Myra That's a shame. I had figured out how to do what I wanted by searching century by century and copying the results to Excel. I could then sort the data by name, parish and date to get what I wanted. Unfortunately, I don't think my eyes or wrists are up to doing the job for every name beginning with HUN. Michael is quite right, the OPC database only accepts % as a wildcard and no other operators (such as AND or OR). Unfortunately, Ivor's search should produce even more results than he has found so far, because an early spelling of the surname was HUN. Ivor