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Am I right in thinking that there is no way of going back to AS and adding an auto text transcription (plain text or rich text) of a census that had no transcription added at the time of entry?

If that is the case, does anyone have any suggestions about how to go about adding a transcription without re-entering the entire census? Since the census gets broken up into various facts (census, occupation, etc.) I suppose this is not a trivial task.

Thanks
Adrian

What I've done where I have old pre-Rich-Text or missing transcriptions (all types) is to use AS to quickly re-enter the minimal information enough to generate the desired auto-text. Then select all and copy the auto-text to the text-from-source in the source record. It's a bit tedious if you have loads and loads, but quick if it's only the odd one. This makes it consistent with any others you are generating via AS.

Hope this helps.

No, no way to go back in to AS and do it without re-entering the whole census.

I would go to another family who has a census from the same year entered with the transcript, copy and paste into the Source from Text box, and then edit it to reflect the family for whom I don't have the transcript. Still time consuming, but at least all done within FH.

I also have my own census abstract forms in .rtf format, so I might just copy/paste one of those in and go from there.

Worse for me is when I accidentally use the wrong source template in AS and realize too late...

ADC65 wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2023 20:40

Am I right in thinking that there is no way of going back to AS and adding an auto text transcription (plain text or rich text) of a census that had no transcription added at the time of entry?

If that is the case, does anyone have any suggestions about how to go about adding a transcription without re-entering the entire census? Since the census gets broken up into various facts (census, occupation, etc.) I suppose this is not a trivial task.

Thanks
Adrian

Thank you both for the quick replies.

I've received so much help here that whenever I see a chance to return the favour, I take it...

ADC65 wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2023 21:18

Thank you both for the quick replies.

ADC65 wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2023 20:40

Am I right in thinking that there is no way of going back to AS and adding an auto text transcription (plain text or rich text) of a census that had no transcription added at the time of entry?

If that is the case, does anyone have any suggestions about how to go about adding a transcription without re-entering the entire census? Since the census gets broken up into various facts (census, occupation, etc.) I suppose this is not a trivial task.

Thanks
Adrian

You could use the Census Source Convert feature to create a rich-text transcription. Once you select the source you will need to use the 'Add Headers' as there won't be a grid to enter data into. Then you would need to type data into all the fields in the grid and then right-click on the row headers and allocate the individuals to each row (if you want to use the hyperlinks for the individuals).

NickWalker wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2023 22:33

You could use the Census Source Convert feature to create a rich-text transcription.

Thank you Nick. I watched your excellent video (more than once in fact) and thought there might be a workaround like that. However, I was thinking of revisiting a number of my early censuses and creating transcriptions, and I have a few hundred of them at least, so I was wondering if there was a 'cheat' way of doing it Thanks.

NickWalker wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2023 22:33

You could use the Census Source Convert feature to create a rich-text transcription. Once you select the source you will need to use the 'Add Headers' as there won't be a grid to enter data into. Then you would need to type data into all the fields in the grid and then right-click on the row headers and allocate the individuals to each row (if you want to use the hyperlinks for the individuals).

Wow - good to know Thanks for this!

Teresa