Hi Leon, Disregard if you've already tried this: I have not upgraded to the newest version of FTM, but perhaps this might work for you --- if the functionality is still there: >From the menu bar, choose Contents Custom If you have a very large database, this may take a few moments to come up. I have 25,000+ and it took about a minute for the program to go through its Sort process. Once the report is on-screen, from the menu bar again choose Contents, then choose Items to Include in Report. You should get a pop-up box which lists all of the Available Items on the left, and items currently on display on the right. When finished, click OK. Next, choose Format from the menu bar then choose Sort Report. You get another pop-up box which allows you to choose two sort items. For your needs, you would choose Name in the upper box, then Birth Date in the lower. Click OK. Not as quick as using the Index of Individuals, but a work-around nonetheless. Regards, Deb O'Reilly Midlothian, Virginia USA A&NESFHS #13005 WorldConnect at Rootsweb/Ancestry.com: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dcoreilly Researching the Grassick and related families of Aberdeenshire ------------------------------ Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:03:00 -0600 From: "Leon O Kearns" <lokearns@marktwain.net> Subject: [ABERDEEN] FTM 2010 To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <EA901BC1CA3F448AB839FE873C80B74D@MAIN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" If you open up People at the top of the page and then look at the area where it says Index: XXXXX and to the left is a small house and next to that is three lines with a very tiny arrow. Click on that and a dropdown will allow you to list how you want them displayed ie, by birth, or death, or marriage. I have used FTM since the company that developed it in eastern Iowa put it on the market. I had to upgrade from FTM 11.0 after upgrading to Win 7 because I could not print a report. I still have my old FTM 11.0 on my harddrive so if I think I have a need to check something I can go back to it. Leon