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Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	Marion	Report	18 Mar 2004 22:31
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 164 Send Message	I've just started transcribing for freebmd and realise now how difficult it can be to read even typed pages. Those old fashioned typists obviously never cleaned their typewriter keys as some characters are just blobs!!! Never, Never again will I moan about something being transcribed wrong.
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 3,439 Send Message	Geoff	Report	18 Mar 2004 22:50
	Yes, there should be a rule that you can't look at FreeBMD till you've transcribed a few pages - that'd shut 'em up.
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Rebecca	Report	19 Mar 2004 10:45
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Here, here! I started transcribing a couple of months ago, and have found it hardest to work out the numbers for pages. on the other hand isn`t it great when you see something you transcribed on the site, knowing it might just be the reference someone has been searching for for ages? (Many thanks to the transcriber who did births 1879 June quarter A surnames!). Rebecca :-)
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 2,155 Send Message	SueinKent	Report	19 Mar 2004 16:02
	I have been looking for my Nan's birth for ages, and yesteday I found it, thanks to whoever transcried 1894 births Dec qtr F surnames, you will never know how grateful I am to you. Sue