Well, it finally happened to me. My PAF database with all of the unconnected Breedlove lines has crashed. I was making a daily records check and for some reason the program disconnected every child from every family, so now I have 1500 families with no children, just parents. No information was lost and the program did spit out a 50 page list by family number showing the RIN number and name for every child that it removed from the family. Now I have to go back and re-attach all of the children and it is going very slowly. Of course I don't believe in backups except a once a month copy to my server which I haven't done in several months since upgrading my motherboard because my network card won't work in this configuration. The main Breedlove database is now approaching 10,000 descendants of Charles & Mary Parr Breedlove. In the mean time I am slowly working on the 1860 Breedlove Index. One major correction to the 1850 Index is the male Francis listed in Madison Co., IL. This has to be a mistake in the sex column and should be Frances nee Ford, widow of Milton Breedlove who died in Madison Co., VA in 1828. Milton is the son of John Breedlove RWS and Margaret Vawter. Frances is living in 1850 in the household of James Leach who married Mary Ann Breedlove, dau of Milton and Frances. The 1860 index shows her still in Madison Co., IL which I will copy tomorrow. This research becomes more discouraging of late. It has always been my goal since starting this some 30 years ago, to document the children of William & Mary Watts Breedlove, and that of Thomas & Sarah Broaddus Breedlove. An 1890's book attributed 13 children to William but we have never been able to identify that 13th child. A recent discovery of another tombstone near to William and Mary had me hoping, but it turned out to be a young son of Nathan & Sarah Gregory Breedlove. At least I have had some luck with William's son Ira who married Patience Harris. We knew she came from a large family, but could only identify one sister. Through the Internet I located (by chance in answerring a query on a related family in Kentucky) information on the parents of Patience which led me to a book right here in the library that I have been going to every Saturday for 30 years, that gave the complete Bible record for the parents and 12 children. It's been right under my nose for 30 years but I just didn't know where to look. Better close and get back to rebuilding the families. Tom King