I have recieved so many good clues and interesting facts I would have never found if I hadn't accessed other people's research notes. Some of these were notes from long dead relatives whose own children were not the least bit interested in "Genealogy". I am grateful that they had the sense to donate their notes to the Salt Lake library. Where else would I have found them ? I am not sure why people are afraid to have their gedcoms changed into Baptisms for the dead by the Mormon church if they dont believe they would be effficacious. What does it matter? So don't send in the Ged coms, but at least leave your notes to the library at your death. Or Leave them to some repository for manuscripts. If you do the latter ,they will be harder to find,although there are Catalogues for such things. ( and probably some Compulsive Obsessive future genealogists would eventually find it) It would be a lot easier to find if it were at the repository that most good genealogists go toFirst: The family History Center in Salt Lake. PS: I dont think the Mormons baptize ged coms of unrelated people of members? Jodi