Fife, Scotland, School Admissions and Withdrawals 1864-1914


This project is school admission and withdrawal forms from Fife, Scotland, between the year of 1864 and 1914.  A record is any child’s name on a Register or withdrawal form.  Most of the records have the parent or guardian name listed.  We are also capturing a Title Page which has the school name and year or year range.  This is an easy key and will go fast since it’s lists of names and the handwriting is a little easier to read.  The biggest challenge I had was staying on the right line when indexing.

If you have any questions or need additional direction you can visit the Project Page or the help page here.

Enjoy keying.

Information and Links

Join the fray by commenting, tracking what others have to say, or linking to it from your blog.

Information
August 30th, 2017
4 Responses
Feeds and Links
Comment Feed
From This Author
Del.icio.us
Digg
Technorati
Categories and Tags
New Keying Projects

Other Posts

Write a Comment

Take a moment to comment and tell us what you think. Some basic HTML is allowed for formatting.

Reader Comments

Comment Number:
1
Written by:
Patricia M Capps
Posted on:
September 6, 2017 at 5:25 pm

I cannot find a place to “gripe” so will do it here. I’ve been a prolific contributor for YEARS. I’ve always achieved an Excellent or Outstanding rating. I’m now graded as Needs Improvement. Totally pissed about it and you’ve encouraged me to cut back on my transcription. I really do question some of the Arbitrators/Reviewers accuracy and skills. There………..i feel better now!

Comment Number:
2
Written by:
Jeni Mason
Posted on:
September 8, 2017 at 5:39 am

Patricia, do you ever read any of the WAP message boards? I’m guessing not because this has been reported as a minor bug for some years. If you key a lot of records and there is a backlog in review, then you %accuracy can’t be meassured for the last 90 days. However this results in an inaccurate grading of Needs Improvement. It is nothing to do with the accuracy or skills of the Reviewers!

Comment Number:
3
Written by:
Joy Christensen
Posted on:
September 8, 2017 at 2:09 pm

Thank you for your feedback. There are some systematic reporting and feedback issues within the reporting. We appreciate all you contribute to these valuable records.

Comment Number:
4
Written by:
Jamie Stott
Posted on:
September 16, 2017 at 4:31 pm

I do arbitrate and it has always bothered me that there is not some way for keyers to get direct feedback, I know it would have been helpful for me when I first started.

For example I reviewed a set where the keyer used 4 year “years” example: 1920 instead of 20 as written. The rest of her input was pretty well done. Since each line had two dates on it, the keying score is not going to be good.

If I was a new keyer and got that score, I might be discouraged from typing anymore, where in fact, he/she really only has to change *1* thing