A few weeks ago (or was it months?) we had another round of "the best way to enter place names". I came down firmly against including the parish name. This week that viewpoint hardened even more, thanks to a relative-by-marriage who died about a year ago. Aunt Ett (NOT her real name) shared data on her Swedish line with me, so someone else would have it. The Swedish data was found for her by a professional researcher who charged her dearly about 15-20 years ago. He did NOT provide her copies (I'm guessing microfilm copiers weren't prolific yet or maybe she told him she didn't need official copies and he didn't want to make plain ones; dunno), just the prose reports. So, when I entered it into a genie program for her, I typed what was there. What else could I do? Now that a lot of Swedish records are on-line, I've been trying to confirm what he gave her. First off, let me say, yeah, he earned his money. And, no, so far he doesn't seem to have made anything up, precisely. He does seem to have reported things as "fact" when I would have labelled them "alleged facts" if I'd been charging for 'em, but that could be /my/ problem rather than /a/ problem. Anyway, in confirming the material at hand, I'm discovering that in some instances, he reported places as Parish, State; in some it was district, state; in some it was parish, district. I'm sure HE knew where they were, but after a week of intense digging, /I'm/ still not sure. I'll put money on the notion that Aunt Ett didn't know either! The research isn't made easier by the local guvvmint's geographic changes in 1952 (about half-a-century after the last contact over there died), or by the lack of cross-references in catalogues to those pre- and post- locales. I can only be grateful I'm not looking in the early 1700s and dealing with that episode of Swedish independence vis-a-vis calendars! It wouldn't have /killed/ that researcher to have added Parish to the parish name. Nor so I see that it would have diminished his machismo any to have hand-added the flaming diacriticals! (eye-roll) Cheryl [Yeah, it would have helped if I'd've kept the documents Aunt Ett had, but like a good little thing, I returned them to her.