Liane, Thanks so much for the statement below. I have often wondered that people would indicate on census that they could read but not write. Your explanation makes perfect sense. "Many people who went to school for, say, 7 years or so could read quite well. What they weren't so good at doing later in life was writing. I suppose if you did very little writing between the time you left school at 12 or 14, signing an X was sometimes easier than trying to write your name. Most writing at school was done on blackboards without the luxury of pads of paper and notebooks that those of us who grew up post-WWII had. Plenty of pencils and pens, too." Judy Oklahoma City