james- work is coming along fine on the file, but i'm sorry that i haven't gotten it turned back to you sooner than this... i got caught up in some other things, plus the clean-up is taking longer than i'd hoped it would, mostly because the typography of the book really wasn't quite up to snuff. in the meantime, you can always work on the family-trees. *** to make this post more widely applicable, i can probably reiterate the point i usually describe at the very beginning: take care to select a well-done book which will scan nicely. or, if you're using pre-existing o.c.r., make sure it's good. otherwise, you might well have to spend a lot more time. for instance, on this book which james is digitizing now, he faces the triple whammy -- poor p-book typography, bad scans, and internet archive's careless text handling (where the book is missing em-dashes, utf8, and italics). so even after all the time he and i have spent cleaning it, my guess is that he would still be finished with it sooner if he were to start from scratch and do the job correctly... -bowerbird