QUALIFICATIONS OF THE AUTHOR        

	My father Keith Parkinson worked 30 years as an investigator and as the first Questioned Document Examiner for the State of Idaho.  He was also one of the leading instructors in the field of Questioned Document work and sat on the Board of Directors for the World Association of Document Examiners.
  	My mother a Document Examiner as well, was also a handwriting Expert for 12 years.  Being raised by two experienced instructors allowed me to learn both of these fields of study at a very rapid pace.  I soon became the youngest court qualified Document Examiner in America.  By the time I turned 19 years of age I had worked well over 50 criminal and civil cases.  
	From 1979 to 1993 it was my primary job as a Document Examiner to make comparisons and determine if documents whether handwritten or typed had been tampered with in any way, and also determine if questioned handwriting was genuine or not.  In many cases I had to testify in court for the dead party who had written a family will, upon later, was questioned by a fellow family member.  I had the unique opportunity to work criminal cases as an apprentice under my father who headed up the Questioned Document Department for the Bureau of Investigations in Boise, Idaho.  For eight years I also handled civil and criminal cases in a private practice.  
	Studying for long periods of time and paying close attention to details is required as a Document Examiner.  I was hired primarily by attorneys for my letter of opinion concerning the authenticity behind particular questioned handwriting and the authenticity behind the questioned document itself.  By the time I joined (the World Association of Document Examiners) in the late 1980's, I had worked over 135 criminal and civil cases under the supervision of my father.  The advantage of using a Questioned Document Examiner is that the Examiner is trained not to have a vested interest or an association with any party concerning the questioned subject matter.  The Examiner needs to think independent from all other predisposed minds and concentrate for long periods of time on making comparisons.  Religious Scribes and Scholars are subject to personal institutional beliefs and payroll checks derived from the same institutions and are not professionally trained in spurious writings and spurious tamperings.  Their field of expertise is essential to understanding literal translations, interpretations and transliterations of scripture. 
	One of the unusual courses I was forced to take involved Handwriting Analysis founded by Milton N. Bunker in 1929.  This controversial system, known as Grapho-Analysis, uses stroke analysis to provide insight into personality traits and the evaluation of a writer’s personal mental tendencies.  Theoretically a person writes with their mind and not with their hand.   All of us that write, leave habitual strokes across a page that are peculiarly characteristic to ourselves.  These peculiarities differentiate us from most other authors.  When found in sufficient numbers, these peculiarities become identifying similarities.  These strokes are primarily caused by the mind and the eye working together in conjunction causing subconscious habitual memory.  I found that learning this handwriting technique was valuable as a Document Examiner because this system devoted alot of time and energy in training the eye and mind toward identification purposes.  So even though Questioned Document work is completely different from the study of Grapho-Analysis, they both share an intense study on the strokes made by authors for identification purposes. 
	In the early 1970s my father was asked to work on a particular section of The Dead Sea Scrolls.  I was very young at that time, but I was fascinated by looking at the handwriting of a particular scroll, thousands of years old, in my fathers examination room.  Later when I was much older and qualified, as part of my training process, my father asked me to work on this same section of the Dead Sea Scrolls that he had worked 15 years prior.  I was given an exact duplicate copy to work on and was given the same question posed to my father.  “How many authors are involved on this particular section of the Dead Sea Scroll submitted, if any? ”    
	 
	Unlike religious biblical Scholars, Document Examiners are taught not to have predisposed beliefs or affiliations with religious parties concerning the examination of documents.  Using this approach I am ultimately providing the reader a non-atheistic, non-Christian, non-Catholic, non-Jewish and non-Islamic opinion.  So by providing a non-religious qualified opinion, the reader can be assured that the opinions rendered inside are without dogmatic influence.  I can then appeal to minds predisposed toward logic, rather than religious or atheistic influence.