--- On Fri 08/26, Gene < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

>BE Kelly wrote:

>> That is exactly the case, If you have not entered either an alt given 
>> name or an alternate surname the field does not exist. (This is the 
>> way relational data bases work, the link between a person and an 
>> alternate name is in a separate table and only people with alternate 
>> names have entires in that table. That saves storage space since only 
>> those people with alt. names use the storage apace for an alt name and 
>> that is how you can enter more than one alternate name for the same 
>> person, it is just an extra entry in the alternate name table.)

>Bingo!

>I knew that but failed to connect it to the current problem. Sherry, 
>disregard my last reply. 


Any reasonable program should be able to search on a NULL link ID.

Steve


>Gene


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