It sound like you are seeing your child records. Do you have a one to many relationship.

>>
>>This isn't what you want to hear, probably, but BROWSE has decreasing functionality in vfp. And I quote from Hacker's Guide:
>>
>>
>>"BROWSE has no place in applications..." - referring to vfp. "Use grids..."
>
>Bruce:
>
>Just for grins, I tried your suggestion. I simply created a grid on the locator window with the alias as the record source. Then I filter the records based on what the user entered, followed by a grid refresh. The result in the grid is the same. There are rows of asterisks between each of the expected rows.
>
>BTW, the table contains only 22 records for testing and none are deleted or contain unusual data.
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>Thanks!
>Tom.