In a message dated 10/23/98 8:56:23 AM US Mountain Standard Time, dpetty@juno.com writes: << I have a number of people that I know where the family was living at the time of a child's birth but I don't have documentation that the child was born there. Maybe grandmother was in the neighboring town and the baby was born there. I don't know. Is appropriate to put the city where I know the mother was living or should I just put the county and submit only documented information? >> Heidi I used to think that it was OK to enter "logical" information without documentation, but I have changed my mind especially if your Family History Work is to be shared with others. It is no service to enter information that others have no way of knowing was interpretative. If you cannot document your facts leave them blank so that others may know the search is still on. When you get information from others you accept their information and do not question it, usually. There is nothing as frustration as trying to research further information from "facts" that were undocumented, and turn out to be wrong or misleading. How much work will we get done if we always have to question, cleanup, and redo the information we have. Ancestral File is full of mistakes that are there because information that was not vital was assumed and submitted. I call vital information "the information that is needed to clear names for temple work" To submit your names to the temple you need a birth date and the country of the birth and it appears you have that. For me, it was tempting to "Fill in the blanks" when I was new at this, but now I have made a complete 180. If you can document it, record it and the source. If you think it might be or should be, keep it as notes, till the documentation comes to the surface. Family History Work is a labor of love and service that takes us to the temple. Genealogy is the researching of peoples lives and the events of their lives. Family History Work is done to satisfy the prompting of the spirit. Genealogy is done because archives exist and they are unorganized. The Archives are there because the Lord knows how strong the spirit is and how important it is that we go to the temple. Our family members are known to the Lord and if need be, in his time frame the information will come to light, and your assumption might even be right. Till then my advise, for what it's worth, wait for it to get "caught in the web" by letting others know you need it. Jim in Phoenix