>I believe many of us use some kind of symbol either after the surname, >before the surname or after or before the given name.  These are easily >seen in the list of children when going "backwards". And if you send a >report to someone, they can also easily see your line.  Unlurking again, for a moment.... Although I think this is a super idea to highlight an ancestral line, it is totally ineffective if I want to change the root person -- say, to run a report for my cousin and have her as the root person. That is why I think it would be great to have the program know the correct ancestor line from whichever person is listed as the root. I liked the idea of marking the ancestors pink and blue on the screen so you could immediately see the line - especially in the family view screen. However, additionally, I would like a mark to be included on a printed family group sheet - something like an X or an * in front of the name of, or perhaps bolding the name of the ancestor when they are listed as the child on their parent's sheet. I do much of my research from printed family group sheets and it is a royal pain to try to remember who the ancestor is when I am searching. It's also a royal pain to go through FG sheets with a highlighter. Anyway - I would want the marking to be generated based on who is the root person at the time of printing. Other ideas -- I also work a lot with other's GEDCOMS. I import them into new databases and fiddle around with them for a while and eventually delete the whole thing when I'm done. I run into quite a lot of annoyances (not problems - just slow things) that I would like to see improved. 1. When opening the "import GEDCOM" screen, I would like the file tree to "remember" the folder to which I last had it opened. I have an elaborate file system and usually have to trace through the same six or eight folders just to get to where I store the GEDCOMS. This is a pain when I'm trying to import 4 or 5 of them into my new database for playing privileges. It would be nice if it remembered the location after I find it the first time. 2. I use the Global search and replace feature a lot, mostly to change surnames from all Caps to Upper/Lower case. I hate all cap surnames. SO.....one of two suggestions here.... I would like for the Global Search feature to stay open after executing a change so that I can then select another change without having to go to the menu and get the tool each time. OR...how about some gizmo that would turn all cap surnames back into Upper/Lower case? I know that would still foul up the occasional name (ie. LaFlamme would become Laflamme) but it would be easier to fix the abherrent names than to fix the whole list the way I like it. 3. This is a housekeeping plea: Maybe I'm missing something that's already available, so let me know if I'm smoking my socks, or something... Referring to new databases generating those 34 little files that start with the name of the database, as well as all the LST files for all the GEDCOMS that get opened -- When I'm done with my newly created databases, I have to delete all these other little files along with my database when I'm trashing it. I would like for a database to create a folder for itself to hold all these little files so I can just click on the folder to delete all that stuff, or alternately, when I click on the database to delete it, could it "know" to automatically clean up all the related files that go with it? This may sound like a silly request but I often have 5 or 6 new databases including 30 or more new GEDCOMS that I work with in an evening. This creates a big pile of stuff that I need to weed through for deleting and hope I get it all without deleting the wrong things, too. Kinda scary when I'm already bleary-eyed from staring at a computer all day. Some questions: Someone recently mentioned something related to this that caught my eye but I've lost track of the information. I would like to have my wall chart printed out on one large sheet of paper rather than my having to tape 24 sheets of letter paper together. I know my local Kinko's has a huge printer that would do this but I need to know how I could create a file (what kind of file?) to give them that they could print. I know they don't have a clue what a GEDCOM is because I've asked that before, so I know they don't have any sort of genealogy software loaded. (The fools! If they only knew the business they'd get!) Anyway - any ideas on how to create this, or if it is even possible for them to read the data file for a wall chart? Thanks so much Bruce for this WONDERFUL program! I've been around since V4 and I can't believe I held on to that for several years before "daring" to make the move over from PAF! hahaha! I originally bought it just to get some "fancier" reports than PAF produced. I haven't ever looked back since I got fully functional in FO. I LOVE this program! Okay, I'm done talking, for now... :) Susan Lund