You are welcome, Emily.

Gracious and courteous as always even with little details like this. 
We'd all do good by following your example and act as if there is a
person behind each other's monitor and keyboard!  

Victor


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia" 
wrote:
> Victor,
> 
> Thanks for that last tip.  That will save me lots of time if I can
avoid getting that message about "if you only enter a last name, you
must not enter another field"  or something to that effect.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA  -----
> 

Is anyone here old enough to remember a book published in 1959 
titled "Nine Days to Christmas", by Marie Hall Ets, illustrated by 
Aurora Labastida? Ms. Labastida was awarded the 1960 Caldecott Award 
for her illustrations.
It is about the nine days of posadas in Mexico. One of my favorites.

Natalie Coleman, VA

I just attended the posada on Olvera Street this past Christmas, so the 
tradition is still alive, even in the United States.  I have a 
childhood friend who has started hosting a posada at Christmas time 
among her friends (who are all Chicanos) and their kids.

We used to get together with a very large group of family and friends 
as kids in San Gabriel, California for the Posada every Christmas.  If 
I remember correctly, it was done for several days, because I remember 
families taking turns at hosting.  There were always bags of goodies 
for the kids after the ritual of parading and asking for shelter.. and 
champurrado.

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long" 
 wrote:
> 
> In the early 50's they did a Posada at the Catholic church in our 
> town, Stockton Ca. that had the largest Mexican population.  My 
> brother and cousin were both 5 years old and recruited to be 'Indios" 
> for the Posada which was made up of children only.  We still laugh

Angie,

I found that the percentage sign does act as a wildcard, at least in
some instances.  For example if you enter a last name and want to
apply a filter in Events, and/or Year Range and/or State, if you leave
the First Name field blank you'll get an arror message.  But doing
that same query with "%" in the First Name field you'll get back a
recordset.  Have I saved my honor? -- jk -- ;-)  

Victor

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "aajay1073"  wrote:
> Victor,
> 
> Too funny...when I started working on my family tree in 1998, I did 
> create my own program, which I still use today.  But my program 
> doesn't do all the fancy charts and reports.  So I was going to add 
> that to my program when I found the PAF program.  I liked the reports 
> and tools in that program so instead of adding that functionality to 
> my own program, I created a tool to convert the data in my program to 
> a GED file and I then import it into a PAF file.  All this probably 
> sounds