Advice please from my fellow Syndicate Co-ordinators, and/or the gurus up there... We are transcribing 1839 December Births, and one of my team has come across a peculiarity: four pages in the Index have been written out twice and bound as separate pages in proper numerical sequence. This is NOT a case of same pages scanned twice, but of two almost (but not quite) identical versions of: 1839B4-P-0139 repeated as 1839B4-P-0141 1839B4-P-0140 repeated as 1839B4-P-0142 1839B4-P-0143 repeated as 1839B4-P-0145 1839B4-P-0144 repeated as 1839B4-P-0146 Our question is: How should these be transcribed: 1) each page twice, given that this will produce double-keying for 160 records, and numerous out-of-sequence warnings? Or 2) duplicated pages only transcribed once, given that there are minor variations between versions, and that numerical sequence would be broken? Richard Oliver Madrid, Spain richol@arrakis.es

I am equally flummoxed but for a different reason and, like Richard, wonder whether someone has any ideas on how to proceed. I have lists of duplicate files under my syndicate name for several quarters that were not transcribed by my syndicate - 1863 births. However, the two transcribers involved, CharlotteB and zielle do transcribe for us, and Charlotte does for Allan's orphans - as I also used to do. In other places I can see duplicates in my name with other transcribers in the defunct Kelly Seltzle syndicate. Charlotte's and zielle's files for these quarters are not within the same syndicate anyway and should therefore be recognised as first and second transcriptions - which they are not - and I have sent the file list to support@. However, this really only concerns me because the quarter duplicates are assigned to my syndicate when they are actually for Beautiful BC and Western Oz! I can't do anything about them. I am well aware of where duplicates occur within my own syndicate - and they are there for all kinds of reasons, often coordinator error in accidently assigning the same block to different people! And there are other reasons to do with transcriber error, incomplete files etc. My main question is this: do we, as coordinators, really have to take any action on these sorts of duplicate problems? It looks a daunting task. Melda Brunette, Brunette Syndicate Auckland, New Zealand Richard Oliver wrote: >Advice please from my fellow Syndicate Co-ordinators, and/or the gurus up >there... > >We are transcribing 1839 December Births, and one of my team has come across >a peculiarity: four pages in the Index have been written out twice and >bound as separate pages in proper numerical sequence. This is NOT a case of >same pages scanned twice, but of two almost (but not quite) identical >versions of: > >1839B4-P-0139 repeated as 1839B4-P-0141 >1839B4-P-0140 repeated as 1839B4-P-0142 >1839B4-P-0143 repeated as 1839B4-P-0145 >1839B4-P-0144 repeated as 1839B4-P-0146 > >Our question is: How should these be transcribed: 1) each page twice, >given that this will produce double-keying for 160 records, and numerous >out-of-sequence warnings? Or 2) duplicated pages only transcribed once, >given that there are minor variations between versions, and that numerical >sequence would be broken? > >Richard Oliver >Madrid, Spain >richol@arrakis.es > > > >