roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > However, am I being unfair in thinking these showbiz > luvvies can turn on the tears and emotion to demand? Clearly, none of them can > be family historians since people such as ourselves would take it all in our > stride! Wouldn't we??? To some extent, maybe. As a profession they're trained to produce emotional responses to scripts. Your immediate professional reaction would be to some genealogical fact think how to get an article out of it, mine would be how to draw up a data structure to record it and theirs would be to produce a reaction as if it were all current reality in front of them. Horses for courses. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk