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) About two years ago, I broke through one of my most difficult brick walls and realized that I have one line that appeared to have promise! Specifically, it appeared as if Simon Riegel (who was of German descent) was my fifth great-grandfather and that he served with the Pennsylvania Militia where he guarded those pesky Redcoats! I began to experience genealogical nirvana. Fortunately, that condition isn't fatal.
- there must be 100 gabazillion spellings of the surname, "Riegel" and easily three times that for "Steigerwalt!" When large online services such as Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org are thrown into the mix, the errors become so great that fact is often replaced with urban myth. For example, several million people currently claim to be researching Margaret (Reigel) Steigerwalt and yet it is nearly impossible to find anyone who correctly lists her name. Nearly everyone (millions of them) list her name as "Margaret Peggy Riegle [or Reigle, Reigel, Rigle, etc., etc.] and yet not a single primary source exists, anywhere, where her middle name appears as "Peggy." The problem (which is extremely obvious) is that "Peggy" is simply a nickname for Margaret! Records do exist that list her name as Peggy (Riegel) Steigerwalt, while others correctly list it as Margaret (Riegel) Steigerwalt. Geez! 
Many SAR and DAR applications also include the book as a source but, it's never accepted as evidence! (Why bother even trying?)
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In response to each suggestion/comment;
1. I had recently done a "Fix Broken Links" as my previous computer had died and my media files were in different folders (by surname). For some unknown reason, I had a fair number of broken links so I "fixed them" and made sure there weren't any broken ones before the backup.
2. I know I had duplicate files in other folders on a backup drive - especially since I last some other photos during the computer crash I had earlier.
3. I noticed on my laptop (which had the "restored" file) that some of the (2) and (3) extensions seemed to be the ones linked to my sources.
4. I believe I may have used "restore" when I first added RootsMagic to my new computer (several months ago) - I don't remember the exact procedure but I do know that my files are (or should have been) in individual folders by families (as I mentioned above).
At this point, I took notes of changes that needed to be made in my data while I was gone and added them, manually, to my file on my desktop. What do I need to do know to fix this situation? I'm still using my original file on my desktop. Until this is fixed, I really can't use backup and restore to use my data across different computers. Of course, the easiest solution would be for Rootsmagic to allow us to read/write data on the cloud that can be accessed from different devices (hint, hint).
