I don't know if this is the answer to Melissa's question or not, but the reason (I would think) behind having the full documentation of each item, i.e., cemetery, bio, census, in the archives is to make it SEARCHABLE by surname at the national level. The Rootsweb search engine that powers the national search does not search at the county level. So someone entering their surname into that national search would not find the materials they were looking for at the county level. Also, one of the considerations I had prior to placing my materials in the archives was very simple, there are a lot of people out there on the Internet who are blind. They cannot read the tables and graphics and such that we use on standard HTML pages. By providing a text version, they too can access this material in a user friendly manner. Material placed in a table on one of these computers is all run together with no space between one cell and the next to it thus rendering it gibberish. Since my Pierce County site is definitely NOT user-friendly to these computers, I did not want to leave this section of the population out and placed my materials in the archives. As to formatting into text, that is very easily accomplished without having to reenter data. There is a program called NoteTab Light, a freebie which can be downloaded (I think Tina has the URL, sorry Tina forgot to bookmark) that will strip all the HTML code out of a document and place it in text format at the click of a button. I have used it to place all my HTML materials in the WI archives. Debbie http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/