Thank you to the TEAR study for alerting me to the Guild Online Archives. I am a bit embarrassed to say I actually hadn't realised this service was available in this form, and it looks quite an exciting way of promoting my study as well as archiving. I am quite happy about the idea of using the structured BMD archive format for British records, and it looks like the "user defined" structure can be used for non-british BMD as well as other record sets. What I am most interested in is whether anyone has set up an online database of individuals that somehow identifies whether you have placed them in a reconstructed tree, and if so, who their parents and/or their earliest known ancestor is? I'm guessing I could do this in a user-defined database that started a bit like an international birth record (year of birth, place, parents names) with an added column for earliest known ancestor, and maybe for place of origin of earliest known ancestor, and possibly even for my database ref number (the RIN from legacy). And I know I should probably ask the administrator of the archive, but while I am here does anyone know if there is a maximum size of file (or maximum number of entries) for the archive? Corinne Curtis #5579