"Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com> wrote: >I imagine in such cases the person doing the marking thought they were helping out posterity by making what they thought were corrections, clarifications, or expansions of information on the sheet I'm aware of a case in which zealous local historians went through the original records in their county and used eradicator fluid to eliminate the word "Negro" wherever they found it. The road to hell, paved with weirdly good intentions. John