Occasionally, names do not seem to sort properly in the Alphabetic Browse list. What can I do?
This problem does not affect your actual data — this is a problem only with a temporary alphabetic index file. The quickest fix for this problem is to delete this temporary file, thus forcing Ancestry Family Tree to rebuild it. To do this, follow these steps: • Record the location and name of your database, for example, “c:\ancestry family tree\data\myfile.aft”. • Close Ancestry Family Tree. • Use Windows® Explorer or My Computer to locate the folder containing the database, in this example “c:\ancestry family tree\data”. • Locate the temporary alphabetic index file. If you are using a database with the ‘.aft’ extension, you are looking for a file of the same name with a ‘.afa’ extension, and possibly also a file with a ‘.afx’ extension. If you are using a database with the ‘.paf’ extension, you want to find files with the same name and a ‘.paa’ or ‘.pa2’ extension, and possibly also a file with a ‘.pax’ extension. In this example, you are looking for ‘myfile.afa’ and ‘myfile.afx’. If
