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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)

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

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

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.