Kathy wrote: >*My opinion* is that the author's responsibility is to be forthcoming and inform the reader; it is not the reader's responsbility to reconstruct the reasoning (the sum of the evidence) for the author's conclusion from bits and pieces of information scattered around various pages, footnotes, and endnotes. Amen. Oyez. Hear ye, all ye writers! Elizabeth ---------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG www.HistoricPathways.com www.EvidenceExplained.com www.Facebook.com/EvidenceExplained