Suspect files

The following files have failed one or more checks on the file designed to identify possible problems in transcriptions. The particular check is given beside each file. However, these checks are based on average or normal attributes of a transcription, therefore if your file is listed here and you believe it is a correct transcription (i.e. compliant with FreeBMD rules) or you do not understand the issue please mail

with details. Otherwise, would you either change the filename and/or the contents. This can be done by going to File Maintenance and using Rename, Replace or View/Edit. If your syndicate has specific rules about filenames and/or changing files you should discuss any change with your coordinator first. An explanation of the problems is at the bottom of the page.

To view a file click on the user/filename with the mouse (or other pointing device) whilst holding down the shift key (shift+click), ctrl+click to attempt to find the scan and shift+ctrl+click to predict year/event/quarter from volume/page values in the file.

Links to files for particular syndicates can be found here.

This list was created on 10/04/2024 at 02:00:02. It is produced approximately weekly but some problems are only evaluated at the database update (the problems concerned are identified in Explanation of problems).

User/Filename	Syndicate(s)	Problem

Explanation of problems

Too many entries between +PAGE	There should be a +PAGE at the start of each page of the index but there are more lines between +PAGE lines than would normally be on a page of the index
Possible alternative name (alias/or)	A name in the file contains the characters ' alias ' or ' or ' indicating an alternative name that should be transcribed as two entries. See here for details.
Surname in given name	There is a comma in the surname which may be a mistranscribedfullstop.

Syndicate Links

Ian Brooke	Christie/1993BD0371, oldjoe72/1993BC0210, sandy175/1993BD0006
Western Oz Synd	Tony_Williams/1891M3G0107

Distribution of Page Sizes

Entries per page	Number of occurrences
<50	4239762
<100	124198
<150	507564
<200	703207
<250	14949
<300	146
<350	289
>=350	384352

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