Bob, Genealogists are in bad need of an easy way to transcribe the original census records. Some originals are clear and some are eyball shattering. How ever, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and perhaps you can help or use the information later. There is a suburb of Boston which contains the Eastman Software, Inc, 600 Technology Park Drive, Bellerica, MA 01821. They have a computer program that has the capability of transcribing the Census if they can get the word out on "Imaging for Windows" which S-K is using on their Census CDs There are some problems for some "end users", like me: 1. I need to know how to 'erase' annotations such as text or highlighting, should I make a mistake. 2. I need to know how to accurately position any 'annotations'. 3. I need to know how to eliminate the background of the original document, while leaving the 'annotations' in place. If only a few of the genealogists were able to develope "overlays" for some of the Census sheets, the study of genealogy would be greatly accelerated. I have 'suggested this before, on the net, but all it did was to generate a lot of 'hate mail' ( It seems the transcribers either want to do all of a counties reports, or none at all) I now dump this in your lap because you represent the future of genealogy and the fact that you live not very far from Eastman and might be able to meet the engineer that developed "Imaging for Windows". I realize that this may all be Greek to you now, it is of utmost importance to future genealogists who need to be able to view indexed census for any census year, for any county , which to my knowledge is not yet available. If I have not made the problem clear, it is only because I am not fluent enough and perhaps I can improve in the future I shall risk some more 'hate mail" by sending this note to other people who might also be interested in genealogy. Thanks for listening ! L&S, Bob Davis Vancouver, WA