Audrey, The latter is pretty much what I am dealing with, this man is writing from the battlefront during the American Civil War--I'm up to April 1862. Ruth At 10:03 AM +0000 2/28/04, norman.lee1 wrote: >Fully agree that the 'change of mind' is well worth recording. It often >shines light on the thoughts and feelings of the person writing the document >and can bring to light some family situations or at least hint at them. If >you are lucky enough to get a run of wills you can follow family feuds and >quarrels as well as the opposite (I had the most wonderful short will in >which a man left his wife a cow called Lovely). This description was not >crossed out though. Of course, in the more official documents, crossings out >can be just mistakes with no particular undertones, except perhaps that the >clerk was in need of his dinner. > >Audrey -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT