USGenWeb Free Census Project Completion Instructions, CART and CenTrans: How To Output Your Transcription!
CenTrans: How To Output Your Transcription
CenTrans is made from two separate databases. When you get the .USR endings you have only exported half of the data and therefore it's unreadable by me when you submit it. To generate a database file to submit you need to do the following:
To Create a DBF for submission:
1. Open CenTrans and your data.
2. Go to the "Pages Index" in CenTrans
3. Go to the "CenTrans" tab on the top near the middle.
4. Choose the option "Create Database" and save the file (ending in .dbf)
to a floppy disk or a hard drive following the instructions.
5. Send this file to Janyce King at
janyce@maggie-sz.org or upload to the uploader at
http://www.usgwcensus.org/info/comp.htm
CART: How To Output Your Transcription
To Create a DBF/TDF for submission:
1. Close your transcription. (Go to the "Census Abstract" menu and choose "Close".)
2. Go to the "Export" Menu and choose "DBF" and at next screen your file
name should show under "Choose Census" and the radio button under "Format" should be DBF.
Then Click on the "Export" button. On next screen under "File Name" should be your file name and you pick a spot to save
the file. Make sure that the "Save file as type" is Database III (*.dbf) and click on the "OK" button.
3. For really large files you need to export them in Tab Delimited Format. To do this
go to the "Export" Menu and choose "TDF" and at next screen your file
name should show under "Choose Census" and the radio button under "Format" should be TDF.
Then Click on the "Export" button. On next screen under "File Name" should be your file name and you pick a spot to save
the file. Make sure that the "Save file as type" is Database III (*.tbf) and click on the
"OK" button.
4. Send this file to Janyce King at
janyce@maggie-sz.org or upload to the uploader at
http://www.usgwcensus.org/info/comp.htm
