>However - I often want the option to very quickly search a person by >given name. I have been listening to these types of requests and my plans for CFT-Win are this: An index is created for ALL surnames and the given name of each person in the database. The New NameSearch allows you to select search by: Normal Surname, Multiple Surname, and Given Name - or ALL. Thus a person such as .. Ingeborg /Olsdotter/ Brandal ... perhaps should be entered as... Ingeborg /Olsdotter Brandal/ ...then the names get indexed as: Normal: Olsdotter Brandal, Ingeborg MultiSurname: Brandal, Olsdotter, Ingeborg Given: Ingebord Olsdotter Brandal So now if we include both the patronymic AND the farm name as a surname (for Scandanavian Genealogy) then we can search on patronymic, farm name and given - or even all three at once. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com