It is so simple. Every time you input any marriage, set the woman up with an alternate name. The first thing you have to do is click the name search "options" button, and check the first item on the pop-up list -- "Include Alternate Names." For every married woman I input whose nee surname is unknown, I don't use "Unknown" or leave the surname field blank. I enter each with her husband's surname bracketted, thus: Mary (Smith). So, for each married woman: set her up with her nee Surname, and with an alternate (Surname). When you wish to locate these women, use the namelist search feature. There are radio-buttons for the name search boxes. You have the choice of "Equal," "Starts," or "In." Check the "In" button, and only include a distinctive segment of the required surname. The search list that results will include every woman using that combination of letters in either her surname or her alternate (surname). All the bracketted surnames will appear at the top of the list, and will have tildes indicating that they are alternates. To limit your search to include only the married women of that (surname), check the "Begins" radio-button, and enter the surname using: opening bracket+initial+... . It'll take you a few extra seconds each time you input a marriage, but you'll then have the capacity to search exactly as you wish. Patricia >>Please, how do I set up a search for all the women who >> married, for >>example, BLAKEWAYs in my database? I can find/list all >> their >>husbands, but if I want to find someone whose married >> name is Betty >>Blakeway when I don't know which of 75 BLAKEWAYs she >> married, how do >>I set up the search?

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:38:02 -0700 (MST), software@yellowknife.com wrote: >It'll take you a few extra seconds each time you input a >marriage, but you'll then have the capacity to search >exactly as you wish. Or just buy yourself a copy of GenViewer for $19.95. Beats entering 10,000 AKAs. ;-) -- Dennis Kowallek kowallek@iglou.com ******************