This email is to advise everyone to regularly back up their data on a different drive or onto a cd, at least once a week. I bought a new 40 gb drive three months ago and transferred everything to it, at the same time I also bought a cd burner and thankfully copied important files, documents, photos, emails, family history backups onto a cd. About a week ago, I had the misfortune of having my new computer drive crash, therefore losing the past few months work. Thankfully I had the backup on cd (but alas this was done early August) and I still have the original reference from some of my recent research, and I was lucky that I did a printout out at the end of September on the family lines I was working on. But I still have to re-type and re-enter this data. I would appreciate anyone who has been in contact with me and has sent me any information since July 2002, please get back to me. Also if anyone is expecting a reply from me, please re-send. Regards Alan Alan.Eade@bigpond.com Alan Eade