Genealogy Chat

Karen which part of Durham are you going to do? I am doing part of Darlington 1861. Ann

thats right Karen, what i did was right click on each icon and saved them to my documents,i've also got them on floppy too,just incase!! then i opened opened them with microsoft word(adobe reader would'nt do it)once i knew i'd got them o.k. i then opened a spreadsheet,then opened my documents,clicked on censdemo,and it came up,then i saved it,and did the same with the blank. try it,let me know if it helps. chris. p.s.when i'd got everything right,i also saved on a floppy.

Karen, you need to download the transcription soft ware, go to the freecens home page,on the left you will see TRANSRIPTIONS, underneath it says "software to do it",click on that,it will take you to TRANSCRIPTION SOFTWARE, click on sscens,then click on,download sscen specifications.hope this helps. chris.

karen snap!!! i hope i know wat im suppose be doing lol im completely baffled by it all:( susie

Tracy, when i downloaded it just came on to my p.c. and the shortcuts came up on screen, so i right clicked on each symble and clicked on:send too------------then clicked:my documents.try downloading again and see if they come up on screen. Chris.

im waiting for 1861 for dursley gloucester ive been told by bernadette to have a look at the transcribers site has anyone downloaded the genie and csvcheck,if so wat are they susie

Well I did save it else where, but it kept saying error and a message saying click yes for Floppy rive A or No for Floppy Drive B ... excuse me? How do I bypass that?! lol

ive just had a reply back from bernadette at freecen im going to be doing 1861 for gloucester im getting the golly wobbles now:( susie

Tracy, i saved mine in "my documents", and opened it with"microsoft word", it,s all jumbled up tho,so if you open a spreadsheet ,then open my documents,click on censdemo,it will open up o.k.do the same with the blank doc. hope that makes sense! hope it works for you, good luck, Chris.

Hi, Wanted to join transcibing, but cannot get to the software as it needed to go to floppy disk and my floppy HD is not working at all (been like this for 2 years) Are there another way to getting it before I emails Carol to offer my services?? Tracy

alright you lot...youve convinced me!! i will contact carol and add my name aswell... uuummmm.....could someone tell me how to use excel!!!! lol susie

April & Jeannette, your not alone,i only know the basics,but we can help each other. Chris.

Your not alone there April. I'm sure we'll get plenty of help from Carol and the folks on here though. Jeanette

Just added my name to the growing list. Hope there's lots of computer buffs out there, as i'm pretty useless in that dept, but am willing to give it a go. April.

It took mine about a week and a half to two weeks. Mine is from archive cd books, have sponsored a book from them and bought a CD before. Very good scanning.

how long before c.d. arrives? i'm raering to go !!!

I think that is good Ann. Everyone has different time to give. Looking at my other message I best keep a watch on my spelling when doing it!! I'm sure all of us can keep each other going on it too. Good luck.

Oh Jo I have been naughty I have had the disc for some months now and only got 27 pages done. But you lot have given me the incentive to discipline myself to a page a day and as Carol says we are volunteer's. So keep up the good work!! Ann

Hi Ann, have sent in my 6 pages and have made a couple of mistakes, left out hyphens and didnt put a code in where the house was unoccupied. I jusr try and do it when I can, but I think I am going to set some times when to do it. When it's quite BUT it isn't that often in our house! Where are you up to?

Wowee Jon That's good!!! Do you do a page a day and then are you still sending pages to Carol or are you at the stage when you will finish the disc and then send it to be checked?? Just curious Ann,Doing 1861 for Darlington