Derek It is purely academic. But your Syndicate did have a policy sometime ago of double keying within Syndicate, an example being 1894 marriages amongst others. This has not happened for a while and I would much prefer to park any further discussion regarding this particular aspect of Scan2 keying as nothing can be gained from it. Odd pages transcribed within a Syndicate is not deemed to be double keying per se. Regards Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: Derek C Hopkins <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 25 November 2004 16:57 Subject: Re: DO NOT Second Key Within The Same Syndicate Hi Allan and John There is no deliberate second keying in the same syndicate (i.e. Scan2 ) going on. Due to Reallocations Scan2 does have a number of pages that did and do get transcribed twice. Mostly because the first transcriber went AWOL and had not sent a copy to Scan2 the reallocation to the "Fill in the Holes" team generated the second copy. In the example below Nesta Rees is the person who got the page due to Peter going into the wild blue yonder on 2002-11-18 This is going to continue to happen randomly. It is not considered to be Double Keying. At 09:58 AM 25/11/2004, John Mellors wrote: >Allan there are occasions when double keying occurs and these can't be avoided >When a page has been allocated to a volunteer and that volunteer fails to >deliver in >a reasonable time span we reallocate the page. There are also occasions >where admin >mistakes on my part has resulted in a page (or pages) being allocated twice. > >The reissued page is produced and in due course the original volunteer >produces the >same page. Whilst this is not actually "double-keying" in terms of a >quarter it has the >same effect as a "double keyed" page within a syndicate. > >Take for example 1898 Births Qtr 1: >Page 55 & 56 >transcribed by John Mellors (John Pain Syndicate) >transcribed by Nesta Rees (Scan 2 Syndicate) >transcribed by Peter Monck (Scan 2 Syndicate) > >There are examples where a page has been double keyed by two people in our >syndicate. > >As the co-ordinator I am very loathe to tell a valued volunteer that they >have wasted >their time and to ask them not to upload (or to delete) the file they have >completed. > >While I accept that double keying (as a minimum) is required for basic >checking I >would have thought that triple (or even more) keying would help FreeBMD to >identify >potential errors in and help with the verification process of the data we >display. > >Best wishes >John Mellors > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Allan Raymond" ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> >To: ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] m> >Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:03 PM >Subject: DO NOT Second Key Within The Same Syndicate > > > I would like to advise all Syndicate Co-ordinators that second (double) > > keying of the Indexes must NOT take place within the same Syndicate. > > > > Any second keying of this nature should be stopped immediately. > > > > Whilst I undertake very regular checks on using Upload Reports which would > > identify to me double keying I can't be expected to police every action of > > Syndicates in this respect. > > > > The official policy is found > > > > at: > <http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/process.html>http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/proces s.html > > > > or > > > > via the Transcribers' Page > > > > at: > <http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml>http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex .shtml, > then scroll down to > > Co-ordinator Resources and click " > > Processes An overview of the steps that the project goes through to ensure > > data accuracy" > > > > I mention this should any Co-ordinator be a "little surprised that there is > > no link from the Transcribers' Page" > > > > Regards > > > > Allan Raymond > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== > > To find out about the FreeBMD project please start at > > <http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com>http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > > areas they lived. 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