Another problem with all this is that the symbol for the pound does not always appear as the pound symbol in Rootsweb messages ........ so that some listers might have seen the original message as "4s in the ? " instead of "4s in the pound symbol" . To show what I mean , here is the pound symbol £ . If the previous sentence didn't end in a curly capital L with a horizontal bar across its middle ( and then the sentence's full stop = US point ) , I've made my point . If it did , lucky you :>) I do hope that he£ped ;>) Robert Hi££ier , Poo£e