On Jan 4, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Barbara B Tillett wrote: > I like the structure, and presumably you'd throw in the dates when that > position applied Yes. I just left it out because I wasn't sure of the details of how to code that data. I also wasn't sure if things like "United States" and "Arkansas" are strictly "geographic" in this sense (I'm a geographer, BTW; we're talking here technically about governmental bodies that administer a geographic territory). In any case ... > and then we could also extend that structure to > other corporate names (adding dates that apply for the changes to name) > and to "works" (uniform titles) for things like serials that change > titles over time ... sure. I think restructuring things a bit makes a lot of things easier. Bruce