This is a brief report whose principal purpose is to summarize the present status of trigonometric parallaxes and to present the results of a new analysis of their errors. The review articles by Gliese, Strand, Upgren and Vasilevskis fully describe the methods used by investigators of parallax errors and their results; here we shall update the tabulation of the parallaxes and describe some recent results and conclusions. Although the pages on the left side of the most recent edition of the Yale Parallax Catalogue and its Supplement have been available in machine-readable form for years, the pages on the right side listing the individual parallax determinations by each observatory became similarly available only last year at the Van Vleck Observatory. Thus it has now become a simple matter to tabulate and analyze the parallaxes of each observatory separately without lengthy tabulation procedures being made by hand. One study has already been made from these data in which the frequency distribution of all trigonometric parallaxes in the Yale Catalogue was fit to a Gaussian distribution using a nonlinear least—squares procedure. This distribution is shown in Figure 1. The major conclusion was that the best estimate of the mean error of all of the parallaxes is about +0.”016, in agreement with a much simpler approach made by Hertzsprung. The large parallaxes did not affect the ability of the program to fit a Gaussian distribution to the smaller parallaxes.