Russ, Thanks for the fast response. Perhaps I'm missing something or doing something wrong, but the people at the top of the index when I sort on "Family, Given Name" all have surnames. When I sort on "Given Family Name" and scroll down from the top of the list I come to a place where there are nine different listing for the name Elizabeth, all of them different people and none of them having surnames, as they are unknown to me at this time. Jim From: H R Worthington [mailto:rworthington@att.net] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 10:04 AM To: Jim Hoke; ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Searching for blank surnames Jim, People Workspace, Tree View, in the Index. They should be at the top of the list with only Given Names showing. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net _____ From: Jim Hoke via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: FTM-TECH mailing list submission <FTM-TECH@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:43 AM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Searching for blank surnames BJ, 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.