Jeff Coleman wrote on Sun, 4 Apr 2010: >Until recently I was sure that it said you had to put a ? in if a mother or >spouse surname field had a long dash, just as you use ? for volume if there >is no volume shown in a handwritten addition. It still has the old link to >the UCF characters in the new text, but of course a dash is not a UCF >character. You're right, Jeff, I was sure of that as well. I looked for previous versions of the page on the Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/ . The last one archived there (June 2008) gave this answer to 6(aj): /Quote: The long dash indicates that the field is missing, therefore transcribe it as ? which means that the field is missing (see details of UCF characters). The same applies to other indicators of missing fields, such as wavy lines, but not to the dash in the Surname field of typeset pages which means "repeat the above Surname"; for these you repeat the Surname. /Unquote >Checking my outgoing emails I sent one to that effect to a transcriber >as recently as 20th March this year, and copied in the URL for the >link, so I must have looked at it then. If items in TKB are changed, >it would be very helpful if this list is advised at the same time. Echoed. I am expecting/hoping it's a recent mistake caused when the page was updated. -- Nowl