Genealogy Chat

rick you are a darling!!! im off to bed now but i'll be back tomorrow. ive just minimised my work and shall leave my pooter on all nite ok susie

Night Susie ! Will need to get it sorted well before the footie starts tomorrow though ! Won't be able to concentrate after that. You could always save it with a different name overnight for safety. Click File Save As and call it Monday or something ? Rick.

Transcrilbling LOL !! Bet they love you at freecen Karen. Rick.

Rick , transcribling transcribing, its the same isnt it? I am sure they will love us all for what we are doing, freecen and all the others who will use it in the future. And you for all your computer knowledge to help us out!

does anyone know if bernadette is on holiday? only i mailed her to let her know that i had recieved my cd and she didnt reply ive mailed her again to ask how i send the little bit ive done for her to check and still no reply susie

Susie All I have have done in the past is save to My Documents and the mail it to my Co-ordinator and that has worked but maybe some one else had a better way. Hope this helps Ann doing 1861 Darlington

thanks ann i'll try that and see if it works thankyou for your help:) susie

Hi Susie, Are you getting on OK ? Rick.

hiya rick i think ive made progress..lol ive done as you and karen instructed and it seems ok(touch wood)lol it looks like a pools coupon at the moment though,cos the writing is awful!! ive written what i think it says and then put a x in the next box.is this right:( susie

Yes, that's right - same with mine. Glad you managed to sort it out ! Rick.

rick thankyou so much for your help,i wouldnt have known what to do with out you and karen and ann youve all been great:) just one other question..lol do you use capitals at all for the surnames and counties also can we abreviate the county or are we suppose to write it in full if that is how its transcribed cos i thought i read somewhere that we have to write it exactly as the enumerator had written it susie

Hi Susie, Glad to be of help :-) They want you to put exactly what you can see as written by the enumerator, even if it looks wrong. The conversion program puts capital letters in the right place for names. The County column however must contain the three letter "Chapman" code for the county - there's a table of them in the SSCENS field descriptions notes. Rick.

rick thank goodness for that!!! ive used the chapman code for the counties and copied and pasted it from the web site i then printed it off lmao susie

Hi, just reading through, I was just wondering Susie if you have also downloaded Genie? That is really good to help you work out place names or where they are from.

hi jo no i havent, i will now though...lol some of the areas are so hard to read susie

jo silly me!!!! i have already downloaded it!!!! knew i should have cleaned me glasses...lol its staring me right in the face ,looking up at me from my desktop!!! susie

Susie, It is good. Some things I've thought it cant be that, but when you look at the Genie it comes up with it. Good luck, Jo

jo ive had a look and i agree ive also found the names of the districts that i didnt think it could be..lol ive just had an email from bernadette and she has told me to down load the programme csvchck has anyone else downloaded this she says i can check it myself susie

I've downloaded it but havent used it as yet! I sent my first 6 pages to my coordinator to check for me.

I havent where is it on the freecen page? I have always sent mine to Carol to check. Ann