And that's my point. There are some obvious strays e.g. "Bill Brown, died Brisbane 12.3.2000 while holidaying in Australia, deeply mourned by his family in Outer Mongolia". There are obvious locals "Bill Brown, born lived and died in beautiful Brisbane". And there's a whole bunch in between, where we don't have much idea one way or the other. So rather than put the energy into spotting strays (since you will inevitably miss a lot), just transcribe the lot: locals, strays and everyone else. Make it Google searchable. If each of us set ourselves the task of doing this with just one set of records (say BDMs in a local newspaper for a year), everyone becomes a whole lot for find-able than they are today. Kerry