Genealogy Chat

Are you still about Louisa? I can try and go through it with you. Have you down loaded all the info and printed it out?

hi louise is bernadette your co-ordinator by any chance i am doing gloucester and she is mine i have terrible trouble getting hold of her,and im still waiting for a reply to my 2 emails that i sent her last week grrrr

Louisa, just wondering how you are getting on?

jo just a quickie please if i cant make out the county and place of birth or the names of the people, do i put a hyphen the same as i do for the address? susie

Sussie, off hand I think you need to try and put a name even if its just the odd letter you can see if not then you need to put a hyphen, then a x in the column for it and write the problem in Y....Hope thats right

Jenny, freecen is a site that will have free census for people to view. There are some on at the moment. Some of us on here are transcribing for it. http://freecen(.)rootsweb(.)com

jo thanks:) i will do wat you say then only i put the odd letter and then a ?...lol but i will go and change them now,thats no big deal...lol thank goodness for this thread,its been so helpful susie

I just sent my first 5 pages off to my co-ordinator for checking. You can't do smug online can you :-) I did find CSVCHECK really useful in the end btw. Rick.

Hi Rick Thanks for the answer to my question about scanning documents earlier. Think you cracked it! Susie Yes hyphen is the default for forename and surname. Then an x in column k and something like ?forename in column Y. You know all the stuff that you downloaded at the beginning? I've got a printout from that that I keep next to me while I'm transcribing. I think it was in the FIELDS thing and is called SSCENS Field Descriptions. Hope this is of some use. Jeanette

Rick Is the checker easy to use even after you have done 45 pages?? Ann

Ann, You'll just get a lot more messages to sort through ! Especially if you've been doing the same thing over & over that sets it off. Like I said, a lot are just warnings & as long as you're happy you don't HAVE to correct them. Try it - you can always ignore what it says ! Rick.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.