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Hello,

After such a tremendous work done on AG over the last 5 years, I would be interested to apply as an adjudicator. I could then be in a position to contribute even more to that fabulous project.

Presently, I'm on the transcription of the 1852 census in the St-Roch subdistrict in Quebec city. A hard job there with an English enumerator who wrote French surnames as pronounced: Arsenault written as Hersnaux, Taschereau as Tashreau. And the bended calligraphy doesn't help.

http://automatedgenealogy.com/census52/ ... p?id=43943

Thx for replying.

Michel Dubois.

Michel
Thank you for your interest in this project and all the transcription and proof reading that you have done.
Before adjudication can be done, pages should be proof read. Proof reading is important and a priority because if a proof reader enters a correction for a surname, that surname correction is available to researchers who are searching for the corrected name.
Adjudicators are not allowed to adjudicate any page that they have transcribed or proof read.
I would suggest that your greatest contribution to the project would be to continue proof reading and transcribing. In regard to proof reading, if the transcriber does not respond to your suggested corrections within a reasonable time, you can request that the pages be adjudicated as you have done previously, and an adjudicator will clean up the pages. However, the transcriber must be given adequate time to respond to the corrections before an adjudicator can interfere.
Thank you again for your interest,
Marilyn

Hello Marilyn,

Thanks for your good words. The're much appreciated.

However, after 3000 hours of work in that marvelous AG garden, you could figure that I was aware of most of the rules you mentioned.

Now, could I suggest that the actual proofreading method isn't fully adequate. Indeed, as a system engineer, I would rather propose a better proofreading method. The actual method isn't efficient and rather tiring for the proofreader, since he has to continuously move the cursor and the eyes up and down to accomplish correctly the job.

I suggest that you take a look at the ideal display for proofreading:

http://gridou.voila.net/automatedgenealogy.jpg

This is a simple display example prepared with ordinary scissors.

In this example, you realize that proofreading can be done in a jiffy, especially for shorter columns.

In implementing that method of proofreading, you could reduce substantially the time and effort required for proofreading.

That method could be implemented through a simple local program in the PC that could intercept the incoming files and rearrange the display.

Think of it. Years of effort saved!

BTW, I like to mention that I met Dr Haws from Wisconsin in AG a few months ago. After an update of his family links, I emailed him about those new links. Then, he contacted me about his wishes to find his wife's ancestors from Charlesbourg. Indeed, their ancestor Pierre Mann had unknown parents. So, I started a research through all the censuses and the notarie's acts in the Archives Nationales site in Quebec city. I already found a lot of new facts and I set up a web site intended for the understanding of the mutual findings:

http://mann.voila.net

So, isn't amazing that Dr Haws in Wisconsin, not reading French, and me in Quebec City, can help him to pursue his researches of ancestors, all that due to the AG garden.

After all, I've been very disappointed that you could'nt consider a move as adjudicator in my case.

But as things evolve naturally, I'm pretty sure that you will revise your decision eventually.

Cheers.

Michel Dubois.