I have belatedly found the UK (sic) Land Tax Redemption 1798 on Ancestry. Apart from the misleading title since it is actually Great Britain and covers more years for some places, there is a transcription oddity, and for once I sympathise slightly with the transcribers. The Registers have columns for "Names of Proprietors", then "Names of Occupiers" then the sums assessed, etc. What has happened in the registers I am researching is that the clerk has put in, for instance in consecutive lines: Proprietor Robt Wright Occupier Himself Proprietor Jas Thubbron Occupier Do (ditto) The transcriber has made this: Proprietor Robt Wright, Occupier Robt Wright Proprietor Jas Thubbron, Occupier Robt Wright This is not an isolated occurrence, but in most other cases the ditto is taken to mean "himself", not the person deduced to be "himself" in the line above, ie Prorietor Jas Thubbron, Occupier Jas Thubbron. I feel sure this is what the original means, but was there any formal convention for the use of "ditto" in documents to avoid this misleading situation? Adrian