No...that isn't the case here. These are tax records, compiled and written by a single tax clerk...and as such, aren't signed in any way by the folks whose names appear on the list. What you're referring to is when a person is illiterate, and he 'makes his mark', by his name as written by someone else...... generally these have the words His and Mark printed over and under that mark. S. The "X" meant that the person made his mark because he was illiterate and then the clerk wrote the name in. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006