Database is 35000+ so doing this manually isn't an option. Database concerns ALL known descendants of X and Y, including a variant spelling of surname. I want a COUNT of all persons born with surname X + those born with surname Xprime. And then I want a count of how many of those are born between 1900 and 2005. When I ran the first filter, I got 1210 with X or Xprime. When I added the bd range 1900-2005, the count went up 1437, and included the original X b 1695. I didn't see other surnames in the results list, which I was afraid I might. I used as search criteria: surname X /OR/ surname Xprime /AND/ bd range So ... short of upgrading to a later v of PAF ... is there a way to make this do what I want? Or do I just dump the surname results into a csv and then into a spreadsheet? Thanks Cheryl

At 08:29 AM 5/31/2005 -0400, singhals wrote: >surname X >/OR/ >surname Xprime >/AND/ >bd range As written above, the bd range will only apply to the surname Xprime. To filter the bd range against both names you will need the have parentheses as follows: ( surname X /OR/ surname Xprime ) /AND/ bd range Richard Rands