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From: "T&K Brailsford" <>
Subject: Re: Brailsfords in the 1881 UK Census
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:48:19 +1000
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Hi everyone,
I'm forwarding Chris's questions and my replies to the list so everyone
knows my mistake, and can contribute to discussion!
Chris wrote....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Booth" <>
To: "Kerrie Brailsford" <>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:04 AM
Subject: Brailsfords in the 1881 UK Census


> Kerrie,
>
> I am sending you this off-list since I would like your ideas. I have no
> objection if you want to forward it to the list.
>
> Having volunteered to "transcribe" the Brailsfords in the 1881 census of
the
> Uk, I have hit two stumbling blocks.
>
> The first is what form is the data required in? (I could provide it as a
> straight list of names with all the data recorded on the census CDs, or by
> family, or by age (or year of birth), or ....). I can produce it as paper,
a
> Word 97 document, an Excel 97 spreadsheet, a text file, ... What do you
> want?
[Chris, my personal feeling is that the most useful way to present the data
is an excel spreadsheet. If a separate column is used for each field such as
address, christian name, year of birth, occupation, comments... the data can
then be sorted however the researcher sees fit... The only problem with that
is if a researcher doesn't have excel to be able to use it. But I think that
can be easily overcome, because it is easy to convert an excel document into
something else such as a word document or text file if required later. We
can easily cut/paste it if someone wants small amounts of info posted to the
list, or email as attachment to individuals wanting the whole amount. I have
little personal experience at transcribing, what does everyone else think?
[Kerrie]]

> The second problem is the number of entries. There are 1406 entries for
the
> name Brailsford in the 1881 UK census. The transcription will take a
little
> longer than I expected when I thought the number of entries was 300! (The
> improbable I can do tomorrow, the impossible takes a little longer!).
Still,
> I should have most of it transcribed within the next two or three weeks.
> However, it occurs to me that there may be a priority for certain counties
> in which case I could target these first.
[Chris, I'm sorry I misled you about the quantity of Brailsfords... I
thought I did a search of Brailsfords and came up with about 370??? (I
couldn't remember the exact amount, so said over 300). In hindsight, I may
have limited the search to Derby only. If this is too much for you, please
feel free to limit to certain counties. I know that most people are
interested in Derby at the moment, so that would be a great place to start.
Perhaps we could split the workload? Is there any way you can extract chunks
from your CD and zip them to email to me to transcribe? Otherwise I can get
printouts from my local LDS family centre to type up, but that wouldn't be
as convenient. I have cut and paste some info from the web about a couple of
areas... Wirksworth and Brampton mostly. I'll email that to you off list,
Chris. Does anyone else have any comments or suggestions? [Kerrie]]
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you
>
> Chris Booth
> (in Brailsford where the summer arrived yesterday - for three days at
> least!)
>
[Please feel free to email your ideas or queries on or off list everyone.
Thanks for all of your support Chris.
[Kerrie]]

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