Luella is right. Don't try to mess around with it but instead pay someone to retrieve it for you and do that before it gets written over. Somewhere in your system you have made a backup and a pro will find that. Cheers! Doreen =========== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Thomson via" <quebec-research@rootsweb.com> To: NORTHEAST-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com, Quebec-Beauhuntchat@rootsweb.com Cc: Quebec-research@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 9:47:28 AM Subject: [Q-R] Needing help !!! I am in desperate need of some help. I have been using Family Tree Make for many years & have my family's records/documents back to ca1600+/-. (@ least 2-3000 names shown there). I opened my file recently only to find that ALL had been deleted. I was totally devastated !!!!! I have tried everything that I can think of to get them back on my 'puter but w/no luck. Can anyone PLEASE offer suggestions My most sincere thank you in advance for your help. Bev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For the list web page, goto: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm And we are on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QRlist/ List Archives are at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/QUEBEC-RESEARCH ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-RESEARCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message