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
>