Hi Sandy. Once you have merged someone, that record is lost, gone, zippo!!! You cannot get it back without restoring from a backup. That is what they are talking about. Richard Rands At 07:26 PM 2/16/2005 -0500, Sandy Rozhon wrote: >Just prior to running the match/merge tool in PAF, a little window >comes up telling you to backup your file because you may lose some >people. Can someone tell me under what circumstances this loss will >occur? I've been matching and merging like crazy and really haven't >seen anything get lost, so I'm wondering what would make that happen? > >Sandy > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/