On May 22, 12:08 pm, Nick Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > A quick note on reference documents, ideally they would fit on a single > sheet of paper. Whilst there's no actual limit on size, if the document > is large the user should consider creating a summary to work from or > breaking it down into extracts. The main example of a longer reference document that I can think of is a will. When I'm transcribing a will, I try to resist the temptation to summarise it, as there have been plenty of times when the seemingly- irrelevant information I would have omitted has turned out to be useful. On one occasion, I established that the farm left to a son in a 18th century will was the same farm whose copyhold was held a century earlier by someone of the same surname according to the manorial records. On another the particular church where the person chose to be buried turned out to be the village he had likely grown up in, and where his parents were from. Richard