I agree with Dave that this is probably vandalism but I still think it should have a comment. I believe that it should be transcribed as two entries with WARD and COURT as mothers' name respectively and with a comment (between them) of: #COMMENT(2) annotation, probably vandalism, joins the mother's name with another entry to make "A WARD OF COURT xxx" The basis for this approach is that it is not possible to transcribe the bracketing so one transcribes what one can and adds the #COMMENT to explain how the transcription differs from the original. Barrie On 19:59, barn01@ntlworld.com wrote: > I'd appreciate your guidance regarding 1956B2H0149 > > At line 107 there are 2 consecutive entries where the mothers' names of WARD and COURT are bracketed together and annotated to read A WARD OF COURT [J_][O_][B_] > > My gut instinct is to TWIS and input A WARD OF COURT [J_][O_][B_] for each respective mother's field, but I was wondering if there is an officially more apt way of dealing with such a case > > Peter > 4069 > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner--