I think I have seen something on this before, but cannot now find it. Has someone a definitive answer on transcribing a handwritten entry where neither district name nor number is present. The entry was 1902B40182 Fellingham, Owen See Dec 1929. A transcriber has had problems uploading a file where she inserted ? for the missing district field. I tried ?,? and had no problem getting a file accepted, though the series of warning boxes came up, of course. She, however, could not get a file accepted with ?,? at all and finally uploaded the file without the entry and edited it on the site under File Management. I know that *,* will work perfectly, though technically this would not be correct. Melda Brunette, Brunette Syndicate

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:37:50 +1200, you wrote: >I think I have seen something on this before, but cannot now find it. >Has someone a definitive answer on transcribing a handwritten entry >where neither district name nor number is present. > >The entry was 1902B40182 Fellingham, Owen See Dec 1929. > >A transcriber has had problems uploading a file where she inserted ? for >the missing district field. > >I tried ?,? and had no problem getting a file accepted, though the >series of warning boxes came up, of course. She, however, could not get >a file accepted with ?,? at all and finally uploaded the file without >the entry and edited it on the site under File Management. Is she using SpeedBMD? In SpeedBMD, it would be ?;? not ?,? -- Dave Mayall