----- Original Message ----- From: <MIDGE780@aol.com> To: <LONDON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: [Lon] Fwd: [SoG] More 1901 answers : : --part1_ca.8cff412.29d20aae_boundary : Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : : : : --part1_ca.8cff412.29d20aae_boundary : Content-Type: message/rfc822 : Content-Disposition: inline : : Return-Path: <SOG-UK-L-request@rootsweb.com> : Received: from rly-xg05.mx.aol.com (rly-xg05.mail.aol.com [172.20.115.202]) by air-xg04.mail.aol.com (v84.10) with ESMTP id MAILINXG43-0326121004; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:10:04 -0500 : Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.32]) by rly-xg05.mx.aol.com (v83.45) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXG52-0326120912; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:09:12 -0500 : Received: (from slist@localhost) : by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g2QH94a13563; : Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:09:04 -0700 : Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:09:04 -0700 : X-Original-Sender: Barney@tdrake.demon.co.uk Tue Mar 26 10:09:04 2002 : Message-ID: <r5nf$HAJ8Eo8EwPk@tdrake.demon.co.uk> : Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:35:53 +0000 : Old-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com : From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <Barney@tdrake.demon.co.uk> : MIME-Version: 1.0 : X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 <sCa1NIeg8E1xL0vVlaL12qtlJK> : Subject: [SoG] More 1901 answers : Resent-Message-ID: <9hIxQ.A.gTD.wsKo8@lists2.rootsweb.com> : To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com : Resent-From: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com : Reply-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com : X-Mailing-List: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/5052 : X-Loop: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com : Precedence: list : Resent-Sender: SOG-UK-L-request@rootsweb.com : Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : : When I pointed out to my MP that some of the 1901 census transcription : had been done by people on the Indian sub-continent, who did not have : English as a mother tongue and who had no experience of English place : names, occupations and personal names, he was frankly incredulous. I : suggested he put a parliamentary question on this. Here it is with the : reply... : : DL: "To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, : how much of the work to transcribe the 1901 census returns on to : computer was carried on outside the United Kingdom; and if she will make : a statement." : : Ms. Rosie Winterton (PS, Lord Chancellor's Dept):" QinetiQ Ltd appointed : Enterprise and Supply Services (ESS) to undertake the transcription of : the data from the 1901 Census returns. A proportion of this work was : sub-contracted by ESS after full competitive tendering to a commercial : data input company based in India and Sri Lanka (Hays Document : Management). The proportion of transcription work undertaken outside the : United Kingdom was 78%" : : Yes folks that really is seventy eight percent! : : Please feel free to post this message elsewhere if you want. : -- : Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake : : : --part1_ca.8cff412.29d20aae_boundary-- : : : ==== LONDON Mailing List ==== : The Middlesex Home page at Genuki: : http://www.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/ : : --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.343 / Virus Database: 190 - Release Date: 22/03/02