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Graham Hart, one of the founder Trustees of FreeBMD received the award at Society of Genealogists AGM.
"The Trustees" were thrilled to accept this award which recognises the huge efforts made by all the FreeBMD volunteers, without whom there would be no FreeBMD.
For further information please see the Press release or item 8) from the Society of Genealogists 2007 AGM Minutes
The objective of FreeBMD is to give electronic access to the GRO index and its policy of transcribing exactly what is in the index aligns with this. It is also important in enabling FreeBMD to adopt a straightforward policy to transcription by implementing Type What You See (i.e. transcribers must not enter what they think it should be). However, it has been recognised for some time that there are instances where the index is obviously in error and transcribers have a method (#THEORY) to allow them to recording this. Searchers can also leave Postems for the same purpose.
However, if the error is such that the entry will not normally be found, #THEORY and Postems are not adequate so FreeBMD has now implemented System Entries These are entries introduced by FreeBMD administration which record what we believe should be in the index (but is not); they are linked to the actual entries in the index. An example is June 1882 Marriages where several entries with surname Lucas have been put in the index as Luby because the change of surname from Luby to Lucas has not been correctly recorded in the index.
(i) Changes to the upload routine making it much more reliable and fixing a couple of errors that affected a lot of transcribers (such as the "circular redirects" error).
(ii) Changes to the scan viewer with the introduction of the "ruler" which highlights the row being transcribed and auto-moves to the next row.
(iii) "Scan Tools" also added which allow a number of effects on the scan view such as changing the background/text colours (on Tiff format scans), rotating and flipping the scan, changing the brightness etc.
(iv) One vital change allows new format scans to be opened which version 4 didn't recognise.
(v) Inclusion of a summary window - a form which pops-up when a file is saved and summarises all the errors/warnings found in the file.
This is also an opportunity to place on record our thanks to Ian Brooke for his work on developing and bringing to fruition this latest version of WinBMD.
The district aliasing team has recently been doubled in size to enable them to consult the original scans for some of the remaining entries. Sometimes this results in them being able to create an alias without the transcriber being aware of our work, and sometimes they cannot read the entry either, and for a couple of hundred of the entries they will be submitting corrections to the transcribers through the Corrections Coordinator.
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