Melissa, I don't have to visually scan since I use the "find" menu to search the text for Parchman. It only takes a few seconds to scan and then delete each one. So far, I've only found 4 names so far, but they mostly for living children without the Parchman parent's name, and I can't connect them to my tree which only goes up to about 1930. I put them aside for future use. Gerry

Melissa, I agree with Gerry. Your condensed version of the obits are fine. The way you have them set up makes it easy for me to go directly to the line that I need. Also (much to the chagrin of my family), I am a very fast reader; so the way you do it is fine with me. I am looking forward to any obits you post from the early 30s to the early 40s, if you have them. Jeanette Gerry Parchman wrote: >Melissa, > >I don't have to visually scan since I use the "find" menu to search the text >for Parchman. It only takes a few seconds to scan and then delete each one. >So far, I've only found 4 names so far, but they mostly for living children >without the Parchman parent's name, and I can't connect them to my tree >which only goes up to about 1930. I put them aside for future use. > >Gerry > > > >==== TNSTEWAR Mailing List ==== >Stewart Co. Genealogy home: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/index.htm > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > >