In a message dated 25/11/2001 01:28:53 GMT Standard Time, rcjones(a)rmplc.co.uk
writes:
Hi Alwyn
Have you thought of contacting FreeCen, the UK Census Online Project
at
http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ ?
Hello, Dick, thanks for your comments about FreeCen
I have had a look at the FreeCen web page, like FreeReg and FreeBMD I think
that it is a brilliant project, I wish it all success and I am willing to
send them my transcriptions if they want them.
However I have decided to post my transcriptions on to my own Rootsweb
Freepages, rather than go through FreeCen for a number of reasons
1. FreeCen is not searchable at the moment. By putting my transcription on
Freepages it makes them available to others on a page by page basis. (I had
50% of Llanelltyd 1841 uploaded when I sent my original message, today it
is90%, hopefully, tomorrow it will be 100% ( see it here! <A
HREF="http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~alwyn/H/HANESDOLGELLAU/...
Index</A>)
2. FreeCen, quite sensibly, is working to a transcription plan, unfortunatly
Wales does not appear very central to that plan at the moment. Beaumaris and
Bangor, due to go on-line twelve months after the initial upload, being the
only Welsh entries published so far in their plans.
3. FreeCen appears to be having some difficulties at the moment. Devon &
Cornwall 1891 were expected to be accessible through their site from October,
they were not on line at the beginning of last week
4 The last time in enquired, they were not willing to take databases of fewer
than 5000 entries from individuals who wanted to concentrate on their own
patch, It will be a very long time before I have transcribed that many census
entries. And, sorry to be parochial, but I am more interested in making 300
Llanelltyd or Dolgellau area entries available than I am in adding to the
Cornish or Devon data.
Regards
Alwyn