Re: . . . . shire The Bradshaw Clan in England
Originally Posted by
Lynne55
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I do some transcribing for LANOPC.(Lancashire Online Parish Clerk) Have been doing it for about 5 years now. Its fascinating stuff. I do mainly Liverpool & also mentor the newbies who want to do Liverpool. I've done probably tens of thousands of records now - I wish I had kept count
Some of the writing is horrendous especially the witness signitures on Marriage records where they were nearly illiterate.
I love doing it though
Hi Lynne55. . .
It's addicting isn't it? The good addiction.
I did join last night. I was one of the arbitrators when I left and I was gone so long that I have to start all over. But that's A-okay.
On Family Search, they keep the points for you. Points are each batch you do. When you submit, your data is on the right side of the page where you download more.
I find the ships logs were pretty much hard to read.
I was really upset when there was not more to do on the England area. I did see last night that there are a whole lot now. I'm excited about that. But at this time, I'm working on the California batches. I want to see if any of my people are in it.
The England batches had sent me to study the English handwriting from centuries back up to the 1800's I think it was. Facinating.
Yes. . . I remember the marriage batches. You're right on that! And you have to look all over to see if the name is spelt correctly. LOL
I had a talk with one of the Sisters of the church. She wanted to know why I was so fussy.
I told her that my mother's name on her birth record is spelt Beverl
ey, not Beverly. So many people do not have the same spelling of their names as another does. Especially these days.
With the last names, when the program does not want to accept the spelling that is on the certificate, I go on the web and try to find out if there are in fact surnames with that spelling. And usually there are.
Okay. . . I just wrote you a book, lol, sorry.
I could just go on and on.