Just spotted a query on the FMP Feedback forum that leads into an interesting discovery. Well, it was interesting to me... The context was searching BMD for people with events in St. Albans. It turns out that one dataset is indexed as "St. Albans" and another is indexed as "St Albans" *without" the period. If you enter just "Albans", the way the BMD are searched, you'll get both versions. This, of course, could apply to any compound place-name that includes a contraction. Of course, those of you with interests in such areas may already do the equivalent of searching on "Albans" already and I'm way behind the times! Adrian B