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thanks for all your hard work.  I
was wondering how the information made it from the films to the data we see on
the Internet.  I sometimes get
impatient that I can’t find the names I want online, totally forgetting that
there’s some poor soul going through stacks of films, such as yourself, deciphering
names, and entering data.

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thanks, thanks!!!!

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From: zendean
[mailto:usa20@...]

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005
5:48 PM

To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: % of
Films Transcribed to IGI

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face="Courier New">Victor;  I don't know the percentages. I know that I have a
stack of 2,500
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names that must be reviewed for posting and I am still working on the
film..

I think that there are others who still are working on a film for the

postings. I wish I had a book with just names to use as a reference !

    After I finish there is a review of those that I've done
soas to be sure

that the names i have cleared are then reviewed for correctness. 
Those that

still can not be read are reviewed and later posted to Salt Lake. Some I
can

clearly read but have never seen such a name before.

    Yes, you are correct, there are new names being cleared
everyday and

sent for posting.  I am working on a the baptisms for a church in
South

American from 1890-1895.  Others are extracting names from films in
other

countries and locations.  It takes a long time because I want it to be


correct and hopw someone somewhere is extracting the line I am waiting to

see.



Jose Macias

----- Original Message -----

From: "Victor Villarreal" <vela_este@...>

To: <ranchos@yahoogroups.com>

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:51 AM

Subject: [ranchos] Re: % of Films Transcribed to IGI









Hello Jose,



Thanks for your message and for your magnificent work.  I suppose

there are many more volunteers like you.  The work you have done

ís

outstanding, to say the least!



So, if I understand correctly, even for those batch numbers that are

already published on the IGI database, is it possible that you might

have skipped one or more of those illegible entries?  How frequently

are you faced with a situation like this?



Well, that means that even if we haven't found a particular record on

the IGI there's still hope that we could find it in the microfilm

itself.  And that goes also for the records in those microfilms that

haven't been captured yet, of course.



Anyway, back to the original question.  Do you have an idea, just an

approximation about the percentage of films that have already been

transcribed to the IGI?



Thanks again!



Victor



--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "zendean" <usa20@e...>
wrote:

> Joseph;  Yes, I am one of the those volunteers that

does "extraction" from the films for posting. It takes a long
time

because I can't do it full time and there are names that I come

across that I have never seen before and have no clue as to what they

are. Especially the Indian names and the ancient fathers spelled

names as they sounded.  Two different fathers will spell a name

different for the same person - baptism and later marriage.  Maybe we

haven't gotten to the records in question yet. It is a slow process.

>

> Jose

>   ----- Original Message -----

>   From: Joseph Puentes

>   To: esteban vela ; LosRanchos

>   Cc: Jonathan Walker

>   Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:58 PM

>   Subject: [ranchos] % of Films Transcribed to IGI

>

>

>   Well I'm thinking about it and I'm taking this discussion
to the

group. . .

>

>   oh absolutely I understand what you are asking now. Yes
yes it

takes volunteers to transscribe the info off of the films to then

input into the IGI and other databases. When it comes down to it I'm

sure that only a very small % of the films available are online. If

you want Valpariso maybe you should call SLC and ask them about

it. . .hey maybe you could be one of the volunteer transcribers

though it would take an enormous amount of time. I'm going to forward

this conversation to Jonathan Walker to see if he might care to

comment.

>

>   Jonathan what % of the films would you guess are on the
IGI? This

discussion started because we couldn't find any info on those PDF

files for Valparaiso.

>

>   Jonathan. . .Do you know if there is a list of films on

microfiche available for Mexico but not necessarily transcribed onto

the IGI?

>

>   thanks,

>

>   joseph

>















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All!  I can attest to the fact that
not all film is on the IGI.  I was
looking for the birth record of my maternal grandmother who was born in Sierra
Mojada, Coahuila and it wasn’t on the IGI but I went and ordered the microfilm
and found her – and found that she had a twin brother!!!! I thought, though,
that this was a standard thing and not to take the IGI data, or lack thereof,
to heart and to keep looking. 

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Delgado

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From: Victor Villarreal
[mailto:vela_este@...]

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005
11:51 AM

To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [ranchos] Re: % of Films
Transcribed to IGI

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Hello Jose,



Thanks for your message and for your magnificent work.  I suppose

there are many more volunteers like you.  The work you have done

ís

outstanding, to say the least!



So, if I understand correctly, even for those batch numbers that are

already published on the IGI database, is it possible that you might

have skipped one or more of those illegible entries?  How frequently

are you faced with a situation like this?



Well, that means that even if we haven't found a particular record on

the IGI there's still hope that we could find it in the microfilm

itself.  And that goes also for the records in those microfilms that

haven't been captured yet, of course.



Anyway, back to the original question.  Do you have an idea, just an

approximation about the percentage of films that have already been

transcribed to the IGI?



Thanks again!



Victor



--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "zendean" <usa20@e...>
wrote:

> Joseph;  Yes, I am one of the those volunteers that

does "extraction" from the films for posting. It takes a long
time

because I can't do it full time and there are names that I come

across that I have never seen before and have no clue as to what they

are. Especially the Indian names and the ancient fathers spelled

names as they sounded.  Two different fathers will spell a name

different for the same person - baptism and later marriage.  Maybe we

haven't gotten to the records in question yet. It is a slow process.

>

> Jose

>   ----- Original Message -----

>   From: Joseph Puentes

>   To: esteban vela ; LosRanchos

>   Cc: Jonathan Walker

>   Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:58 PM

>   Subject: [ranchos] % of Films Transcribed to IGI

>

>

>   Well I'm thinking about it and I'm taking this discussion
to the

group. . .

>

>   oh absolutely I understand what you are asking now. Yes
yes it

takes volunteers to transscribe the info off of the films to then

input into the IGI and other databases. When it comes down to it I'm

sure that only a very small % of the films available are online. If

you want Valpariso maybe you should call SLC and ask them about

it. . .hey maybe you could be one of the volunteer transcribers

though it would take an enormous amount of time. I'm going to forward

this conversation to Jonathan Walker to see if he might care to

comment.

>

>   Jonathan what % of the films would you guess are on the
IGI? This

discussion started because we couldn't find any info on those PDF

files for Valparaiso.

>

>   Jonathan. . .Do you know if there is a list of films on

microfiche available for Mexico but not necessarily transcribed onto

the IGI?

>

>   thanks,

>

>   joseph

>












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