Scenario: a now-deceased relative graduated college in the US before 1950; unknown major/field. No one seems to remember WHICH college or university. The jobs he held and from which he retired would not have required a college degree. Obit appears to have been written by an in-law and doesn't mention it. I surveyed the alumni offices of all the logical (and a few of less-logical) candidates to no avail. I had thrown up my hands on this, when I discovered that some college and university alumni offices do not hold a complete roster of graduates, but only rosters of those who either donated money or joined the alumni association (I discovered that by trying to get a current address of a friend who received his PhD the semester before my husband got his at the same University). The "logical" places were all in his home state (for fairly obvious financial reasons); the less-so were in nearby states up to 100 miles away from his home. The floor is now open for discussion of methodology for continued searching. Cheryl singhals@erols.com