A new recruit to my Syndicate, quite promising in all other respects, has a computer operating with Linux (whatever that may be) and is using "LinBMD" for transcribing. I have normal Windows Vista and WinBMD. The upshot is that I am unable to open a file sent to me for checking, and cannot use BMDVerify on it. Can anyone suggest a solution for this incompatibility, or must I tell the person concerned to get lost? Richard Oliver Syndicate Co-ordinator Madrid, Spain richol@arrakis.es

Hi All Scan2 has several Linux users and has no problems with them. Don't abandon him/her you can transfer to Scan2 if it would be easier. The problem lies with the end of line indication in the files. At 04/05/2009 09:05 AM, Richard Oliver wrote: >A new recruit to my Syndicate, quite promising in all other >respects, has a computer operating with Linux (whatever that may be) >and is using "LinBMD" for transcribing. I have normal Windows >Vista and WinBMD. > >The upshot is that I am unable to open a file sent to me for >checking, and cannot use BMDVerify on it. Can anyone suggest a >solution for this incompatibility, or must I tell the person >concerned to get lost? > >Richard Oliver >Syndicate Co-ordinator >Madrid, Spain >richol@arrakis.es > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Cheers Derek Derek C Hopkins, Phone +1(450)678-7768 6640, Biarritz, Fax +1(450)678-4252 Brossard, E-Mail derek.hopkins@sympatico.ca QC, Canada, J4Z-2A2. ==== FreeBMD - England and Wales - Birth - Marriage and Death Transcriptions <http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com> ==== Check out FreeBMD Scan2 Syndicate page (revised daily) Please bookmark our new home http://www.scan2.ca/scan2.html ==== Check out QFHS Marriage Transcription Project page (revised daily) (Quebec Family History Society) Please bookmark our new home http://www.scan2.ca/qfhs.html Check out Abney Park Indexing Project (revised 14 MAR 2008, 195,000 names) <http://scan2.ca/nlisa .html> Check out the Quebec Family History web page <http://www.qfhs.ca/index.html>

G'day I have to change my email addy due to the amount of junk mail I'm receiving Knowing this is a "closed" list, do I need to do anything special to get subscribed using my new addy please? Hooroo! Teri E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.1.441) Database version: 6.12260 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/

Hi Chris, I have instructions on the use of MacBMD at the FreeLoaders web site : http://web.mac.com/mchughton/FreeLoaders/FirstPageM.html and you are welcome to use these at any time. How to fill in the Header details are included which will answer the second part of the problem. The first part of the problem is easy for them to fix, if a little laborious. Above the transcription section the completed lines are visible in text form. Your transcriber will need to go through each line delete the comma and insert in the correct place. How this has happened is more of a mystery as the inserting is done by tabbing from the highlighted field. The district field would have '5b' so I am not sure how they have managed to leave the b out and add it to the next field. I am happy to deal direct with your transcriber on this if it makes it easier. Cheers, Tony McHugh Free Loaders. On 26/04/2009, at 14:19 , Chris Mahoney wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking for some advice re MacBMD > > I have a new transcriber who is using MacBMD, and they have just > completed > their first page, in which I noticed two main problems with the > page, but > not having a Mac myself, I don't know how to help them fix the > problems. > > The first, minor problem is that they have somehow included part of > the > volume number of every district in with the page number instead > (sample from > first entry is Stoke Damerel 5, b288) > > And the second problem is that the page came with no headers at > all. They > did say they had a problem with this when starting the page in that > they > didn't know what, and how to enter them. (I can assist with the > what once I > know the how) > > Any suggestions on what I can say to the person. Or would I be > better of > referring them to someone who knows about MacBMD (if so, who). > > Thanks > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Hi I'm looking for some advice re MacBMD I have a new transcriber who is using MacBMD, and they have just completed their first page, in which I noticed two main problems with the page, but not having a Mac myself, I don't know how to help them fix the problems. The first, minor problem is that they have somehow included part of the volume number of every district in with the page number instead (sample from first entry is Stoke Damerel 5, b288) And the second problem is that the page came with no headers at all. They did say they had a problem with this when starting the page in that they didn't know what, and how to enter them. (I can assist with the what once I know the how) Any suggestions on what I can say to the person. Or would I be better of referring them to someone who knows about MacBMD (if so, who). Thanks

Dear All, I have a new transcriber who cannot upload her file. She gets the following message: "error number 10013-the requested address is a broadcast address, but flag is not set" What advice can I give her to sort this out? (There is nothing on the message boards that helps) Lisa Siddall ID4

Hello everyone I know our marvellous FreeBMD admins have more than enough work to do, but could I please make a suggestion to put on the list for the next time the TKB is updated? Recently several of my volunteers have been confused by the wording of TKB 6(d) on how to handle handwritten amendments. In these cases, an entire line was crossed through; the pages had two handwritten late entries referring to the same person, one of which was crossed out. The deleted line should have been included, following TKB 6(z): "Include the entry and then in the line underneath put: #COMMENT Entry crossed through. " http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#6z But the volunteers found 6(d) and thought this applied: "If the original entry is crossed out, transcribe the entry with the amendment and add comment such as: #COMMENT handwritten amendment of crossed out page number XXX" http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#6d I think 6(d)'s use of "entry" in the phrase "if the original ENTRY is crossed out" (my emphasis) is what confused people; they thought it meant the whole record, when what it's talking about is an amendment to a field (page number in the example). 6(z) is clear, mentioning "all the fields" being crossed out, but unfortunately 6(d) gets seen first :-) Might it be a good idea for 6(d) to include a sentence such as "If the entire line is crossed out, see 6(z)"? And/or for "field" to be substituted for "entry" in the first mention? I'd be glad to hear what others think. -- Nowl

At the bottom of the second column of page 1931B4-B-0093 there is an unusual entry with what appears to be extra data below it. My immediate thought is to advise transcribing it as follows BOWERS,MARY E.,JACKMAN,DURHAM N.W.,1A,FIRST REG'N D'67 #COMMENT entry has handwritten annotation 18 oc ARC 24 Does anyone have alternative ideas? I can't find anything similar in TKB, though it may have come up in the lists in the past. Jeff

Hello Help !! One of my transcribers sent this and I would like some advice as to how it should be handled please. I've got a nice one on 1936B1-W-B499, second column. The surname "Wyard" has been 'ditto-ed' 46 times, but then the first ditto has been crossed out and the surname "Wyatt" has been written in by hand. There are also small hand-written ditto marks under the hand-written 'Wyatt' name. I feel there is no doubt that the 46 entries should by Wyatt and not Wyard. I have placed a comment thus: COMMENT(46) "DITTO" MARK FOR SURNAME IS CROSSED OUT AND REPLACED BY "WYATT" This is factually correct but perhaps not helpful for potential users and I think it would probably be better to simply type WYATT for the surname. Any suggestions please? What about changing my comment to. COMMENT(46) SURNAME ORIGINALLY SHOWN AS WYARD Cheers Sue Coordinator of The Recordsmiths Syndicate of volunteer transcribers working for FreeBMD. See http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ for details of the project.

I suspect that in the last week or so an update of something (either Windows or maybe some 'security' software) may have made WinBMD on Vista more unpredictable, and I had one of these mystery error messages appear a few days ago after running WinBMD on Vista successfully for months. One of my transcribers has similarly run into problems last week after having none for months. That is with 'run time error 429 Active X component can't create object'. Suggestions, for what they are worth: 1) Install as administrator and with User Account Control On 2) Tell people not to try to use WinBMD after installing it until after restarting their computer. 3) If you do get a problem, start WinBMD using 'Run as Administrator' after right-mouse-click on the WinBMD icon, then confirm it is a safe program that you trust. 4) Then try to run it as normal. It does happen that new transcribers get put off because of problems installing WinBMD. Often these are transcribers whose computer knowledge is insufficient to explain the problem clearly or to follow advice to put it right. Thinking outside the box, is it (a) feasible and (b) desirable to have a list of experienced FreeBMD volunteers in various parts of the world who might be able to advise people by phone in their area? Only once have I offered my phone number to a new transcriber having difficulties getting started, and that was some years ago, but he has clocked up well over 100,000 entries since. Another idea 'outside the box'. Get people to try installing some other free download software such as Irfanview or XnView or EditPad Lite and see if that gives them any problems. They may have a generic problem with their computer installing anything. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pingram" <johnpingram@deneswood.plus.com> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:43 AM Subject: Re: WinBMD & Vista > Installing WinBMD on a Vista OS seems to be a continuing problem for some > would be users. What is the latest state of the art? I have advised on UAC > and so on, and this Australian lady called in a computer engineer all to > no > effect. I am afraid I have lost this transcriber. > Kind regards, > John > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Jones" <red_rose_syndicate@yahoo.co.uk> > To: <FreeBMD-syndicates@rootsweb.com> > Cc: "Valerie McLeese" <valmac50@yahoo.co.uk> > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 11:18 AM > Subject: WinBMD & Vista > > > Good Morning, > > I have a user with a problem as detailed in her note below. The processes > of > rebooting and checking UAC is on have been exhausted but still the problem > exists. Can anyone please through any light as to the resolution and could > you please copy Valerie on your response as I will be unavailable for most > of today. > > Many thanks and best wishes, > Peter > Peter M Jones > Red Rose Syndicate > FreeBMD > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: V alerie McLeese <valmac50@yahoo.co..uk> > To: Peter Jones <red_rose_syndicate@yahoo.co.uk> > Sent: Sunday, 12 April, 2009 18:16:15 > Subject: Re: FreeBMD, 1845 Marriages December, Page 0028 > > > Hi Peter > thanks for everything, i am having problems as i downloaded the WinBMD > programme and i managed to complete the batch header but when i pressed to > continue my pc keeps closing the programme down and i've no idea whats > wrong > with it, i am using Windows Vista, i know Vista isn;t compatable with all > programmes > Any suggestions please > Valerie > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Installing WinBMD on a Vista OS seems to be a continuing problem for some would be users. What is the latest state of the art? I have advised on UAC and so on, and this Australian lady called in a computer engineer all to no effect. I am afraid I have lost this transcriber. Kind regards, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jones" <red_rose_syndicate@yahoo.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Cc: "Valerie McLeese" <valmac50@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 11:18 AM Subject: WinBMD & Vista Good Morning, I have a user with a problem as detailed in her note below. The processes of rebooting and checking UAC is on have been exhausted but still the problem exists. Can anyone please through any light as to the resolution and could you please copy Valerie on your response as I will be unavailable for most of today. Many thanks and best wishes, Peter Peter M Jones Red Rose Syndicate FreeBMD ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: V alerie McLeese <valmac50@yahoo.co..uk> To: Peter Jones <red_rose_syndicate@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, 12 April, 2009 18:16:15 Subject: Re: FreeBMD, 1845 Marriages December, Page 0028 Hi Peter thanks for everything, i am having problems as i downloaded the WinBMD programme and i managed to complete the batch header but when i pressed to continue my pc keeps closing the programme down and i've no idea whats wrong with it, i am using Windows Vista, i know Vista isn;t compatable with all programmes Any suggestions please Valerie ________________________________

Hi Folks, Problem resolved. My user reported "Because my pc kept saying it was closing the programme due to Data Execution Prevention so I went through it all again and managed to mark the programme as safe then i tried it again and it worked ok." Many thanks,   Peter Peter M Jones Red Rose Syndicate FreeBMD ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Peter Jones <red_rose_syndicate@yahoo.co.uk> To: FreeBMD-syndicates@rootsweb.com Cc: Valerie McLeese <valmac50@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Monday, 13 April, 2009 11:18:42 Subject: WinBMD & Vista Good Morning, I have a user with a problem as detailed in her note below. The processes of rebooting and checking UAC is on have been exhausted but still the problem exists. Can anyone please through any light as to the resolution and could you please copy Valerie on your response as I will be unavailable for most of today.  Many thanks and best wishes,     Peter Peter M Jones Red Rose Syndicate FreeBMD ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: V alerie McLeese <valmac50@yahoo.co..uk> To: Peter Jones <red_rose_syndicate@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, 12 April, 2009 18:16:15 Subject: Re: FreeBMD, 1845 Marriages December, Page 0028 Hi Peter thanks for everything, i am having problems as i downloaded the WinBMD programme and i managed to complete the batch header but when i pressed to continue my pc keeps closing the programme down and i've no idea whats wrong with it, i am using Windows Vista, i know Vista isn;t compatable with all programmes Any suggestions please  Valerie ________________________________       ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Just treat this as 46 corrections according to Transcribers Knowledge Base item 6d and transcribe twice, once with the surname Wyard and once with the surname Wyatt, the latter with the comment as suggested below. Barrie Susan & Martin Hawkins wrote: > Hello > Help !! > One of my transcribers sent this and I would like some advice as to how it should be handled please. > > > I've got a nice one on 1936B1-W-B499, second column. The surname "Wyard" has been 'ditto-ed' 46 times, but then the first ditto has been crossed out and the surname "Wyatt" has been written in by hand. There are also small hand-written ditto marks under the hand-written 'Wyatt' name. I feel there is no doubt that the 46 entries should by Wyatt and not Wyard. > > I have placed a comment thus: COMMENT(46) "DITTO" MARK FOR SURNAME IS CROSSED OUT AND REPLACED BY "WYATT" > > This is factually correct but perhaps not helpful for potential users and I think it would probably be better to simply type WYATT for the surname. > > Any suggestions please? > > What about changing my comment to. COMMENT(46) SURNAME ORIGINALLY SHOWN AS WYARD > > Cheers > Sue > > > Coordinator of The Recordsmiths Syndicate of volunteer transcribers working for FreeBMD. See http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ for details of the project. > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner--

Good Morning, I have a user with a problem as detailed in her note below. The processes of rebooting and checking UAC is on have been exhausted but still the problem exists. Can anyone please through any light as to the resolution and could you please copy Valerie on your response as I will be unavailable for most of today.  Many thanks and best wishes,     Peter Peter M Jones Red Rose Syndicate FreeBMD ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: V alerie McLeese <valmac50@yahoo.co..uk> To: Peter Jones <red_rose_syndicate@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, 12 April, 2009 18:16:15 Subject: Re: FreeBMD, 1845 Marriages December, Page 0028 Hi Peter thanks for everything, i am having problems as i downloaded the WinBMD programme and i managed to complete the batch header but when i pressed to continue my pc keeps closing the programme down and i've no idea whats wrong with it, i am using Windows Vista, i know Vista isn;t compatable with all programmes Any suggestions please  Valerie ________________________________

Allan, You have me down as not wishing to receive notification of this. Can you change that so I do get them. Thanks Linda Bailey -----Original Message----- From: Allan Raymond [mailto:allan_raymond@btinternet.com] Sent: 10 April 2009 15:11 To: freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com Subject: Deletion of Volunteers From FreeBMD 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 8 months or so. Co-ordinators are advised in advance of any volunteer to be deleted from the database and given a nominal two weeks in which to respond. (Note: Any Co-ordinator who doesn't wish to receive the advance notification is quite welcome to advise me of this requirement, in fact it saves me some work - see list at bottom of "opt" out Co-ordinators) Co-ordinators are requested to check their "Syndicate Maintenance" for details of any volunteers deleted by me as explained in http://www.freebmd.org.uk/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://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/upload-report.pl in conjunction with "Show file" at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/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 place to prevent me deleting a volunteer who has uploaded one or more records. Regards Allan Raymond Co-ordinators who have advised they DO NOT wish to receive advance notification. Ian Brooke Tony McHugh Debbie Valentine Linda Bailey Kevin Howell

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 8 months or so. Co-ordinators are advised in advance of any volunteer to be deleted from the database and given a nominal two weeks in which to respond. (Note: Any Co-ordinator who doesn't wish to receive the advance notification is quite welcome to advise me of this requirement, in fact it saves me some work - see list at bottom of "opt" out Co-ordinators) Co-ordinators are requested to check their "Syndicate Maintenance" for details of any volunteers deleted by me as explained in http://www.freebmd.org.uk/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://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/upload-report.pl in conjunction with "Show file" at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/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 place to prevent me deleting a volunteer who has uploaded one or more records. Regards Allan Raymond Co-ordinators who have advised they DO NOT wish to receive advance notification. Ian Brooke Tony McHugh Debbie Valentine Linda Bailey Kevin Howell

Please note that following the recent update (5th April) entries that have been double keyed are no longer being shown in bold in the search results. This is an error that will be corrected at the next update. Barrie --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner--

All working well and very fast. Jeff

All 4 interfaces worked perfectly at 06-04-2009/13:50 Ted Southcombe . ----- Original Message ----- From: "david mayall" <david.mayall@googlemail.com> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com>; "FreeBMD ScratchPad" <freebmd-scratchpad@mailman.aldigital.co.uk> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: Image servers > > As co-ords will be aware, we have been suffering problems with image > downloads for several weeks. > > The cause of this has been the loss of one of the two servers that provide > image downloads. > > Unfortunately, the server that failed was the server that is generally > more > reliable, and for a number of weeks, we have been limping along with a > single image server that was becoming more flaky and tempremental by the > hour. > > Immediately after the failure of the second server, we ordered two new > servers, and those servers have now been installed and commissioned. > > Before we make them live, we would like to ensure that they are performing > properly, and it would be appreciated if co-ords could test the servers > from > both the public and transcriber interfaces; > > http://images2.freebmd.org.uk/GUS > http://images3.freebmd.org.uk/GUS > http://images2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl > http://images3.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl > > Could any co-ordinators finding problems please let me know as soon as > possible > > -- > Dave Mayall > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign. >

No problems accessing the GUS pages on Macintoshes using OS 10. Peter Adams The MacPack