Genealogy Chat

I'm agood few pages throgh my census now but I wasn't able to find my enumeration district atthe start so have left this blank. What should it look like?

Hi Diane, did you get your CD from the co-ordinator? I would have thought to start from the page you come to after the example pages. If you can't see it I wouldn't worry at all, you can only put what you can see! If the page numbers are missing you can work back from one you can see but put a note in to say that. I would have thoght if the whole page is bad then you could may be see how many entries are there and just put a note for the whole page that you couldnt read it. Dont worry, I was passed myself when I sent my first few pages in and went over and over it again. I still had made a couple of mistakes but was reassured not to worry and while I was checking over it all I could have done a few more pages!! LOL. Good luck on Monday, hope you enjoy what you have to do at the weekend! LOL. Best of wishes, Jo

Hi Jo, Thanks for the info. I'm hoping to start monday for proper. I have something else I have to do this weekend. If I say I'm doing Colchester then, should I just start at the piece that begins Colchester. I was a bit worried as some of it is so bad. Cheers Diane

Thanks Karen but I only added the message! We are all doing the hard work and there are others too, working hard, who are double checking and putting it all up for us to see!!!!!!!!

Karen, You can still carry on on your census. If there is anything wrong Carol will let you know and all you do is correct the lines she tells you. You are doing brilliant!

Karen you need to send it as an attahment to the email. Start an email to Carol and then click insert then pick file attachment, then the census that you have done. Carol will go through it and reply to you. Sorry if I've told you about attachments that youknew, it was just incase!

Hi Susie, Hope your CD arrives soon. I think sometimes you just need a little back up when you are doing it, it isn't really complicated (?!) but when you are first starting it's nice to be able to check it out with other opinions. I think the co-ordinators will be inundated sorting out CDs and checking the first few pages of transcriptions, I thought simple things we could try and sort out ourselves. Good luck when yours comes, Jo

Diane, I think you need to start at the begining of the CD and plod your way through it that way. If you cant read it you put an x in the cell next to it, at the end of the row, column Y, there is space tp put the problem or query and that makes the checker aware there is a problem.. I will check with Carol Barber if you like and post back up?

hi jo i think thats a great idea im going to be doing dursley gloucester 1861 my disc hasnt arrived yet but when it does im sure i'll need help...lol we can all stick together and help each other susie

Great idea, haven't started yet but have been going throught the Essex 1861 trying to pick an area to do. How much do you pick, some of it isn't at all readable and I am worrying a bit just how much of it I will be successful transcribing. I was going to start with the Colchester workhouse. Cheers Diane

If your'e stuck I'm sure we can all try to help each other........