The following programs import your dates exactly as you enter them, and/or print entire families of ancestors with multiple marriages instead of assuming you only want certain spouse and children known, in an ancestor report. I have found that it is amazing what the existence of choices does for product developers when all intelligence, common sense, and ability to listen to customers fail. PAF, PAF Companion, Legacy, Roots Magic, Ancestral Quest, The Master Genealogist, adn The Complete Genealogical Reporter (a utility), all import your dates from your GEDCOM or database exactly as you entered them and leave them unaltered, no matter what you entered. The Complete Genealogical Reporter truncates whatever date text exceeds a certain length, but it does leave "abt 1835" and standard dual dates alone. In addition, he seems reasonable and to want to please, so I asked him if he could please lengthen that field. Two utilities that work with your GEDCOM; Brother's Keeper and The Complete Genealogical Reporter, include all the children of all the marriages of each ancestor in ancestor reports. Brother's Keeper makes you add spacing and bold text and font changes, but that goes alot faster than having to cut and paste in the missing information from all your French Canadian families with multiple marriages and then end up with no index! Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006