Just found this site...haven't tried it yet but WOW looks promising for identifying what language a word is or for translating words...and a whole lot of other things as well. Looks impressive anyway. Here it is... http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html Check it out! Becky -- Volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm mailto:btgool@swbell.net