transcribed that way before your syndicate starts on them Steve Gaunt Croscan ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Slann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 1:11 PM Subject: A mystery transcriber > In checking files uploaded by members of my syndicate I have come across an interloper. This person appears to have an interest in the Worsley Surname and has transcribed just the Worsley surnames from scans allocated to my syndicate. She ignores other names from within the scan. I know her name and submitter ID. As her file names are part duplications of full transcriptions made by my syndicate members I have a problem. > > Questions, how can we stop her and how do I remove these rogue files? > > John > > > ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 >

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:11:53 -0000, you wrote: >In checking files uploaded by members of my syndicate I have come across an interloper. This person appears to have an interest in the Worsley Surname and has transcribed just the Worsley surnames from scans allocated to my syndicate. She ignores other names from within the scan. I know her name and submitter ID. As her file names are part duplications of full transcriptions made by my syndicate members I have a problem. > >Questions, how can we stop her and how do I remove these rogue files? Why would we wish to stop her? One-Name files are perfectly normal. -- Dave Mayall

This sounds like someone with an interest in a one-name study. So I don't understand why you should want to stop her and remove her files. Or have I missed something? Mary Trevan ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Slann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 1:11 PM Subject: A mystery transcriber > In checking files uploaded by members of my syndicate I have come across an interloper. This person appears to have an interest in the Worsley Surname and has transcribed just the Worsley surnames from scans allocated to my syndicate. She ignores other names from within the scan. I know her name and submitter ID. As her file names are part duplications of full transcriptions made by my syndicate members I have a problem. > > Questions, how can we stop her and how do I remove these rogue files? > > John > > > ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 >

John One name study uploads are allowed. However if these are deliberate rogue entries we can do something about it If you can email me off list with details of the volunteer and the event/periods of the files uploaded I can check it out for you. Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: John Slann <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 02 January 2005 12:12 Subject: A mystery transcriber In checking files uploaded by members of my syndicate I have come across an interloper. This person appears to have an interest in the Worsley Surname and has transcribed just the Worsley surnames from scans allocated to my syndicate. She ignores other names from within the scan. I know her name and submitter ID. As her file names are part duplications of full transcriptions made by my syndicate members I have a problem. Questions, how can we stop her and how do I remove these rogue files? John ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== Want to help FreeBMD? Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429

In checking files uploaded by members of my syndicate I have come across an interloper. This person appears to have an interest in the Worsley Surname and has transcribed just the Worsley surnames from scans allocated to my syndicate. She ignores other names from within the scan. I know her name and submitter ID. As her file names are part duplications of full transcriptions made by my syndicate members I have a problem. Questions, how can we stop her and how do I remove these rogue files? John

Sunday, January 2, 2005, 10:34:02 AM Hi, Would someone familiar with handwritten entry scans, please inform me of what percentage of the scan do they believe should be unreadable before a request for a re-scan is made? An example of the worst so far can be found at http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1863/Deaths/December/UKD-02/A-B 1863D4-B-0356.tif -- Regards, Tony

Hi Ian Scan 322 is an exact duplicate of scan 325. Scan 322 is the scan that is out of place and should not be transcribed/uploaded. Here's the reasons why: The alphabetical order supports 325 being correct. The person who wrote 325 (let's call him Bennets) got his allocation starting at 324. The normal allocation was 400 which is 8 pages at 40 lines per page. You'll see the new writer starts at scan 332 but his/her name is unreadable. Taking the same logic forward in the scans we would expect the previous writer to have started their allocation at 316 but in fact it starts at 315 showing an extra scan has been slipped in. cheers and happy new year to everyone Bob Phillips ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Brooke" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 4:00 PM Subject: 1851 Deaths Q2 Pages 322 and 325 > Hi, > The above two pages appear in the "Self-Confirmed" list as duplicates transcribed by Anne Margolis. On checking, the two pages are duplicate scans but the pages around them seem confused ...... > > Page 319 ends - Masterman, Charles > Page 320 Masterman, Elizabeth to Mather, Ellen > Page 321 Mather, George to Mathews, James > The above pages look Ok, but then > Page 322 Matthews, George Tryal to Mathews, Mary > Page 323 Mathews, John to Mattenby, S* (note Mathews with one t) > The above two pages don't follow on at all, not from page 321 nor from each other > Page 324 Matters, Mary to Matthews, George Henry > Page 325 Matthews, George Tryal > These appear Ok. > > I don't know for sure which are the correct pages. I suspect that page 322 is a wrong scan somehow. > > I don't know what to tell Anne to do about the entry on the Self-Confirmed list. > > Any suggestions? > > Ian > > > ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== > To find out about the FreeBMD project please start at > http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

In message <[email protected]>, Keith Simpson <[email protected]> writes >I have a new transcriber who is having a problem downloading thier first >scan. They are using TURNPIKE? Which I believe is something to do with DEMON >ISP. Can anybody help please. Using Turnpike 6.04U Turnpike is the email/news reader. Connect is the part of the program that gets them online and they'd then download via their browser. I think the problem is FreeBMD rather than at the transcriber's end as I can't get on it at all now - other sites are fine. also failed uploading a file through WinBMD. However, if it persists, your transcriber can email me directly if s/he wishes. -- Philip Powell Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland to The Cheviot

I have a new transcriber who is having a problem downloading thier first scan. They are using TURNPIKE? Which I believe is something to do with DEMON ISP. Can anybody help please. Keith

Hi, The above two pages appear in the "Self-Confirmed" list as duplicates transcribed by Anne Margolis. On checking, the two pages are duplicate scans but the pages around them seem confused ...... Page 319 ends - Masterman, Charles Page 320 Masterman, Elizabeth to Mather, Ellen Page 321 Mather, George to Mathews, James The above pages look Ok, but then Page 322 Matthews, George Tryal to Mathews, Mary Page 323 Mathews, John to Mattenby, S* (note Mathews with one t) The above two pages don't follow on at all, not from page 321 nor from each other Page 324 Matters, Mary to Matthews, George Henry Page 325 Matthews, George Tryal These appear Ok. I don't know for sure which are the correct pages. I suspect that page 322 is a wrong scan somehow. I don't know what to tell Anne to do about the entry on the Self-Confirmed list. Any suggestions? Ian

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/SelfConfirmed.html <http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/SelfConfirmed.html> I would suggest transcribing the entry twice as Jones, Evan P. Porter, ... Jones, Evan P. Gordon, ... this being as close as I think you can get to Type What You See. Barrie -----Original Message----- From: Ian Brooke [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 December 2004 20:55 To: Dave Mayall; Barrie Archer; Allan Raymond; FreeBMD Syndicate-List Subject: Fw: Unusual Entry I'm unsure if my email is playing up again or what. I sent this post to the syndicate list some days ago but I haven't seen either a copy of it or had any replies. Further attempts elsewhere to get it answered have drawn a blank. I'm posting this again in the hope that someone can help. As an aside, I saw a recent post from (possibly) Barrie regarding a report showing files uploaded more than once by a single transcriber but I've lost the link - could someone remind me please. Regards Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Brooke <mailto:[email protected]> To: FreeBMD Syndicate-List <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:19 PM Subject: Unusual Entry Hi All, Would you please take a look at 1910 Marriages Q4 (Dec) Section A-J Page 491. At the bottom on column 1 is a hand-written additional entry for "Jones, Evan P." but after the "P." is written the names "Porter" "Gordon" one above the other but joined by curly brackets. I haven't the slightest idea what this means, nor, more importantly, how on earth to transcribe it. Any suggestions? Thanks Ian

Yes please. Thanks Barrie > -----Original Message----- > From: gypsy [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 30 December 2004 07:09 > To: [email protected] > Subject: re Self-Confirmed Entries > > > And when we find one where a trannie has done the same page > twice, would you like us to have one deleted so it doesn't > show up each update? > > > > Teri > > > > > ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== > To find out about the FreeBMD project please start at http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx

And when we find one where a trannie has done the same page twice, would you like us to have one deleted so it doesn't show up each update? Teri

My regular reminder to Syndicate Co-ordinators about the ongoing process to delete from the FreeBMD database those volunteers who haven't uploaded any records even though they have been registered on FreeBMD for 12 months or so. Co-ordinators are now advised in advance of any volunteer to be deleted from the database and given a nominal two weeks in which to respond. Co-ordinators are requested to check their "Syndicate Maintenance" for details of any volunteers deleted by me as explained in http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/delete_submitterID.html. The deleted volunteers are shown at the bottom of the "Current Submitters" window of the Maintain Syndicate page. This will give Co-ordinators opportunity to reallocate any transcription work given to the deleted volunteers. As this is a two way exercise, I would highly recommend to all Co-ordinators they check their "Upload Reports" via http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/upload-report.pl in conjunction with "Show file" at: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/show-file.pl to establish if long standing allocations to their volunteers have been transcribed and uploaded to FreeBMD. I have assumed this process to be part of the checking process adopted by all Co-ordinators. This check should identify volunteers who registered a while ago but have not uploaded any files. This will prevent me inadvertently deleting a volunteer in error. There are safeguards in the system to prevent me deleting a volunteer who has uploaded one or more records. Regards Allan Raymond

Hi Barrie, My Syndicate is working on those pages against its name and it appears that the main cause is duplicated scans. Is there a rule that should be followed when a scan is a duplicate of the previous one? Tony McHugh Archer Barrie wrote: > Syndicate coordinators are reminded of > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/SelfConfirmed.html > <http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/SelfConfirmed.html> which contains a list of > files which are showing in the database as having entries that are double > keyed but the double keying appears to have been done by the same > transcriber. This listing has been enhanced for the latest update to include > the syndicate name(s) and the total number of entries in the file. > > Please note that because of the length of some syndicate names and the > occurrence of multiple syndicate membership, the syndicate name is only > given for the first file of each user. > > It would appear that a file can appear in this list for a number of reasons: > 1) Transcriber has made changes/corrections and uploaded the file under a > different name > 2) A ONENAME or RANDOM transcriber has included the same entry more than > once > 3) A RANDOM transcriber has included entries without volume or page (i.e. > with ? in both volume and page) > 4) Files have been amalgamated into one file but the original files not > deleted > 5) Transcriber accidently transcribed the same entry twice > 6) Transcriber did the same page twice (but gave it a different filename) > > Sometimes the list contains files that are correct and these can be excluded > from the list. I have done this for a number of files, covering the > following cases: > 1) A large number of entries only partially readable > 2) A number of Unknown,Male deaths registered at the same time (presumably a > disaster) > > Would coordinators please check the list and take appropriate corrective > action. If a file is correct and should be excluded from the list please let > me know. > > Thank you > > Barrie > > > ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >