I would like some advise please. For quite some time now I have been involved with transcribing parish registers and bishop's transcripts. The advise I was given in the beginning was to trascribe everything as is. (not the "s" which looks like "f" though. Consequently I have been writing Frances and February as they were originally written - ffrances and ffebruary. Now I am being told that I am putting in too many "f"s. So what do I do? Transcribe as it is written or leave off one of the "f"s? Regards..............Mary from Ottawa, Canada
Hello, I have been following the avalanche of answers in this thread, but (unless I have missed it by mistake) no one so far has mentioned the matter of who the transcription is being done for. (Mary, the original questioner, did not refer to this, nor did she say who had told her that she was 'putting in too many "f"s.') If it's purely for your personal use, then I would say that it is entirely up to you, though you would probably want to include notes, either as you go along, or at the end, giving details of how you have dealt with such matters as obsolete characters, or at the very least indicating whether you have transcribed using modern characters, or using, wherever possible, the same characters as used in the original document. On the other hand, if you are transcribing as part of a project, surely the project organiser(s) will have provided guidelines. (If not, then perhaps a good idea would be to contact them about the problem). Regards, David Lamb (Paignton, Devon, UK) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Seal" <mseal@sympatico.ca> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:37 PM Subject: [OEL] What do I do with that extra "f" > I would like some advise please. For quite some time now I have been involved with transcribing parish registers and bishop's transcripts. The advise I was given in the beginning was to trascribe everything as is. (not the "s" which looks like "f" though. Consequently I have been writing Frances and February as they were originally written - ffrances and ffebruary. Now I am being told that I am putting in too many "f"s. > > So what do I do? Transcribe as it is written or leave off one of the "f"s? > > Regards..............Mary from Ottawa, Canada > > ______________________________