I see you have received some excellent suggestions on the types of information many of us place in the Description field. Perhaps a little bit of background will further assist you in understanding the field. In versions prior to FTM 2008, a fact had two fields allowing the user to enter information. The date field and the Comment/Location field. The Comment/Location field actually served two purposes. The primary purpose was to record "where" the event or fact occurred. This was the "Location" section of the field. You could also enter any additional information you wanted to record as a "comment". Both types of information could be entered into the same field. To distinguish between the different types of information, you could separate them using a slash, "/". Anything before the slash was considered a comment anything after the slash was considered a location or place. Most of us being rather lazy, only entered a slash if we were entering both a comment and a location together. If no slash is found, the program considers everything as a location. Many people found this to be very confusing and kept demanding the two types of information each have a separate field. So when the program was rewritten in FTM 2008, the two fields were separated into Place and Description. This separation and the miss use of the slash has caused a number of people, me included, to experience some rather unusual "unresolved" place names. FTM 2012 has some tools to assist you in correcting these errors by exchanging the information into the proper field. You have to examine the information and determine which field it should be in. There is another new feature or concept which may cause you some initial confusion. All facts can have a Date, Place and Description; however, certain facts are commonly thought to have only one type of information - the Description. For example, Occupation, Degree, Education, Caste, etc. As a result, FTM 2012 has defaulted to only showing the Description field. If you are like me, you may want to qualify some of these facts by including the Date and Place. To display these additional fields, you will need to change the Fact Label Properties. There are several ways of doing this. 1. The more general way is to Click Edit, then select Manage Facts. Select a fact label and then Click Properties. You will see the options you have for each fact. Select the option you want. 2. You can also do this in the People, Person work area. Select a Fact Label and Click the right mouse button. Select Properties and again make your choice. I hope this helps with your understanding of the new program. While it does take some time to learn where to do what, I find it very flexible as there are generally 2 - 4 ways of doing the same thing. It just takes a little getting used to the flexibility of the program and cleaning up you data. Take you time. Figure out what you want to do. If you can't find the technique, feel free to ask and someone will probably be able to guide you. BJ On 10/22/2011 8:41 AM, Desmond McDowell wrote: > My question: the "Description" field below the place name field, what is > this for.?