Albert I am doing a one name study of McMorran everywhere in the world. I have traced McMorrans that came to Australia and also those that went to NZ, USA and Canada. Many are not related to me but I have learnt an incredible amount about my own family through the process and discovered many distant cousins with whom I am in periodic communication. I always ask for permission to web publish info supplied and if the sender wants their email details listed so they can be contacted. Since my web site has been on line for 7 years I suppose I have always known to ask this first. I must admit I have not necessarily sought permission from people that have written to me by regular mail in the distant past but most would have known my study info was intended to be disseminated to others. Despite the thousands of names on my site I have only once been asked to remove info in the case of a divorce. My main site is: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~msafier/McMorran/mcmorran.html The sub site with the regional family listings is: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~msafier/McMorran/mcmorran_index.html I mostly use the older program Netscape 5 Composer to create my sites which are fairly basic but effective enough I think. I now have Microsoft FrontPage as well but Netscape's free web authoring program is one of the more simple and useful programs I have come across. Cheers! Marcel -- Marcel Safier PO Box 539 Annerley 4103 Queensland Australia -- McMORRAN ONE NAME STUDY http://geocities.com/mcmorran_ons/ -----Original Message----- From: albert grulke [mailto:grulke@bigpond.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2004 2:09 AM To: AUS-QLD-TOOWOOMBA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AQ-TOOWOOMBA] Hoffmann Project I am not sure where I am going here but I thought I might give progress report on how my Hoffmann project has developed. First of all I would like to thank all those who have sent me data. It has been very beneficial and I have done some interesting work with it. Thank you again. I have developed 20 family tree of Hoffmann that came to Australia in the 19th century and are unrelated to each other. <snip> I would like to some how compile this into a book of some sort because I reckon there is a story here worth sharing. It has been suggested that I should develop a website for Hoffmann in Australia. I wonder about the ethics. I wonder about privacy and privilege. I have no problem sharing what I learn and most of it comes off emails, websites and books available to everybody but I do know some people get concerned at public sharing of information. I would hate to breach a privilege some mailer gave me. In any case I would need to learn how to create a website.