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From: "Allan Raymond" <>
Subject: Deletion of Volunteers From FreeBMD
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:53:27 -0000

My regular reminder to Syndicate Co-ordinators about the ongoing process to
delete from the FreeBMD database those volunteers who haven't uploaded any
records even though they have been registered on FreeBMD for 12 months or
so.

Co-ordinators are now advised in advance of any volunteer to be deleted from
the database and given a nominal two weeks in which to respond.

Co-ordinators are requested to check their "Syndicate Maintenance" for
details of any volunteers deleted by me as explained in
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/delete_submitterID.html. The deleted volunteers
are shown at the bottom of the "Current Submitters" window of the Maintain
Syndicate page.

This will give Co-ordinators opportunity to reallocate any transcription
work given to the deleted volunteers.

As this is a two way exercise, I would highly recommend to all Co-ordinators
they check their "Upload Reports" via
http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/upload-report.pl in conjunction with "Show
file" at: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/show-file.pl to establish if long
standing allocations to their volunteers have been transcribed and uploaded
to FreeBMD. I have assumed this process to be part of the checking process
adopted by all Co-ordinators.

This check should identify volunteers who registered a while ago but have
not uploaded any files. This will prevent me inadvertently deleting a
volunteer in error. There are safeguards in the system to prevent me
deleting a volunteer who has uploaded one or more records.

Regards

Allan Raymond

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