In addition to keeping the WinBMD standard District Picklist up to date how are we going to deal with Districts such as "Northumberland North First" which came into being on 1 January 1937. I'm now starting to allocate 1937 to Syndicates and scans are showing "Northumberland North First" as "Nthhmbld.N.1st". WinBMD doesn't accept numerals in the District Field and it isn't really on to expect transcribers to adopt the process in http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#6ah which really was to cover a possible mistype in the District name? Allan Raymond ----- 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with Ian Brooke how the next version of WinBMD can be enhanced to address the problem of the district list getting out of date.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Team are continually revising the district information on the system but transcribers using WinBMD are working with an out of date version of this information.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