Genealogy Chat

Thanxs Mavis & Jane Right I will have to go and have a look and see if I can make ANY sense of it at all lol Thanxs again Lesley :~)

glad you're getting on ok with it......... if there is a name / place you're not sure of, as a general rule use _ in place of one letter, and * in place of several letters. and if you think for eg, its an l or t, use [lt] or maybe c or another letter, then use [c_] in the middle of the word where you are not sure of. hope that makes sense, and keep up the good work !! Jane x

Lesley No just put a * for the whole word. Mavis

TED Yes I agree its a bit hard on the eyes but I just zoom in on any odd spellings and try and work it out that way.. Im having great fun doing it and do quite a few pages at a time when I start.... Hope you manage to save up enough cash to get yourself a bigger monitor.... that for me is at the bottom of my ''Things I need'' list so It will have to wait and I will just have to stare harder at the screen lol Lesley :~)

Mavis Do I just put in the letters I can read and a * for what I cant read then is that what they told you? Lesley :~)

lesley, hi, its quite easy, in fact very, onceyou get used to it, but unless you have a decent size monitor its really bad on the eyes and you need to take lots of time away from the screen. It also gets very monotonous. Ive been doing the Births for LPOOL but like I said the monitor with my pc is a 15 inch old fashioned thing, and until I get at 17inch at least ive had to give it a rest, making my eyes very tired. Saything that, its well worth doing it, because without the volunteers there wouldnt be much on the internet to tempt family research, god bless them all. TED. hoping to get something sorted next week, once ive save up the cash.

I sent a similar query to in just after I started, I thought I could read every letter, but they didn't spell anything at all like a name and was told just put * Mavis Going to see if I can find 'top of the cops' now.

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HI ANYONE I Have another Problem.....can any1 help please? On a transcription I have the surname and then 3 names in the Forename column....Frederick William and the 3rd name is barely readable...it looks like ?O?A?D I cant tell how many letters are between the readable ones what do I type? If any one is actually with Freebmd Scan2 can you take a look for me please and see if you can read it for me.... Pm here and I will give you my info to my file in question.... Thanxs Lesley :~)

lmao Sylvia Its not just work it affects lol....Housework...Kids....Pets...garden...Eating...Sleeping....lmao I am so glad I started this thread and I plucked up courage to start....if only everyone realised how easy it is to do it would get completed so much quicker.....even if they only did a page a night....although I find it too addictive to just do 1 Page lol Have fun....chat to you later...NOW get back to doing some work lol Lesley :~)

hi Lesley I'm in work at the moment..but just a quick line...i couldnt resist starting last night although it was a bit late i nearly finished the first page..........but i will definitely be at it this evening sylvia:-) see its starting to affect my work.....lol speak laterxx

Wendy Well Done YEAhhhhhhh :~)))) Yep it is very addictive when you start just like GR is lol Its nice to have a break from your own tree for a while and do the transcribing :~) Although Now I have another reason to not do any more housework not as if I was doing much anyway since joining GR lmao Have fun Lesley :~)

MAVIS Make sure you are on Freebmd Scan2 Syndicate HomePage. then On Main Menu thats on the left side of page...click on Project Graphs....at the bottom of that page you will see a scroll line starting with Front Page...Births(1) Births(2) etc Infront of Front Page are arrows click on the 2 little arrows on the right and this scrolls it along ...at the bottom on the right you will see Ranking...Click on that and then look through the list and see where you are if your there yet...I am 19 in top 100 for last 7 days and 88 in top 100 for last 56 days....WOOHOO me lol Hope this makes sense let me know if you dont understand me.. Lesley :~)

Sylvia How are you doing? have you started your page yet? Let me know... Lesley :~)

Hi ALL Glad you all decided to follow me into this Freebmd stuff lol Lesley :~)

Have just successfully uploaded my first transcribed page. Great feeling! Now I have another one to do. I think I am going to get addicted to this just as I am to Geneology. Wendy

OK Lesley, You started all this, so where does one find where you are in the 'top of the cops' (short for copiests ..... it was the best I could do:-!). Thanks again for giving me another reason to ignore housework. Mavis

have done it ............thanks lesley and goodnight..xx

Im logging off now Good luck Sylvia let us know how you get on Goodnight Lesley :~)

Sylvia If you look on your members page then look at your open assignments list. The first column is what info it is eg your first one is 58 = Year 1858 b = Births 1 = !st Quarter (march) T = Surnames First letter 0099 = Page number or Batch Number. On the left hand side of the screen is a Main Menu screen click on Help Menu then click on No.30 in list training instructions for Scan2 and Print it off...it is 6 pages long but worth while printing then you can look at it anytime for reference... Lesley :~)