As I was going through some of these problems I noticed that if you use a nick name that it showed up in the index as an alternate name, whereas if you typed the nick name in parenthesis in the name line it did not. For what it is worth Em -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pat McGrath via Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:29 PM To: 'RootsMagic Users List ' Subject: [RMagic] 5 of SAME person/couple showing !!!!! HELP! I think I've gone back and restored to a GOOD database, but no idea what I did the break my original one!!!! All was well (as far as I know) when I backed up late last night. Always start by doing a 'restore' in the morning . then started adding info and making corrections to Nelson and Emma. Emma has a possible different name so added an 'alt name' .. Nelson appeared to be a dup so merged him with the other Nelson w/no wife. In my original database Nelson was #9218 .. Suddenly switching to a pedigree view I noticed I have 5 GENERATIONS of Nelson & Emma ---- each being the parents of Nelson and not just NELSON himself . hope you can picture that pedigree! Suddenly Nelson is now #10214. Created a gedcom and imported it to a new database .. Still 5 GENERATIONS of them . Nelson now #10139. Had no error messages doing the gedcom and no problem (it appeared) in importing that gedcom .. Would assume it was not corrupt based on that! Restored last night's backup again ... ONLY one NELSON & EMMA and Nelson is #9218 ...... Cautiously think I'm ok except for losing 2 hours of entering from this morning, but can anyone tell me WHAT HAPPENED and/or what I DID ????? Pat =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message