Joy, In regard to your friends use of magic markers on books, etc., there a couple of problems with magic markers. One is that when you highlight words with a magic marker on a paper, when same paper is photocopied the magic marker print is also copied onto the second copy, leaving a dark stain over the words. Second, highlighting pens should never be used to mark books. It ruins the book, and takes away seriously from the quality of the book. Think after you or I are gone that book may continue on to be used by others and if it is highlighted all through with yellow marking--I have even seen turqoise highlighting--it makes the book more diffiucult to read besides also causing the above photocopy problelm. Also I have received from other researchers photocopies of papers that have stick-ons with various family notes written on them. Usually the stick-ons are stuck over the text at some place and if I want to photocopy the paper I have to remove the stick-ons and figure out how to get both the info in the text and the info on the stick-on onto the same photocopy. (Usually I wind up writing the info on the stick-on into the margin of the text.) And the other thing about stick-ons is that after a few months they don't stick anymore, then the bottom of your file cabinet or floor becomes covered with fallen stick-ons and how do you get them to stick on now. For me the it used to be that the best thing for separating families was a notebook with an index tab paper divider. The tab that lists the surname. Of course I say "used to be" because now I put everything into a file folder and file it in a file cabinet, surname first, then first name, then date of birth. On the file folder itself I write in pencil the cross references, such as, see Jane Jones (1828) file also. Anyway, some experience with magic markers and stick ons. Jim Windsor