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From: "John Slann" <>
Subject: Re: Query on 1865 Deaths June
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:16:52 -0000
References: <3F66BB5AC5E4D511B23C00902746C443023C53F7@WWMESSD207>


Dear Barrie,

Thanks for this info, there is no doubt that 1865 Deaths June do not have
any dates of death shown

And you are in part right about SpeedBMD when you said "Having tried out
SpeedBMD (after many moons!) it appears to insist on an AAD entry from
March 1865 onward but if you tab through AAD it automatically puts in a ?
which is correct if a field should be present but isn't there." It will
ONLY work if you enter a ? in the AAD column with the first line of data.
The crux of the matter is that you use a ? when data is missing. This would
apply to a single field with a gap in a column, here there is no columns for
AAD ergo no data is missing. We haven't tried uploading yet!!

Cheers

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Archer Barrie" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:42 AM
Subject: RE: Query on 1865 Deaths June


> According to the constants in the system AAD starts in March 1866 and as
> far
> as I can determine this is correcct.
>
> Having tried out SpeedBMD (after many moons!) it appears to insist on an
> AAD
> entry from March 1865 onward but if you tab through AAD it automatically
> puts in a ? which is correct if a field should be present but isn't there.
> Is the issue therefore that the upload is rejecting such entries?
>
> Barrie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Slann [mailto:]
> Sent: 26 February 2005 12:24
> To:
> Subject: Query on 1865 Deaths June
>
> One of my transcribers is using SpeedBMD to transcribe scans of this
> handwritten series which have no date at death. When the header is
> created
> the volume number format defaults to 9z and cannot be overwritten. Using
> 9z
> results in SpeedBMD expecting a date at death, and it is not possible to
> tab
> through this field. Is there a way around this other than using WinBMD?
>
> John
>
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