On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:46:23 -0400, "Jack Bowman" <jack@bluenet.net> compossed this messsge using a keyboard type contraption: >A while back (starting maybe 3 years ago) I had "Exactly" the same type of >problem(s). People married to the wrong people, dates turning up in the >wrong place (every birth was one generation off). Rebuild would not work to >correct the problem(s). The only solution was to run a gedcom export. Years >ago I passed this info onto Ira and he did try to assist me. Ira was able to >repair my data base at least twice when I couldn't get anything to work >right. BUT now to today. My rebuilds will NOT work, the Gedcom export runs >into problems and will not import properly, data will not go into the proper >place. Ira tried to clear it up but said I had some sort of a corrupted data >base. After so many problems I would back up after entering small groups of >data. Now when I run the restore I get that the restore didn't work >properly. So with about 17,000 names I have an almost useless data base. >Luckily I had squirreled away a backup at 16,000 that appears to work-but >then I'm afraid to try. I'm glad to know I wasn't imagining it but now I'm sorta worried.<G> I found these problems by "accident". I've tried to jump around and find the problems again but none have occured so far. Hopefully by deleting the "corrupted fields", then re-entering, then running rebuild, the problem is fixed....I hope... Mr.T (Tracy Schell) from The Sunshine State. Visit my Homepage at: http://bbs.mpcs.com/~tschell Also visit my churches webpage at: http://www.geocities.com/~ncccfl My Genealogy Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4995