Mary Trevan's posting opened up an interesting issue, and I'm pleased that Virginia, Allan and others are addressing the question of the dormant IDs. She mentioned that some IDs may appear dorman because their transcriptions have been edited and uploaded by the co-ordinator. But it may not be as simple as that either. Peter Abbott and I receive a large number of personal files in all sorts of formats which we then process and upload. Most of these contributors are not FreeBMD transcribers. Although the data are always credited to the contributors the files are uploaded by us through our IDs. The reasons are twofold. Firstly, however thorough we may be many files are rejected first or second time around as errors are detected, and so they are better uploaded by us in our time. Second, and more important, is that the contributors want to share their endeavours with the genealogy community but may not want to take part in the formal transcription. This way when their entries are identified by the contributor's name and email address without them having to go through the process of learning about formats or downloading software. In the last six months I have dealt with 90 contributors in this way and Peter A has probably handled the same or more. Most of these would be considered 'dormant', but are very pleased that they have contributed their data to this project. Peter Hendy-Ibbs -- Researching: IBBS from Hunts/Beds and HENDY from Pembrokeshire Transcribing and reformatting for FreeBMD (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com)