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earley-bird
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I am ready for something...but I don't know what!
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Has anyone else had any experience with transcribing for freecen ?
What a absolute fiasco my experience has been,
I offered back in January to be a co-ordinator and transcribe and 2 months later and numerous fruitless emails later it seems that someone called Dave? still hasn't bothered to order the fisches !
A lovely person called Brenda has worked her butt off trying to get things moving but it seems we have to wait untill Dave is good and ready and has the necessary form in the right font and colour and format and thickness blahdeblah
sorry to vent my splene but ooooh I'm angry >:(2 precious months wasted
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Earley, Holborn London
Bruce, London
Kangeisser London
Lawlor, Widnes Lancashire
Hagan Widnes Lancashire
Whitchurch, Westminster
Cooper, Westminster
All Census Lookups are are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only, I support copyright, a Wife, 2x children a dobie, 3 x cats, a Tawny owl. and several mice if the droppings in the kitchen are anything to go by...............damnlazycats!
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D ap D
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Posts: 1133
Stuck with John Jones in Wales? Join the club!
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Sorry to hear about your bad experience with FreeCen. My experience has been excellent.
I haven't the time to be a coordinator, and that job for the counties I'm interested in has gone anyway. The coordinator for Flintshire and Denbighshire couldn't be better - we keep in constant email contact, as she lives in New Zealand. She has even organised a web site to keep up to date on progress:
http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/na.mckenzie/flintshire.html
There are still a couple of Welsh counties without a coordinator, so I'm sure if you offered ......... 
D.
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Stuck with: William Williams of Llanllyfni John Jones in Llanelli Evan Evans in Caio David Davies of Llansanffraid Evans: Caio/Carms Jones: CDG, DEN Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, or any other tongue, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of the great reckoning before the Most High Judge, answer for this corner of the earth": The Old Man of Pencader to Henry II |
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Linda_J
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Hi all
I have an interest in Breconshire and noticed that there is no coordinator yet. I did think about offering but as I am in Kent I know very little about the area.
I wonder what the general view is of coordinators living miles from the area.
Linda
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Dove - Maidstone Kent Ralph - Relf - Cranbrook Kent Cottrell - Barcombe Sussex Ecclestone - Norfolk and Suffolk Gooch - Norfolk Burgess - Sussex and Hampshire Stanton - Breconshire Other names; French, Beale, Higgins (all Kent) Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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earley-bird
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I am ready for something...but I don't know what!
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Hi Linda
I don't think it matters at all you are not in the area. You are only transcribing from Fiche or CDs on your home PC so you need know nothing about the area at all as far as I can see.
I am co-ordinating Prescot lancs but live in Somerset.
I would go ahead and volunteer before someone else does especially if you have an interest in the area.
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Earley, Holborn London
Bruce, London
Kangeisser London
Lawlor, Widnes Lancashire
Hagan Widnes Lancashire
Whitchurch, Westminster
Cooper, Westminster
All Census Lookups are are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only, I support copyright, a Wife, 2x children a dobie, 3 x cats, a Tawny owl. and several mice if the droppings in the kitchen are anything to go by...............damnlazycats!
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Linda_J
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I will email and offer
Linda
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Dove - Maidstone Kent Ralph - Relf - Cranbrook Kent Cottrell - Barcombe Sussex Ecclestone - Norfolk and Suffolk Gooch - Norfolk Burgess - Sussex and Hampshire Stanton - Breconshire Other names; French, Beale, Higgins (all Kent) Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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D ap D
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Stuck with John Jones in Wales? Join the club!
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Linda, as I mentioned in my msg, the coordinator for Flintshire and Denbighshire lives in New Zealand, so you couldn't really get much further away than that.
I'm pretty sure they will be more than happy to have people volunteering to be coordinators, so distance shouldn't be too much of a disadvantage.
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Stuck with: William Williams of Llanllyfni John Jones in Llanelli Evan Evans in Caio David Davies of Llansanffraid Evans: Caio/Carms Jones: CDG, DEN Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, or any other tongue, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of the great reckoning before the Most High Judge, answer for this corner of the earth": The Old Man of Pencader to Henry II |
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