so am out of words, literally. but besides contact person what else would you name your table that contains names birthdates and other basic individual information?

icemonster,

Call me old-fashioned, but it sounds like you're describing human beings, otherwise known as "people"...

tblPeople
PersonID [Autonumber, Primary Key]
strFirstName
strLastName
strMiddleName
dteBirthdate
etc.

Hope this helps,

Dennis

would you use it for logging in purposes? just for email type stuff?

what you actually call the table, in my opinion. just has to mean something to you and others who may take over the DB.

You could use. TBLUserInformation

I have a table tblusernames as well as a table called tblauthorizedusers

I am sure you will get as many different suggestions as you get replies.

thanks for the replies but just that i ran out of terminology

Demographics.

Sounds like the kind of day we all have from time to time. "One of those days".

But it looks like you have some good suggestions to work with.

again, thanks! but yeah one of those days.