Martin You've just beat me to my response. There are no "Unknown" surname scans showing in the Sept Quarter and when I checked out scans 776 to 793 in the June quarter there is an obvious error in the alphabetical listing of the scans. As you mention it does look as if scans 776, 777, 782 and 783 belong possibly to the September quarter leaving scans 778, 779, 780 & 781 in the June quarter. I would suggest rather than depend on system entries to correct the problem with the scans we should approach the GRO to get a definitive answer and if necessary move and renumber the scans into their correct quarter and sequence. This will avoid future problems regarding this particular issue. Perhaps the link on the Suspect Page for reporting queries against compliant files should be made a little more bold? Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Cope To: freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:16 PM Subject: Re: "Suspect" file Hi Richard, This particular case was investigated by myself and Bob Phillips two or three years ago when it was possible to inspect the original books at the FRC. It appears to be due to a mis-assembly of the books at some time long ago. So the scans are in the 'correct' place. We did however add system entries so that the entries on scans 776, 777, 782 and 783 will appear when searching in the Sep 1839 quarter. The text at the top of the Suspect Files page says how you can get a compliant file such as your team member's removed from the list. I note that Croscan user Stargazer also has two files in a similar situation. best regards, Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Oliver" <richol@arrakis.es> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:57 AM Subject: "Suspect" file >I don't know whom to contact, so please excuse my posting this query on the >list. > > One of my team is most indignant that I pointed out his having produced a > 'suspect' file that has appeared following the latest update. > > The file is numbered 1839D2U0776 and the corresponding scan image is at > GUS/1839/Deaths/June/UKD-01/P-Z/1839D2-P-Z-0776.tif. > > It transpires that this page consists of a list of 40 "Unknown" male > corpses, and it would appear to belong to a different Quarter and/or > Year - which would explain why over half the page numbers are > out-of-range. A cursory check suggests the scan should be reassigned to > 1839 September Deaths, where the page ranges fit much better. > > Richard Oliver > 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 ------------------------------- 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

Many thanks to all for the enlightening replies. From my days in the newspaper/magazine industry, I recall that odd number pages were on the right-hand side of a spread, and even numbers on the left - as they are in any book you read today. If by some chance the page numbering in the scan sequence is the reverse of this, then it would seem we are looking at two sheets of parchment, each written on two sides, which have been bound into the wrong GRO volume, 1839 September Deaths instead of June. That would explain the oddity (or eventy). Richard Oliver Madrid, Spain richol@arrakis.es ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 2:43 PM Subject: Re: "Suspect" file Martin You've just beat me to my response. There are no "Unknown" surname scans showing in the Sept Quarter and when I checked out scans 776 to 793 in the June quarter there is an obvious error in the alphabetical listing of the scans. As you mention it does look as if scans 776, 777, 782 and 783 belong possibly to the September quarter leaving scans 778, 779, 780 & 781 in the June quarter. I would suggest rather than depend on system entries to correct the problem with the scans we should approach the GRO to get a definitive answer and if necessary move and renumber the scans into their correct quarter and sequence. This will avoid future problems regarding this particular issue. Perhaps the link on the Suspect Page for reporting queries against compliant files should be made a little more bold? Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Cope To: freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:16 PM Subject: Re: "Suspect" file Hi Richard, This particular case was investigated by myself and Bob Phillips two or three years ago when it was possible to inspect the original books at the FRC. It appears to be due to a mis-assembly of the books at some time long ago. So the scans are in the 'correct' place. We did however add system entries so that the entries on scans 776, 777, 782 and 783 will appear when searching in the Sep 1839 quarter. The text at the top of the Suspect Files page says how you can get a compliant file such as your team member's removed from the list. I note that Croscan user Stargazer also has two files in a similar situation. best regards, Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Oliver" <richol@arrakis.es> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:57 AM Subject: "Suspect" file >I don't know whom to contact, so please excuse my posting this query on the >list. > > One of my team is most indignant that I pointed out his having produced a > 'suspect' file that has appeared following the latest update. > > The file is numbered 1839D2U0776 and the corresponding scan image is at > GUS/1839/Deaths/June/UKD-01/P-Z/1839D2-P-Z-0776.tif. > > It transpires that this page consists of a list of 40 "Unknown" male > corpses, and it would appear to belong to a different Quarter and/or > Year - which would explain why over half the page numbers are > out-of-range. A cursory check suggests the scan should be reassigned to > 1839 September Deaths, where the page ranges fit much better. > > Richard Oliver > 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 ------------------------------- 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