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 My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html