Tom Wetmore wrote: > Cheryl, > > I stand corrected. I was talking about standard GEDCOM. The _UID tag is an > extension tag used by some systems. As you say, UID's should be immutable > for all time and space. But since it's not a standard tag there's not telling what > might happen to it on import to arbitrary programs. Any program that changes > its value on import should be taken behind the barn and shot. You could be right, but I would have sworn it was in the GedStan. (shrug) I've been wrong before -- and /recently/. Cheryl