This could be REVOLUTIONARY if it is as good as it claims. A professor at CMU has developed image software to read eroded tombstones. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_531518.html Ellis Michaels Co-coordinator Pennsylvania USGenWeb Tombstone Project Allegheny County USGenWeb Archives File Manager Clearfield County USGenWeb Archives File Manager ellisrn@earthlink.net "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing" (Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)