So many posts are warning people away from Access + Legacy that a few examples of how it can be used might be welcome. As always, back it up and experiment on a copy. Suppose you are trying to match a census record for John Doe with wife Mary. In one step in Access you can find all the John Doe's married to Marys, and for that matter, all Mary's born between 1820 and 1830 and married to John's who have no birth dates. Suppose for the last several months you have been inadvertently adding people born prior to 1900 as living, and they are now scattered all over the database. You can find them and quickly change them to not living in Access. Suppose you want to tag all people for whom the source detail contains a particular phrase. Easy to do in Access. In Legacy you can find them using Search> Search and Replace, but you can't tag them. In general, Access is useful for complex searches that are difficult or impossible in Legacy, and also to edit quickly a large number of records that in Legacy you'd have to find, navigate to the appropriate screen and do individually. You do have to know you know enough not to mess things up, but you certainly don't need to know a lot about relational databases or visual basic. I don't! Jonathan
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