Have you tested this? When I entered a given name only, it sorted in the index sorting based upon the alphabetic sort among the surnames. E.g. Entered an unrelated individual with James as the Given name. It was displayed in the index thusly: Jackson, Steve Jackson, Susannah James James, Leota Jaquis, Martha BJ On 2/23/2015 8:04 AM, H R Worthington via wrote: > Jim, > > People Workspace, Tree View, in the Index. They should be at the top of the list with only Given Names showing. > > > > ________________________________ > Jim Hoke wrote: > > Your comment in The Great Debate about FTM 2014's handling of people's names > triggered me to wonder how one can search on surname. > > Specifically, my question is how does one find all the people in an ftm file > for whom the surname is blank (that is, it has not been entered)? I've > searched without luck the FTM-TECH archives for an answer.