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From: "Sheelagh Hawkins" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Re: BMD
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:19:11 +0100
References: <010d01c25456$7c0024a0$3ca61f3e@dan>


If a person has submitted a one name study, then they have the option of
keeping their e mail visible to members of the public. I would assume that
most of these contributors take up this option - however as there is not an
address at the side of the entry you are interested in, then it is safe to
assume that it has been transcribed by someone working from indexes. It is
purely because of the volume of mail that transcribers were receiving from
people hoping they could supply further info that the system was changed to
give anonymity.
regards
Sheelagh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Smith" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:03 PM
Subject: [ENG-LIV] Re: BMD


> Ray says "Cecilia was right,
> As one of the transcribers myself I know that we are only "copying" in
the data that is sent to us".
>
> As I said earlier, Cecilia is correct in most cases. I have, however, been
in contact with people who have uploaded entire one name databases to
freeBMD, which covered - say - all of the births from 1837 to 1983 for that
particular surname. They didn't get sent that index by a syndicate
coordinator, they had already collected the indexes over a period of years,
and "volunteered" it to the project.
>
> Duncan
>
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