A fairly accurate number of birth records for 1938 March Births is 159607. Derived from 1057 pages in the Index for this quarter multiplied by 151 (entries per page) Why 151? Because 322 pages uploaded to date for this quarter realised 48670 entries (48670/322 = 151.15). The same could be done for the other quarters. Or is this a flawed way to calculate the totals? Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barrie" <freebmd@myarcher.net> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Progress Bar-charts not updated? The reason turns out to be that, for Births, we only have totals from the GRO up to 1937. For Marriages and Deaths we have the totals up to 1983. Since the graphs are percentages, not having the total makes it kinda difficult! I have no idea how we got the totals from the GRO but I will investigate. Barrie Richard Oliver wrote: > Someone is going to ask me this question in the next few hours, so can > someone else please help me with a ready answer? > > My Syndicate has been busying away at 1938 March Births for 6-7 weeks, and > we have collectively uploaded around 235 page files (35,000 records), > around 23% of the Quarter. And yet the chart at > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progressB.shtml#1930 suggests we haven't done > a stroke of work, and shows zero. > > The chart itself must be out of sync, as a random check - on just a couple > of records uploaded by me - shows they are indeed in the database. So how > come a discrepancy like that? > > Richard Oliver > Madrid, Spain > richol@arrakis.es > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner-- ------------------------------- 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

Is this where we got or can get the totals? Births: 1837-1937 - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=4202&More=Y Births: 1938-2004 - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=4274&More=Y Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Progress Bar-charts not updated? A fairly accurate number of birth records for 1938 March Births is 159607. Derived from 1057 pages in the Index for this quarter multiplied by 151 (entries per page) Why 151? Because 322 pages uploaded to date for this quarter realised 48670 entries (48670/322 = 151.15). The same could be done for the other quarters. Or is this a flawed way to calculate the totals? Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barrie" <freebmd@myarcher.net> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Progress Bar-charts not updated? The reason turns out to be that, for Births, we only have totals from the GRO up to 1937. For Marriages and Deaths we have the totals up to 1983. Since the graphs are percentages, not having the total makes it kinda difficult! I have no idea how we got the totals from the GRO but I will investigate. Barrie Richard Oliver wrote: > Someone is going to ask me this question in the next few hours, so can > someone else please help me with a ready answer? > > My Syndicate has been busying away at 1938 March Births for 6-7 weeks, and > we have collectively uploaded around 235 page files (35,000 records), > around 23% of the Quarter. And yet the chart at > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progressB.shtml#1930 suggests we haven't done > a stroke of work, and shows zero. > > The chart itself must be out of sync, as a random check - on just a couple > of records uploaded by me - shows they are indeed in the database. So how > come a discrepancy like that? > > Richard Oliver > Madrid, Spain > richol@arrakis.es > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner-- ------------------------------- 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

2009/5/26 Allan Raymond <allan_raymond@btinternet.com>: > Is this where we got or can get the totals? > > Births: 1837-1937  - > http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=4202&More=Y > > Births: 1938-2004 - > http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=4274&More=Y The totals certainly come from statbase, although the lack of a single set telling us what we need to know usually means some interesting calculations!

This probably gives a good estimate. It can obviously be perturbed by blank pages, etc. If we cannot get the information from ONS it is a route we may have to take. Barrie Allan Raymond wrote: > A fairly accurate number of birth records for 1938 March Births is 159607. > > Derived from 1057 pages in the Index for this quarter multiplied by 151 > (entries per page) > > Why 151? > > Because 322 pages uploaded to date for this quarter realised 48670 entries > (48670/322 = 151.15). > > The same could be done for the other quarters. > > Or is this a flawed way to calculate the totals? > > Allan Raymond > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barrie" <freebmd@myarcher.net> > To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:07 AM > Subject: Re: Progress Bar-charts not updated? > > > The reason turns out to be that, for Births, we only have totals from > the GRO up to 1937. For Marriages and Deaths we have the totals up to 1983. > > Since the graphs are percentages, not having the total makes it kinda > difficult! > > I have no idea how we got the totals from the GRO but I will investigate. > > Barrie > > Richard Oliver wrote: > >> Someone is going to ask me this question in the next few hours, so can >> someone else please help me with a ready answer? >> >> My Syndicate has been busying away at 1938 March Births for 6-7 weeks, and >> we have collectively uploaded around 235 page files (35,000 records), >> around 23% of the Quarter. And yet the chart at >> http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progressB.shtml#1930 suggests we haven't done >> a stroke of work, and shows zero. >> >> The chart itself must be out of sync, as a random check - on just a couple >> of records uploaded by me - shows they are indeed in the database. So how >> come a discrepancy like that? >> >> Richard Oliver >> Madrid, Spain >> richol@arrakis.es >> >> >> > > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner-- > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner--