Hi all, Although the discussion list is supposed to be for experienced transcribers and I have been transcribing for only a few weeks, I hope you will excuse my input as I feel that I have enough experience to make a contribution. Taking Dave Mayall's advice to move the thread from the Admin list, I would like to request that the period following a forename be omitted from the transcription. Val Turner has already pointed out that including the period when using WinBMD (also SpeedBMD) causes considerable problems and so transcribing a page will take much longer that it would otherwise do. Of course the time factor would be irrelevant if the information was important and needed to be transcribed. However, in this case the period is quite obviously just a separator, and not part of the name itself. It would seem to me also, that if a period was included, then anyone searching for such a name would have to include the period in the search criteria as though it was part of the name, otherwise the name would not be found, and how many people would do that? Taking everything on balance, it seems to me that the period after the forename is not needed, although others may disagree. Could we please have some input so we can get a definitive answer to this? Regards David Gray Heysham, Lancashire Norton AntiVirus protected David Gray Heysham, Lancashire Norton AntiVirus protected