>The "Living" flag can be unchecked if you only know that a person has died, but if no further information is known about that person's death then all the information fields for the DEAT event will be blank. The "Living" flag is correctly handled for "empty" DEAT events in the "chart" type reports - if the flag is unchecked (deceased) then the line is present and simply reads "Death:", whereas if the flag is checked (living) then that line is blank - Thus showing that the person is alive or dead even though there is no further information to report. In the HTML output and other reports, where "blank" or "empty" events are suppressed, an unchecked living flag (deceased) does NOT cause the DEAT event to appear (albeit with no data). In other words, if the living flag is unchecked then otherwise "empty" DEAT events should be considered "non-empty". The same applies to the "story" (both screen and report). If the DEAT event is "non-blank" then the story reads "Name died <some dat! >a>.". If the DEAT event is "empty" and the flag is unchecked (deceased) then that sentence does NOT appear at all. I feel in this case the story should still read "Name died." - i.e. exactly the same wording, just with no data. Ok. Let me think about these issues and see what I can do. Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043