Transcription Questions

[Jo Simpsons]

I have done Free BMD, CEN and REG, and all, as it really should be, should be transcribed as you see. We all can see things that is or isn't too
May be add to the notes section if you are unsure?
Anything you're unsure of, I think all apply to this but not certain, then _ for a single letter or * for more letters.
Sure Dave will tell me if I'm wrong! LOL.
Searching too you can use 3 letters and * and that will bring it up if your searches aren't getting you anywhere.
Good luck with your transcriptions, it is more than worth while. Good on you for doing it
Jo

[Kirk Dawson]

The Q&A does indeed contain the current guidance on the issue of forename abbreviations. (I suspect it will never be the last) It reads:

"3.11 Issue: Abbreviations: How do I record an abbreviation? The website seems confused on this matter.
Response: With abbreviations we normally adopt the usual rule of transcription, i.e. type what so see, with a couple of modifications. Transcribe as it was written. i.e. Robt. or Will or Will or Guilliam. Deviations are a) We do not normally superscript characters, so Saml, where the l is a superscript, would be entered as Samuel b) If there is an abbreviation character used, usually the horizontal bar across part of the name (see the example for Robert on the website) in this case we insert the missing characters directly. (We cannot use the standard approach of Rob[rt]t because the [] are used in the Uncertain Character Format. c) Any non standard abbreviation are entered in full."

The FAQ tips for searching page will be updated at the next cycle to be consistent with this guidance.

Thank you for pointing out the inconsistency.

[Kirk Dawson]

Searching too you can use 3 letters and * and that will bring it up if your searches aren't getting you anywhere.
Jo

Unfortunately Jo FreeREG has not yet implemented the wild character search capability.

Doing what you suggest will actually search for those 3 letters and the *. I strongly suspect there would be no results to the search.

[Jo Simpsons]

Oh really Kirk, I didn't know that. I shall have to study more closely in future. Thanks for correcting me.
Jo

[louiser]

Just started transcribing onto winreg. Just wondered how we entered alias's? eg Richard Jacob alias Begins. any help would be appreciated.

[jespa]

I Enter twice, once under each name and then an entry in notes.

Notes: JACOB alias BEGINS
BEGINS alias JACOB

[Kirk Dawson]

Just started transcribing onto winreg. Just wondered how we entered alias's? eg Richard Jacob alias Begins. any help would be appreciated.

This and many other questions are answered on the Transcriber questions page at http://www.freereg.org.uk/howto/taq.htm

[louiser]

many thank u's.

have a great one where blah blah alias blah married blah blah alias blah. guess this will be 4 records!

[jespa]

Louiser, not all alias have to be entered. Now that freeREG has soundex I find that I only have to enter some once with an entry in notes for the others and soundex does the rest.
Just remember soundex isn’t foolproof and if in doubt enter twice or however many times you need.

[Grandadron]

I am entering data for marriages from phillimores. The parish that i am doing has several entries where the year is shown as a blank. In most cases there are several years between entries. How do i enter the event?
On a previous parish when the last digit was blank ie 156? i entered * but it came up as an error when i tried to upload to the server.

Any help appreciated

Ron