Thanks Christine,
No word on the missing pages yet but I have asked for them to be sent as
individual images. If you can make each missing page an individual small Excel
file then we can reincorporate them later. (With my database I just have to
drop individual files onto it and it incorporates and sorts them in year date
order automatically so that side is very simple.)
Hopefully we’ll have yet another volume in a week or ten days too. I’ve
suggested that he just scans a year at a time and then uploads but left the
decision to him. Later volumes only contain two years each as standard.
Chris
Chris Shepheard
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From: heraldnegindex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <heraldnegindex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Christine Callow
Sent: 08 January 2021 18:06
To: heraldnegindex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [heraldnegindex] Re: Good news - two further index books have arrived
Hi Chris, that’s good news. I am currently half way through 1959. As far as I
know, 1960 and 1961 are being done (unless you know differently).
I need the missing pages from 1955 so I can finish that year and upload it. I
think I have mentioned that although I have uploaded 1957, there are gaps where
some pages were ripped.
Once that is all done, I am more than happy to help out with some more.
Regards Christine
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 17:08, Chris Shepheard <chris.shepheard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:chris.shepheard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Dear all,
I’ve received an email today from Tony Deadman, a volunteer at the Museum of
Farnham who has been scanning the index books. He has completed two more
volumes – one covering 1962 to 1966 and the second 1976 and 1977.
They are currently uploading to pCloud. Once that is done I will send links to
you so they can be downloaded.
I propose Patsy and Rosemary now take on the 1962-66 volume and Karen makes a
start on 1976-77, unless you’d like to share them differently.
However if there is anybody reading this that feels left out please shout and
I’m sure the others will we able to set you going on an individual year of
those. Tony tells me that he will now step up the pace and aim to scan a volume
a week! (Amazingly he is taking the photographs with his mobile phone and then
stitching the book images back together!)
I’m sorry to say whoever takes on the 76-77 volume will have to deal with some
of my handwriting but at least I should be able to advise you what I think I
wrote!
My prototype database made with your hard work now totals 5,340 records and
works fine (I’ve already used it to answer a couple of queries). Has anybody
else tried it yet? You can find it at
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZ38y4XZ6mbfsPShyPmcgFAIDqqRp7xx4Bfy ;
along with the software to open it.
As I say the files are now uploading and it tells me that will take two hours
so don’t expect the links until later this evening.
Hopefully that will keep everybody busy for the rest of this lockdown 😉
Chris
Chris Shepheard
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