Rob > How do you do this? How do you remember everyone?!? It's VERY rare to see > a message from you saying you'd forgotten someone was in a tree, you must > have an incredibly good memory!!!! So, what's your secret, for when > Alzheimer's catches up with me?!? lol Simple. My Atari is always on and I rarely divulge my failures. Though just the other day, I had to ask John who was our link with the Derbyshire KNIBBS because I'd forgotten. Thankfully, he knew which saved me searching through my databanks, those on computers/paper and in head! The gestation period was an impossible one ie a William Sharp KNIBB 01qtr 1866 (died 01qtr1867) and Wilkin George who I reckon is William George 03qtr 1866. I'm still not convinced about these dates/individuals and I take your point re births, particularly bearing (good word in this context :-) in mind late registrations. By contrast, on Tuesday, I did discreetly try to tell a NIBBS descendant that I wasn't wrong about his mother's birth in 1920 not 1922. I don't see how there could ever be an early birth registration. He hasn't replied as yet but I'm ready to discount an earlier birth and death followed by a second child. As for Betty, I was troubled she was not on the 1901 census but she could be Sarah KNIBBS even though 1m there, particularly as I found another West Bromwich District family with a Sarah 5mo in 1901; it was probably she who married in 1925. So take everything I say with the proverbial pinch of salt but I strive to get there in the end. I do have a party trick of remembering 50 items/words given at random by guests and repeating them back either in order or in association with a number between 1 and 50. Anyone can do that though so long as they devise a good enough picture code eg my 23 is a section of the A23 road to Brighton! I see in my mind's eye the word associated with that road, the more comical the better. However, ask me for the names of those in the room and I'm totally useless!! Somehow it's different if someone is the subject of a GRO death record!!! bfn Alan