Hi Judith, Straighten this out? Probably not, but I can explain what we did. Per the Montgomery personal property tax list microfilm there are 2 book covers for the 1787 tax lists. The first book cover says "A". However there are 2 tax lists in this book. The first tax list is by Bird Smith. The second tax list is by David McGavock. The second book cover says "B" and there is only one tax list in this book. This tax list is by James Newell. In almost all cases there is only one tax list per book and each book has a handwritten letter to identify it as A, B, etc. The 1787 books are a bit different. What we did is use consecutive letters, starting with A, for all three lists, in the order that they are microfilmed. This results in us calling the Bird Smith list as A, the David McGavock list as B and the James Newell list as C (even though the book called this one B). By the way, there is no standardization for calling these lists A, B, etc. Someone wrote the letter designations after the book labels were type-written. We have noticed so many consectutive years where the A in one year is a B or C for the next year. What is really important is to know who the commissioner was and/or what district the tax list is for. We think it rather humorous that the only list without it's own cover, our B list, is the only list that Netti Schreiner-Yantis and ourselves have with the same letter assigned to it !! Steve and Bunny Binns Genealogy CD Series Scanned Microfilm Images on CD http://www.BinnsGenealogy.com/ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html