Pavia Projects
Our oldest projects, Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Morte, 1866-1937 and Pavia, Lombardia, Italia: Registri di Matrimonio, 1866-1937, have been around for almost 4 years and are some of our slowest moving projects, with projected completion dates of 2643 and 2713. For these reasons, length of time they have been available (they were set up in a 4+ year old system) and their slow progress, we have decided to remove them from the list of available projects to work on.
Both projects are currently available to browse in the Pavia, Lombardy, Italy, Civil Registration Records, 1866-1937 database.
I’m not familiar with these projects but I feel heartbroken for those who spent many hours keying for them. So their keying is wasted and it’s just for browsing now. That’s too bad.
I wish we could know well in advance of such projects so we could devote our energies towards them. I’m willing to pull out my foreign language books, too, if I’d only known.
Again, I hope you come out with a list of projects which needs attention before you yank them without warning. Please give us the opportunity to do so out of respect for those who dedicated so much time to key them in the first place.
Please consider a high priority list of projects. We’d be more than willing to concentrate on them. We want all projects to be completed and want a warning if they are in trouble of being yanked.
It’s hard to think we keyers who devote our time and energy on keying on a particular project might have that project yanked without warning in the future. It keeps happening, though.
Please, please consider saying whether or not a project is high priority or being in danger of being yanked without warning! Please consider the keyers and their efforts. Without us, AWAP would not exist.
Our goal as keyers is to have all projects indexed and searchable to the public. And yours is the same yet in a certain time frame if we only knew what that was……
Sincerely,
Jane