The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.49 No.2 | September 2022

HGS News

done over the last few years, we will miss her. We are now pleased to welcome Tony Sinclair to the role and are looking forward to working closely with him as outside events begin to open up again after Covid. We are also welcoming a visit from Basingstoke group in August to show them our set-up here and how we operate. We would

be very pleased to see any of the other groups come on a visit. If you would like to join the friendly and welcoming team on the rota here at HRO please do contact Chris on 07779 936044 or researchmanager@hgs-online.org.uk Chris Pavey HGS Research Manager

Britons Dying Overseas (BDO) Index Rescanning of the original BDO index cards started in May of this year with the first phase of transcription starting later that month. This first phase, a verbatim transcription of the scanned card content

process will be the analysis and validation of the data transcribed during the first phase described above. Recruitment of data analysists and validators is ongoing and it is anticipated that their work will start during August. The ongoing BDO work is an exciting and major project that will, when complete in 2023/4, be a HGS resource that we believe to be unique in the field of genealogical research. If you would like to be part of the project then please contact the undersigned on bowman92@btinternet.com . We look forward to hearing from you. John Bowman

on to XL spreadsheets, is progressing satisfactorily with approximately 4,500 cards transcribed by mid-July. The transcription team involved in this work are located around the world, from Auckland, New Zealand, to Vancouver, Canada, but there is plenty of work available for any new transcribers that would like to join us, irrespective of where you live. The second phase of the BDO transcription

Errata

The June journal had an article on Charles BRAMBLE. Unfortunately the author made an error in

stating that Thomas Drover married Ruth Etherington. His wife should have been Ruth ETHERIDGE , sorry for any inconvenience.

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