At a genealogy conference almost a year ago I bought a two volume "A Basic Course in Genealogy." It is actually the text of the time [about 50 years ago] for their genealogical training classes. Needless to say, it does not include computers. One of the more amazing things to me isl those questions we struggle with, how to indicate this, what about this, are answered. As we struggle with them now we are reinventing the wheel. Example, "place of birth is known but it is in a town different from the christening or "full date of an event unreadable." [Imagine that!] There is a procedure for listing children who die before their 8th birthday and their name is not known. [son Jones/daughter Jones] Those who die after their 8th birthday and their name is not known are Mr. Jones or Miss Jones. Why the 8th birthday? It doesn't particularly matter why. It is a system that works in all cases and provides uniform recording, something we all strive for. We may not want to use that system but we can look to it for suggestions on how to handle sticky or unusual issues. It also tackles foreign sources because so many LDS came over from Europe in the 1800s. Way out of date and yet useful -- give those old books a second look even if they don't mention computers. Cheryl Rothwell