Karen, Yes, it can be done under certain circumstances. I had a dear friend who worked in the recorder's office who had actually gone through the process of clearing pre-1500 names for someone to do. They make it a firm guideline so they can check. And it doesn't apply to some Asian countries where the records were better. Jerry ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:27:49 -0600 From: Karen Tippets <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] European records chronology To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]om> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 If someone suddenly runs across estate records in some country of their ancestral origin that go back pre-1500 documenting the people's lives who lived on the estate, I'm sure the Medieval department would be happy to allow the family to work on getting the Temple work done, after checking to make absolutely sure it isn't a duplication of records already being worked on somewhere. It's not like they say, "No, you absolutely can't", but more like "There's not much we haven't already gotten access to, so check first." To my mind, that sounds perfectly reasonable, but obviously there's lots of folks out there that want to re-invent the wheel *their* way. Karen __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6932 (20120302) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com