"Ron Mitchell" <ronnie@itol.com> wrote: > I discovered a bunch of phantoms that arrived on a downloaded >GEDCOM from the internet. > I discovered them when I did a Marriage List report and found better >than half of the first page was blank. Some genealogy programs allow you to enter siblings in a family with the parents unknown. FO does not allow you to enter siblings without a parent but, as you've seen, you can import that situation from a gedcom file. Even from an FO gedcom file if you include the siblings but not their parents. Unlinking the children from the unknown parents is not a good fix, for if there are two or more children in the family then they will no longer be shown to be siblings. A better fix is to highlight one of the children and add a father parent to the family. The father's surname will most likely be the same as the children and that's all the information you really need to have a parent record entered in FO to tie the siblings together. (FO works better if you have a real parent entered.) Wayne League