Might we also discuss including some specific alternative district names in the list of searchable districts? Queries that have come in to the FreeBMD-admins 'mail for review' include -St Pancras not searchable before 1901 [ you have to realise that you search on 'Pancras] -London City not searchable before 1870 [you have to realise that you search on 'City of London'] Given that St. Giles usually shows up as Bloomsbury in the 1840s, should Bloomsbury be a searchable district? Similarly, Highworth usually shows up as Swindon from 1838 to 1846, so should Swindon be searchable before 1899 when it became the official name? If you do a search on a moderately common surname (I used WHITE) in 'City of London' , or in 'St.Giles' or 'Highworth' or 'St Pancras' you find that the alternative name is more or less widely used. By all means have 'London City - see City of London (1837-1869)' and so on. I realise that if people are really interested in a district they can follow links to the UKBMD GENUKI pages maintained by Brett Langston, but not everyone thinks of that. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Archer Barrie" <Barrie.Archer@uk.fujitsu.com> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com>; <freebmd-scratchpad@mailman.aldigital.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:34 AM Subject: Revised district lists for WinBMD >I am discussing with Ian Brooke how the next version of WinBMD can be > enhanced to address the problem of the district list getting out of > date. > > The issue is that the District Aliasing Team are continually revising > the district information on the system but transcribers using WinBMD are > working with an out of date version of this information. The current > proposal is that when WinBMD uploads a file to the system it will also > download a new version of the district file if one exists. This means > that subsequently the transcriber will be working with the new districts > list. > > The transcriber's locally added districts will not be affected by > downloading the new districts list. > > If anyone can see any issues with this, or would like clarification of > the proposal, please let me know. > > Barrie > > ------------------------------- > 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 >