My regular reminder to Syndicate Co-ordinators about the ongoing process to delete from the FreeBMD database those volunteers who haven't uploaded any records even though they have been registered on FreeBMD for 8 months or so. Co-ordinators are advised in advance of any volunteer to be deleted from the database and given a nominal two weeks in which to respond. (Note: Any Co-ordinator who doesn't wish to receive the advance notification is quite welcome to advise me of this requirement, in fact it saves me some work - see list at bottom of "opt" out Co-ordinators) Co-ordinators are requested to check their "Syndicate Maintenance" for details of any volunteers deleted by me as explained in http://www.freebmd.org.uk/delete_submitterID.html . The deleted volunteers are shown at the bottom of the "Current Submitters" window of the Maintain Syndicate page. This will give Co-ordinators opportunity to reallocate any transcription work given to the deleted volunteers. As this is a two way exercise, I would highly recommend to all Co-ordinators they check their "Upload Reports" via http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/upload-report.pl in conjunction with "Show file" at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/show-file.pl to establish if long standing allocations to their volunteers have been transcribed and uploaded to FreeBMD. I have assumed this process to be part of the checking process adopted by all Co-ordinators. This check should identify volunteers who registered a while ago but have not uploaded any files. This will prevent me inadvertently deleting a volunteer in error. There are safeguards in place to prevent me deleting a volunteer who has uploaded one or more records. Regards Allan Raymond Co-ordinators who have advised they DO NOT wish to receive advance notification. Ian Brooke Tony McHugh Debbie Valentine Linda Bailey Kevin Howell