Nested style: everything preceeded by 3 spaces needs to be italicized

I'm doing a directory for a church. I got my nested style sheet to place a rule before each entry and to bold the family name. At the end of each listing, the children in each family are listed. I created a nested style for the names. I tried defining the nested style as through 3 spaces but that italicizes everything except the family name. How do I use nested style to see the three spaces through hard return and italicize everything in between?
Screen shot with tabs and spaces. The very first entry (Ainsle family) is how it should look.
Thanks in advance for your help.
[screen shot removed by host per Richard's request]

Richard,
You're a little confused about this.
First, do NOT worry about putting the em space after the names. Just do a Replace All to change instances of three spaces to an em space. (I'm assuming you didn't put three spaces anywhere else.)
At the end of the nested styles, you want to apply None up to the first em space.
Then you want to apply the character style italic until the end of the paragraph which you can define as the end nested style here character.
That should be all you need.
However, I noticed that you've got an error in the listing for Kevin Alexander and Julie Hansen. The rule underneath their names is wrong.
Finally, you ought to think a second before posting an image on the web with people's real names, addresses, emails, home and work phones, etc.
If it is possible to revoke that image, do it now!

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