This query actually belongs to the Syndicates list. It was first raised by a Syndicate Co-ordinator (Keith Simpson) on the Syndicate list but somehow or other got a response via the Admin list and now the Discuss list. To clarify the position, NO volunteer is deleted or removed from the database if they have uploaded any files/records. Built in systems prevent such deletions of volunteers from the database. The deletion process only applies to a volunteers who have NOT uploaded any records to FreeBMD even though they have been registered on FreeBMD for 12 months or so. Inactivity on the part of a volunteer who has uploaded just 1 record will mean they will remain on the database. Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: Loraine <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 26 June 2004 16:38 Subject: Re: Deletion of Non Active Volunteers >Also posted to Discuss list,as this is where it should be > >As I frequently have 3 months between uploads myself, I think shortening the >time before transcribers are deleted from the database is something that >should not happen. We all take longer to do things sometimes. As I teach and >am busy marking and preparing lessons during term time I find most of my >transcribing is done in school holidays. I tend, therefore to have massive >uploads in those times and nothing much during term times. Occasionally, >depending on where I am working I get some transcribing done in term times. >I transcribe for 3 syndicates (to give myself a break and a change from >handwritten/typewritten entires), and my transcribing pattern would be the >same whether I worked for just one syndicate. Indeed it is easier sometimes >to dash off a page of handwritten entries, as they are only 40 names long, >than be faced with the somewhat daunting prospect of 375 names, typewritten >(Which may not always be easier to read than handwritten, depending on >quality of scan etc). If the rule was amended to 3 months I would be >continually struck off, then re-added. Much more administratively time >consuming. My co-ordinators know that I will do the job, but erratically and >they are happy with that. 12 months gives people the chance to recover from >crashed computers, broken limbs, hospitalisation etc and I feel it should >stay at this length of time. > >Loraine > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >