These are the terms I like to use: COMPOSITE is a combination of articles related to the same subject. They may have been on the same page, but were under different headlines. CONDENSED means the length of the article has been shortened. EXTRACTION means just the straight-foward facts. Sometimes lean enough to sound stilted, certainly most extracted information wouldn't pass a grammer check. TRANSCRIPTION is intended to be an exact copy of the article, corrections and comments would be noted in brackets [ ]. The Latin abbreviation (sic) interprets as "this is correct" , although the information may not be factually correct but that is the way the writer presented or entered the information, and the transcriber didn't introduce any error. Sic is particularly used to refer to spelling differences. -----Original Message----- From: AnneTullar@aol.com <AnneTullar@aol.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, September 03, 2001 8:45 AM Subject: [PA-LAC] Newspaper Transcriptions >Thanks for making it possible for us to have easy access to the issues you >have/are transcribing. I'm looking for tips for my own next effort with the >Providence Register: I get what you are doing when you use the notation that >you have condensed an item, but what exactly do you mean when you note >"composite"? > >Re: July 19, 1889 Scranton Republic item about a new D&H railway station. > >Appreciatively, >Anne Tullar > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Visit the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society http://rootsweb.com/~panepgs/ >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >