Genealogy Chat

Just thought I'd say HI to everyone as I haven't seen this thread for a while. Hope the 'transcribbling' is going well! Ann - I haven't come across that yet. Please let us know the outcome. Jo - Good thinking. Wish I'd thought of that! lol When I was doing a bit yesterday I came across a young servant girl who gave her birthplace as Yorkshire, Dog Kennel! Made me feel quite sad. And while I'm here, my enumerator has devloped 2 very annoying habits. The fist one is that he puts the street name for the 1st house in the street then the ones that follow have no address. I've just been putting a hyphen in column G then a note in column Y. Also he hasn't been putting a marital status in for people under the age of 16. Again I've put a hyphen and a note in column Y. What would you do? Jeanette

Hi Jo et al Just had a reply form Carol and she said to put the letter u in the h column ie putting it down as uninhabited property. Yes Jo we had a lovely time it's a beautiful country Ann,Darlington

Hope you had a nice time in Italy Ann. When I'm not sure and need to ask I write down the number from the excel sheet and carry on. If I need to change it I can soon find it by the number. Well thats what I do but there might be better ideas.

Hi Jo Thanks that's what I thought but wondered if any one had come across it as didn't want to carry on to have to do it all again. Yes I'm well just been to Italy it was hectic but great! Hope you are well and not too busy Ann,Dalington

Got them! Hyphen was what I was looking for! I would think put a hyphen in each cell and x next to them and in Y write what the problem is.

Hi Ann, are you well? I haven't come across it but may be it was an empty house. I would have thought just putting , oh cant think of hand!, in the boxes and then in the the last column whats missing! If that makes sense! Will get my things out and have a look!

Hi all you transcriber's Have you come across a line with only the schedule no,house no and street but nothing else,waiting for Carol my co-ordinator to reply but wondered if any one else had come across it!! Regards Ann,1861 for Darlo

Oi ! You saying I need to lose weight ? lol Rick.

hi rick lol!!! i would give you a big hug but ive only got short arms lol susie

Hi June Freecen is a site like free bmd. It is trying to put on cesuses for free, done by transcribers. The site is http://freecen(.)rootsweb(.)com/ remove the ()

Heard it loud & clear thanks Susie *blushes*. Rick :-)

What is is this Freecen, how do I get it, does it cost me any thing,were do I purchase it from? as it got all the counties of the United Kindom,Ihave never heard of it before till I started to read threw the tips section,willsomeone let me know. June-Slavin-Cumming.

thats brilliant clare welcome aboard without the lovely people on this thread i would have given up before i started rick is fantastic ,so if you need any help he is the one lol i hope you heard that rick:):) susie

clare im not sure,but theres no harm in asking im doing 1861 so praps the other years are needing to be done as well susie

lol!!!! clare how did you guess i asked for uley but didnt realise that uley came under dursley!!! it covers nympfield coaley owlpen and uley not come across any rellies though,although there are some peglars that ive seen living in nymphfield ive sent you the addy susie

hi clare(cousin)lol that would be fantastic if you joined us!! if you go to the freecen website and click on transcribers it has everything you need to know there is a list of co-ordinators bernadette is the one for gloucester,as i am also doing gloucester,surprise surprise lol i will send you her e mail address if you like susie

Hi Susie ! Glad to hear things are going OK. How many pages are you up to now ? I'm on page 7 and the end seems a long, long way away ! You need to ask your coordinator how she wants your final file sent. They don't all say the same thing. Rick.

hiya jo and rick im doing ok i think:( ive done some checking my self and corrected it so i hope its gonna be ok lol im finding the writing a bit hard to read at times but just put a hyphen if im not sure lol when we have finished(a long way off yet) how do we send it off?? do we just send the floppy off to our co ordinator?/ susie

Well the coordinator was a bit headmistress-like, but I've now had it checked, corrected my original and done another page. Everyone else getting on OK ? Rick.

Is everyone getting on ok and CDs arrived? Think I can get back on with mine now.