I need help from the list: I am preparing part of my database for GEDCOM export and I have a problem: When I select Export for GEDCOM, I keep all program defaults, i.e. Standard GEDCOM Version 5.5 ANSEL Then I export the file. It readily creates the .ged file. I then decided to test this file with CFTW by importing it. When the import into my newly created database is finished, all people with no death date filled in is reported to be DEAD. This may go back to when I started with version 1.x (upgraded all along to present version 2.27) and Ira found that version 1.x made the "no date" entries as a "zero" value instead of a "null" value in my database. Ira had to correct version 2.23 through 2.26 to program around this. I need the REBUILD function to fix my "zero" dates to null (or was it vice versa?) or else I will be unable to export to .ged correctly. I can't be the only person who started with the early version of CFTW who has this problem. Since this probably requires a version update, and I need to export this file soon, does anyone have an alternative work-around? Karen Pastuzyn