Hello, It sounds as if you gentlemen must be excellent transcribers - I hope you have covered the areas I am interested in! Some work very hard to make information available to others. I know mistakes get made (it is much easier to recognise the familiar names in one's own family than those of strangers) but much effort is taken to keep these to a minimum. There is room for human error in a number of forms (misread script, typos and so on - and tiredness after a few hours of staring at old, often badly written and faded, records). Any researcher whose surname begins with oft confused letters like T and P is probably aware to keep any eye out for potential misspellings. Lists like the IGI are littered with mistakes, but for some of us they have allowed major breakthroughs that would have otherwise been impossible. They are secondary sources that must always be verified, and without which many would be wading through endless rolls of FHL film, etc. If your ancestor's only known location is, say, Posen, you may well need help from others. So from me, a little thank you to those people who have helped me locate records by selflessly devoting hours of time transcribing. Bronwyn Klimach. On 6/4/07, Herbert Teske <herb29@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Thanks, Stanley; I needed that. > Herb > > "Stanley M. Berkner" < smberkner@yahoo.com> wrote: > The same one who saw H. von Gagern and transcribed it as Hron Gagern. > Stan B. > --- Herbert Teske wrote: > > > I wonder who was able to get "Ferke" out of "Teske". > > > > More later. > > > > Herb > > > I am NOT old, I am chronologicaly advantaged! > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck > in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Good reminder, Bronwyn! I meant to send no disparaging remarks re the transcribers. Just trying to apply a little humor--which isn't always understood. Herb Bronwyn Klimach <bronklimach@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, It sounds as if you gentlemen must be excellent transcribers - I hope you have covered the areas I am interested in! Some work very hard to make information available to others. I know mistakes get made (it is much easier to recognise the familiar names in one's own family than those of strangers) but much effort is taken to keep these to a minimum. There is room for human error in a number of forms (misread script, typos and so on - and tiredness after a few hours of staring at old, often badly written and faded, records). Any researcher whose surname begins with oft confused letters like T and P is probably aware to keep any eye out for potential misspellings. Lists like the IGI are littered with mistakes, but for some of us they have allowed major breakthroughs that would have otherwise been impossible. They are secondary sources that must always be verified, and without which many would be wading through endless rolls of FHL film, etc. If your ancestor's only known location is, say, Posen, you may well need help from others. So from me, a little thank you to those people who have helped me locate records by selflessly devoting hours of time transcribing. Bronwyn Klimach. On 6/4/07, Herbert Teske wrote: > > Thanks, Stanley; I needed that. > Herb > > "Stanley M. Berkner" < smberkner@yahoo.com> wrote: > The same one who saw H. von Gagern and transcribed it as Hron Gagern. > Stan B. > --- Herbert Teske wrote: > > > I wonder who was able to get "Ferke" out of "Teske". > > > > More later. > > > > Herb > > > I am NOT old, I am chronologicaly advantaged! > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck > in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message