From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   On 31/07/18 22:48, Tickettyboo wrote:   
   > On 2018-07-31 19:28:45 +0000, Richard Smith said:   
   >   
   >> On sites like FreeReg or the various Online Parish Clerk projects,   
   >> transcripts are done entirely by volunteers.  The choice of what to   
   >> transcribe is made by some combination of the volunteers and project   
   >> coordinators, depending how each project is run.  Having spoken over   
   >> the years to some of the volunteers who transcribe these registers, I   
   >> know some are happy to transcribe anything and others are only   
   >> interested in transcribing records from their own areas of interest.  I   
   >> was quite surprised to hear from people involved with FreeReg quite how   
   >> many people were happy to transcribe anything.  Clearly the people   
   >> doing that are not doing it for any personal reward (other than the   
   >> satisfaction of doing something useful).   
   >   
   >  Do you really mean to infer that those who do  transcribe for an area   
   > they know well and happen to have ancestors recorded in said registers   
   > are doing it solely for personal reward?   
      
   No, of course not.  Don't be ridiculous.  But it's reasonable to suppose   
   that some of people transcribing areas they know are doing so because   
   they expect to be able to get some use from those transcripts.  I know   
   that if I were given a choice between, say, transcribing a Hampshire   
   register and Cumberland one I'd choose the Hampshire, partly because ten   
   out of my sixteen great great grandparents were from that county whereas   
   (rather to my surprise) Cumberland doesn't feature once in my database,   
   so I'm rather more likely to get some use from the Hampshire transcript.   
     And there are practical reasons too.  I far more likely to recognise   
   place names and surnames local to Hampshire than I am for Cumberland.   
      
   Richard   
      
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