Thanks for being a volunteer and taking the time to explain some of the problems. We out here have little idea about what goes on behind the scenes.I think we all do very much appreciate all that you folks do for the rest of us! Keep up the good work - PLEASE Liz Burdick in CO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Richart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:42 PM Subject: [MABERKSH] NEHGS MVR Pittsfield marriages 1880-1900 > Greetings to the Berkshire List, > > I went through the Pittsfield marriages between 1880 and 1900 that are > listed on the NEHGS' MVR 1841-1910 on-line database, but haven't had the > images connected to the entry. Although all entries for a few pages are > connected, most only have the first entry for Pittsfield done. If you > have > someone you are looking for and they are listed for one of these pages, > just > call up the volume and page number without the name and you can view the > image by clicking on the one entry that is linked. The remaining entries > will be connected as time permits. There are a bit over 100 Pittsfield > marriage entries for this time frame that require correction and I'll be > working on those also. > > There a still a number of pages where no image is available. I don't have > any information on when those images will be finished and loaded on the > server. The pages with images quality problems have already been reported > to > the webmaster and have been added to the re-do list. > > Sue Richart > NEHGS Volunteer > > 1882 334 60 bottom of page > chopped off > > 1882 334 61 Image quality > poor > > 1882 334 62 > > 1882 334 63 Image quality > poor > > 1882 334 64 > > 1882 334 65 Image quality > poor > > 1882 334 66 > > 1885 361 63 image quality > poor > > 1885 361 64 > > 1885 361 65 image quality > poor > > 1885 361 66 > > 1885 361 67 image quality > poor > > 1885 361 68 > > 1885 361 69 image quality > poor > > 1886 370 61 image quality > poor > > 1886 370 62 > > 1886 370 63 image quality > not > great > > 1886 370 64 > > 1886 370 65 image quality > poor > > > 1886 370 66 - 69 > 1889 397 66 - 71 > 1890 406 65 - 72 > 1894 442 91 - 98 > 1895 451 95 -99 > 1900 500 95 -99 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Liz, Thank you. The webmaster sends me spreadsheets for various town's entries. It doesn't work for the larger towns because Excel has size limitations. What I'm usually doing is going through all the entries for a small town and fixing them. This actually helps the larger towns too. With a small town, I can easily figure out what the specific problem is. If it is a column shift, I get the index page that's involved and fix everything on it. This fixes the larger towns' entries as well. I'm trying to do the littlest towns first. Usually all their entries for a year fit on one, maybe two pages. I started the Pittsfield marriages because of a specific request and the fact that I haven't fixed many of Berkshire County entries. Now, I'm not familiar with Berkshire County other than it is supposed to be beautiful. If any of the Berkshire listers have a small town in Massachusetts that they would like to help me fix, email me off-list. I won't be ready to start for awhile because I'm finishing up some others, but wouldn't mind having a list handy. What I do is request a town's entries on spreadsheet, go through correcting the entries, and then send someone the spreadsheet and have them go through the images to verify if all the names listed for a page are there and what names listed aren't there. This last check finds the name and town column shifts and some digitizing errors that aren't obvious looking just looking at the entries. Whomever is helping does have to have access already to the NEHGS on-line databases. I'm a paid subscriber just like everyone else. If you have been checking an entry and it continues to show "image not available" you can send me an email off-list and I will check to see if the image is on the server. About 6 of 10 are available, although there are folks that have totally struck out on their request. I do ask that you limit your request to no more than five entries, you put NEHGS and your name in the subject line, you don't send an attachment (I won't open the email), and you are willing to check the image to verify all the entries for the page if it is available. Please include the name, town, year, event (BMD), volume, and page number in your request. I won't do research for folks that don't have a subscription. There are any number of folks that are willing to do lookups, but only a few of us that actually repair the database. I do ask that folks who do lookups for others put the name, town, year, event, volume and page number if the likely entry shows "image not available". I watch this and all the Massachusetts county lists for just that kind of comment and will check if the image is available. Best of luck and I hope Spring is coming your way. Sincerely, Sue Richart After a rough winter, enjoying Spring-like weather in the foothills of the Huckleberry Mountains of Northeastern Washington State On 3/14/07, > Thanks for being a volunteer and taking the time to explain some of the > problems. > > > Liz Burdick in CO > >