I just had a look at the page in question and there are several places where the names and districts are on separate lines. Are all of these going to be treated in the way you suggest? It seems to me that *if* the district has been moved down one line because of a longish forename then to treat them as separate lines will be incorporating incorrect info into the database. Specifically, Walter James Warren's descendant will be thinking their ancestor was born in Kensington when he was *probably* born in Pancras. Would the use of "comment" lines be another option? Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *ORIGINAL MESSAGE* Hi Teri I see what you mean. Logically, you should move the 2 names down one line so that they line up with the rest of the information. However, you would be second guessing. My advice is to consider the 3 lines as three separate entries and to insert a "?" where the information is blank. In case anyone is confused by my response, the entries on the Index are thus. WARREN Walter Frederick WARREN Walter James Kensington 1a 159 Pancras 1b 128 i.e District,Vol and Page are missing on first line and Surname and Forename are missing on the third line Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gypsy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 29 October 2001 10:49 Subject: Can you help please Hi 1862B1-1344.tif has I believe 2 names out of place. Now usually we'd just enter them as is but I'm wondering if this is one of those anomalies. The names are WARREN Walter Frederick & WARREN Walter James. I'd appreciate your advice.