Hello Again, Thanks to all of you who explained the Classifications necessity on the Message Boards. I posted a message to my board, explaining the rules, surnames typed in the Surname line, changing the Classification, etc. and I've now managed to offend some posters who are regular contributors and don't change the Classification field, when they post a reply. Is there someplace on the boards where definitions are available to explain the Classifications? If not, I would appreciate opinions if these make sense or not -- or if I should expand on them or give examples: Query - A question seeking information or data. Bible - Information that is posted from someone's family Bible. Biography - Posted information that doesn't come from official records. It may be from a book, newspaper article, family tree or general information about a person that someone has knowledge of. Birth - Official birth records. Cemetery - Information from cemetery burial books or headstones. Census - Transcriptions of census records Death - Information from death certificates or from a book of transcribed death records. Deed - Information from deeds or land ownership records. Immigration - Information from immigration or citizenship records. Lookup - Several sources of information such as birth, death and marriage records, all in the same post, where someone has done a lookup in reply to a query. Marriage - A record from the court house with official marriage license information. Military - Official record of someone's military service. Obituary - Transcription of a newspaper obituary. Pension - Information about an official record of a military pension -- may apply to Civil War or Revolutionary War survivors or their widows. Will - A copy of a will from the court. All of the above can either be a reply to a Query or not. They may be posted just because they apply to this county board. I'd appreciate opinions if any of these don't make sense or should be expanded on, as I'm not certain if they all sound correct. Thanks for your help, Marilyn