George, That really isn't that unusual. A lot of genie programs require you put nicknames in quotes as part of the given name. It all prints out the same. Of course, that's a major bummer for you since your genie program apparently a separate field just for nicknames. Look at the bright side: we doing a lot of French names with their infernal "dit" names, "noms de guerre" names, and "aka " and "de" names. It could be worse! Craig On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:24 AM, George W. Durman wrote: > > I just discovered that the nicknames I had for all the people in > the database I uploaded did NOT get transferred! In fact, there > is no place when manually entering a person to show his/her > nickname! You can't even use a "Custom event" because it > requires a date, place, event, and no place for just a name. > > So, when you add someone, and he/she has a nickname, please > add it to the given name and put it in quotes, e.g., James "Jim" > BROYLES. > > To kind of paraphrase what Sir Winston Churchill said about > democracy, "The shared database feature of Ancestry isn't > perfect, but it's the best we've got." > > Sarge