I had the same thing happen in my Family Orgins program. But, thank goodness, I have a habit of using different programs and files and I Gedcom between them. Thus, all I have to do is Gedcom back. What I don't like is that by putting "Living" in the space for the name, for some reason, it disconnected the entry from the parents, thus fouling up my pedigree chart. Now when I open up the program, all it shows is the entry for "Living" and there is no connection to my parents, who are dead! There was a connection when I changed my name and my brother and all his children's names to "Living" but there's nothing there now. We 're just a bunch of disconnected individuals. Any suggestions? Mae Mae Talbott Hagerstown, MD tmtalbott@juno.com On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 08:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Marie Judes <mrsjudes@yahoo.com> writes: > I privatized my FTM file (version 9) to upload,after UNCHECKING the > privatization, I saved the file, then when I went back into it the > next > night all living individuals were PRIVATE. My backup file is the > same > way. How do I restore my info????? Years of research lost..... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, MJ > > ===== > Marie Judes > mrsjudes@yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > The Baltgen-L list focuses on GENEALOGY research for > Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Harford, and Howard Cos. MD > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

There are several programs that 'clean' or privitize gedcom's. I've used GedPrivy and it works well, though a bit labor-intensive. With most of them, you create your gedcom, run the program and save the results as a new and separate gedcom, which is probably what you should do when using any program - have two separate files; one private and one not. GedPrivy http://hometown.aol.com/gedprivy/index.html GedClean http://www.raynorshyn.com/gedclean/ Gedcom Utilities http://www.rootsweb.com/~gumby/ged.html Res Privata http://members.ozemail.com.au/~naibor/rpriv.html Gedcom's to Go http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4849/evb/ ===== Kathi Jones-Hudson MD Tombstone Transcription Project Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/maryland.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com