Hi folks, I just came from my monthly computer club meeting, which my friend, and a fellow list member, happens to attend also. She was one of the first to get my book, and promised to look for typos for me. I knew that there would be some, but until I talked to Jackie tonight, I hadn't thought about something, that I know that ya'll wouldn't know about because most of you haven't been involved in the transcriptions of old newspapers. I guess that since I have been doing this for over 2 years, that it just didn't cross my mind to mention in the front of the book that writing styles have changed in our lifetimes. (Actually longer than 2 years, if you count how long I have been reading them and didn't have the idea of transcribing, more like 4 or 5 years reading them.) Thanks go out to Jackie for pointing something out to me. I just should have thought to put a notice in the book that words like church, cemetery, street, avenue, hospital, etc. were not capitalized in the old newspapers. They appear without a capital letter. I don't know when the style changed, I think that it would be an interesting thing to find some research information about when the rules changed. Even papers in the 1950s have things like, "Green street" and not "Green Street" as we would write it. The further you go back in time, the stranger the capitalization (as compared to our modern day times) gets. Words like, Funeral Services or Family and Friends would be capitalized, but Browntown funeral home, would not be. First baptist church might be written as I just did or as First Baptist church. However you see it in my book. 99 times out of 100, I didn't really make a typo with the capitalization. Tuomey hospital would have been standard for way back when, while Tuomey Hospital (it's new name something like Tuomey Medical Center) is the present day correct form. It's funny. I have gone through Dee's book and she though mine, and of course neither of us commented to one another about the odd capitalization rules our ancestors must have had. We both have been through so many old newspapers, that we don't see it as odd anymore. It's just how it was. Old wills and documents are like that too. The oddest words in the middle of a sentence will suddenly be capitalized. I am going to pay attention and see if I can figure out when the rules changed. Have a great week. Cindy Sumter, S.C. P.S. Sorry not to think to mention it at the front of the book. I will do so in the next edition.