Hi It may be worthwhile me mentioning that where a suspect file is listed with an entry "Pages outside range" this is highly likely to mean that either the event, year or quarter (or a combination of all three) are incorrect in the header details of the file. Where this occurs the file header details need to be corrected along with the corresponding file name. Regards Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 19 January 2005 19:18 Subject: Suspect files To Syndicate Co-ordinators The latest update (19/01/2005) of the Suspect Report at: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/SuspectFiles.html shows a big increase in the number of Suspect Files. This is due to a new enhancement to the Suspect Report criteria which now reports as suspect those files which contain a high percentage of lines (i.e. records) in which the page is outside the range expected for the district. Advance notification of this enhancement was given in my email to Co-ordinators on 15 January 2005. We are have now gone up to 76 Suspect Files and any help you can give in reducing this would be appreciated? Fifty two (52) of the files are due to the "Pages outside range" problem. Obviously nothing is foolproof and therefore any files which have been included in the Suspect Report in error should be reported via the link specified in the Suspect Report. It was pleasing to note that of three "Pages outside range" files which I checked earlier today, two had incorrect events in the file header details. The other twenty four (24) files in the latest Suspect Report are due to "Too many entries between +PAGE". The latter group of files are mainly transcribed from fiche rather than Scans and it makes it more difficult for me to do a hands on approach with helping to correct the files. Any help Co-ordinators can give regarding their volunteers who appear in the Suspect Report would be appreciated. Some Co-ordinators maybe waiting for me supply them with "Challenge" details for their volunteers to enable them to take over ownership of the volunteers File Management to correct Suspect Files. I hope to complete any outstanding requests later today. Thanks Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: Allan Raymond <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 07 January 2005 13:44 Subject: Re: Suspect files To Transcribers and Co-ordinators (an update to my email of 31 March 2004) Since 23 February 2003 and as part of the ongoing process of validating the data in FreeBMD we have been able to identify files uploaded to FreeBMD which for a variety of reasons are suspect. Transcribers and Co-ordinators are requested to check the Suspect Report page at: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/SuspectFiles.html at regular intervals to see if they have files listed. If so please follow the instructions at the head of that page. No action is required by volunteers if their files do not appear in the Suspect Report. I have been actively involved with the cooperation of others to eliminate all the suspect files. Particular thanks to Co-ordinators who have taken a proactive role in identifying and correcting suspect files uploaded by their volunteers. There were lots of suspects file way back on 23 February 2003 which was whittled down to about 400 by 8 Oct 2003. The number of suspect files was reduced down 31 as at 30 March 2004 and was going down on a daily basis. Refinements were made to the Suspect Report criteria which increased the number of suspect files to 88 as at 31 July 2004. Further refinements were made to the Suspect Report criteria which identified some files which unfortunately did not conform to our highly recommended naming convention and therefore weren't being picked up the Suspect Report. This refinement caused the number of suspect files to increase to 650 as at 1 October 2004 but was reduced to 286 by 6 October 2004. With a lot of work by Co-ordinators the number of suspect files has been reduced down 25 as at 5 January 2005. *** To be forewarned - the Suspect Report criteria will be continually modified to pick up more suspect files *** I monitor the number of suspect files on a daily basis and my aim is to get the list down to zero figures by the end of March 2005. Regards Alan Raymond ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== For those in -L mode, to unsubscribe from this mailing list please send the command UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message to - [email protected] ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx