Trove Tuesday - Edited by Bev G.

As I was selecting an article for a Trove Tuesday post for my Family History Group I found that someone had added a bit of extra text "Edited by Bev G" into the article's transcription.

1898 'BOATING NATALITY AT BROOKLYN.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 11 November, p. 5. , viewed 14 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14184670

From time to time I have found typos in Trove newspaper articles but I have religiously transcribed from the original.

While it is tempting to change or add to the transcribed text this is contrary to the Trove correction guidelines (http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/digitised-newspapers/text-correction-guidelines)

"Abuse/Spam/malicious corrections, etc.

If you discover corrections that are clearly not part of the original text feel free to correct them back to the original text. If the corrections contain links, swearing, or occupy significant amounts of the article please report using the Contact us page and these will be rolled back (rolling back corrections removes them from the correction history as well as reverting the corrections to an earlier stage)."

While the "Edited by Bev G" addition to the above article is not abuse or malicious it shouldn't be there so I have corrected it. The transcribed text must accurately reflect the original.

Save on NSW BDM Transcriptions

I notice that Marilyn Rowan has an Australia Day special. so, if you are in the market for some transcriptions now is the time to act. Copied below is Marilyn's announcement.

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Billion Graves

On our recent trip we travelled back to Sydney via a few towns where some ancestors buried.

One of the cemeteries I had previously visited in Cobar many years ago but the images I had taken of my grandparents' headstones were poor quality. I wanted to rephotograph these and also look for other family resting spots. The two other cemeteries where I managed to find some family graves, in Broken Hill and Forbes, were new to me.

Locating the graves in each of these sites wasn't particularly easy. In Cobar and Forbes there was no resource available to pinpoint the graves' exact location; the map of Broken Hill Cemetery that was available by the Cemetery gate was quite confusing even for Mr Geniaus who is not spatially challenged like me.

Ben Hall the Bushranger - Forbes Cemetery

In order to make it easy for cousins who may be seeking these graves in the future I added each of them to Billiongraves. The GPS coordinates that Billiongraves attaches to these images will make finding them in the future much easier for those who make use of the Billiongraves site or app.

As we were on a tight time schedule I could not commit myself to photographing all of the graves in each of these cemeteries. I did, however, take and upload a few rows of headstones  around the graves I was visiting in Cobar and Broken Hill.

In less than half an hour I was able to photograph over 100 images in Cobar cemetery. These are now available on Billiongraves site; those who wish to visit these graves can use the GPS coordinates to locate them efficiently.

How about joining and downloading the  Billiongraves  app to your Android or other device so that you can contribute to the database when you find yourself (above ground) in a cemetery. While in a cemetery take some time to photograph a row or two of graves. This is a painless and enjoyable way of helping others connect with their ancestors.

NSW Transcriptions

I just had an email from NSW Transcription agent, Marilyn Rowan, in regards to her free researcher matching service. It seems as though someone else has ordered a certificate that I had previously ordered for an ancestor and Marilyn was asking for my permission to give my contact details to the other researcher. I look forward to making contact with this person.

I also note that Marilyn has expanded her range of services to include a new DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SERVICE (Probate, Convict, Shipping etc).Full details and prices can be found at http://www.transcriptions.com.au/pages/marbdocorder.php.