You've apparently encountered information that has been extracted from a World Family Tree. These are trees submitted to Broderbund Software, the company that makes the program, Family Tree Maker. FTM users are invited to submit their trees to Broderbund, who "privatizes" them and, for the fields that have no dates, they "estimate" the date range. Then, these trees are put on CD's and sold to the general public. Some of these date range estimates are pretty wide, and I don't know what their criteria are for them, but "WFT Est. [yr. estimates]" appears in those fields. Hope this helps. Annie U. _______________________________________ On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Gene Maddox wrote: > I recently ran across the notation WFT est, which is followed by a wide > range of dates. This applies to birth, death, and marriage dates. It > appears in records of Scottish people. Anyone know what that means? >