The formats which can be used are shown in http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Format.shtml , unless I'm mistaken +BLANK isn't one of the recognised formats hence why the system didn't understand +BLANK. You be well advised to use *,*,*,* etc to represent the missing information in the two lines. Allan Raymond Dralphne@aol.com wrote: We have a batch of 600+ entries, and are trying to upload it to you. We had to enter +BLANK at lines 4 and 86 because we were unable to read these lines. On trying to send, we get the message Upload Failed - didn't understand +BLANK in lines 8 and 90. Please advise. Ralph Hill. Allan Raymond Monarchies of Europe Web Site at http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm)