Recently while I was working on my Sayles family.. I went threw a bunch of old notes to put into my computer program.. I had lost everything on my computer a while back.. and thinking since I know back up is important.. I had nothing to worry about because I do and did back up all my information... Well surprize.... my backup somehow got messed up too .. so needless to say... I wanted to cry.. 5 years of work.. down the tubes.. I had nothing on my computer anymore.. starting from scratch...Well lucky for me.. I keep everything.. even little notes that mostly don't mean anything to me when I look back on them.. but i won't throw them away.. because I know there was a reason I wrote the notes... Well since I lost everything... I decided to go threw all of these miles of paper work.. and also try to organize....( another one of my bad points.).... In the begining of my research 5 years ago.. I didn't know what I was doing.. of course .. it was new to me... but I copied or wrote any and all info that I found on any of my research names.. Not knowing if they connected or not... but I kept it all... well this past couple of weeks.. I have been going threw all these papers.. and have found that tons of info that i disregarded in the beginning.. now have major connections to me...like the fact that for a short time.. my grandfather was a fireman in Detroit... and many many addresses that I now realize after talking to so many relatives.. were actually addresses that my grandparents had lived... complete addresses....and many many more things.. about great aunts and uncles who i didn't realize were great aunts and uncles at the time... It was amazining some of the info I had stashed away in drawers and piles . My point being.. even if it doesn't connect today... keep it... (I know so much paper work and so little places to keep it... ) but somewhere down the line.. 2 or 5 or 10 years it might just be very important to you.... Happy Hunting... Cheryl researching: Sayles, Waivada, Thorne, Lipinski, McKissick, Gardner, Watson, Hodges, Barrow, Griswold, Hardy, O'Daniel, Radzevicuis, See, Skinner