Hi: I go to major efforts to send gedcoms that don't include my generation or below. Here is an article in an Eastman Online Newsletter that approaches that PRIVACY problem. It is dated July 1998 but is still apropo. The best part - it is FREEWARE. Mr. Eastman gives permission at the end of his newsletters to copy his articles as long as we give his newsletter the credit. Nan ===================================== >From Dick Eastman's Online Geneal. Newsletter July 1998 GEDCLEAN by AFSkybelle (EDITOR'S NOTE: With all the discussion about the availability of GEDCOM on the internet and issues of right to privacy of living individuals, AFSKybelle's research provides some timely advice!) I looked at the Web site for the GEDClean program. The GEDClean home page is: http://members.aol.com/tomraynor2/gedclean.htm Tom Raynor, the author of the program states: "GEDClean is an attempt to automate the process of 'cleaning' the personal information about living individuals from a GEDCOM file containing genealogical data. "If you share genealogical data with other people, you very often save it in GEDCOM format so that other people or programs can use it. But if you are sharing it with strangers, especially if you are putting it somewhere that anyone on the Web can access it, you will probably make your living relatives very unhappy if you include personal details about them. "So, you need a way to 'clean' all that personal data out of your GEDCOM file before you send it or convert it to HTML. That's where GEDClean comes in. "GEDClean is FREEWARE "GEDClean is Copyrighted software that, with few limitations, may be used without charge; in other words, freeware. More information is available in the Help file included with the program. But basically, you should not sell this product. You can share it, if you keep all the original files together, unchanged, but you should not charge anyone for it (beyond any reasonable copying expense reimbursement.)" AFSKybelle continues: At Cyndi's Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit site http://www.cyndislist.com/construc.htm, she lists 4 programs that will do about the same thing. I haven't checked the others. 1. GEDClean http://members.aol.com/tomraynor2/gedclean.htm 2. GEDLiving http://www.rootsweb.com/~gumby/ged.html 3. GEDPrivy http://members.aol.com/gedprivy/index.html 4. Res Privata http://www.ozemail.com.au/~naibor/rpriv.html ============================================