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No.16

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June 2009

Hello again,

Welcome to two new helpers this month, Janet and Alison. You'll notice that the range of flags in the team list has had to be extended;  Janet is as far away from Sussex as you can get on the UK mainland, and Alison is as far away as you can get and still be on the same planet. The Sussex influence is obviously not limited by geography!
We've delayed the Newsletter slightly this month in order to get in sync with FreeCEN's updates to the database. This means we can report four new pieces on line.  Thanks again to all those who had anything to do with transcribing , checking or validating 566 (Westham), 597 (Brighton St Peter), 619 (Yapton), or 624(Chichester), which are all available now to search for FREE.
Apologies to any of you in the UK who've had to go to the Post Office to collect your CD. We now realise that putting a piece of card into the envelope to protect the disc makes the packet thicker than 5mm and puts up the postal rate.  We'll try to find a better way!
So... back to the task, and "may all your images be legible"!

Simon and Chris

The Numbers

Pieces in the Sussex 1861 Census       73
Pieces that have survived                  72
Pieces on Line at FreeCen.org.uk        42 (38)
Percentage of population on line        58 (55)
Active Team Members                      26 (22)
Pieces being transcribed                   20  (18)
Pieces being checked                          6   (4)
Pieces waiting to be checked               4  (6)
(numbers in brackets show the situation last time we wrote)

Website
679(613) Visitors in the last month,
looking at 1340(1026) pages



Team

Who are the other people working with you to put the 1861
 on the web for free?

The Brits...
Eng In England
Brian
, Julie, Heather, Audrey, Simon and Chris, and Merlin, JohnA and June, all  in Sussex, Graham in Berkshire, Barry in Milton Keynes, Paul in Oxfordshire, Trevor in Wiltshire, Janet in Hampshire, Peter in Surrey, Jane in Huddersfield, and Keith in Kent.
scot In Scotland
Janet in Caithness
The Aussies
Steve in NSW,
and Trish in WA
The Americans                   
Karen in California, Phil in New Hampshire
The Canadians
Jennifer, Dave, Tom, all in BC, JohnC in Ontario, Elizabeth in Nova Scotia
NZ flag The Kiwi
Alison in Queenstown
spain In Spain
Lynda
sweden In Sweden
Lynne
Help and Advice
You know, of course that we are always happy to give advice or help with queries and problems at any stage, but there are also two helplines that are specially set up for FreeCEN volunteers.  If you haven't tried them yet it's well worth doing.

UK-CENSUS-HELPERS  puts you in touch with other transcribers checkers and coordinators, and is for "How do I...?" questions when the enumerator has done something a bit out of the ordinary.

UK-CENSUS-CHAT has recently been re-launched and is particularly for "I can't read this entry" queries.  Other members on the list often have access to clearer images and may be able to look up the entry and give you their opinion.  (If you do ask for help in this way remember to give the Piece number, Folio number and Page number if you want someone to find it.)

For either or both of these helplines you can subscribe by sending an email to UK-CENSUS-HELPERS-request@rootsweb.com
and/or UK-CENSUS-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com
Put the word subscribe in the subject and body of your email, with no additional text.

Try them both and see if you find them helpful - you can always unsubscribe if they aren't!

Don't forget you've also got the links below to give you reminders and advice. Two of our checkers have asked us this month to stress the eighth DON'T on the DOs and DON'Ts page.

Who lived here in 1861?

folkington rectory
Folkington Parsonage

In 1861 the Rector was 66yr old Henry Kelson.
Ann Randall and Lydia Lee were his cook and housemaid. 
Details can be found in piece 566, folio 12, page 17



The photo is copyright Simon Carey and appears on the geograph.org.uk website.
Happy Families

The latest find in our search for 1861 residents with suitable names

family
In Broadwater lived Mr James S Butcher, the... (wait for it...) Butcher 

(Thanks for that one, Karen, other contributions welcome)
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