For the past year I have been working on producing a CD with all the known descendants of James Bunker who settled in Dover, NH about 1650. Today I ran a report on his descendants. We have over 6,900 names in this report. It is over 160 pages long with single spaced lines. There are quite a few pictures and stories to be added to the genealogical data. Sounds good huh? Well it isn't. Many people are worried about identity theft. While the only known cases of identity theft have been involved with the theft of credit cards, people are very protective about personal data and especially about their children. In order to protect the living I would need to cut off the data at about 1900. This means there would be less information on the CD than in our last two books. These were published in 1961 and 1982 when no one was worried about identity theft. It means that the stories from World War II would not be included. While there would be some additional lines that we have discovered before 1900, most of the new data comes from after 1900. While the books are more expensive than a CD would be, they both have considerably more data than the CD would have. Anyone can go on the internet and within a few minutes get the birthdate and place of just about anybody. They can also usually get their address, phone number, place of business, education, products they buy online and in the grocery store, car they drive and its license number, the schools their kids attend and all kinds of additional information. But people do not want it published in a genealogy book or on a genealogy CD. Rootsweb, Ancestry, Genealogy.com, LDS and other websites have up to date genealogical information on practically everyone. The 1930 census is online with the names, addresses, ages, occupations, and birth places of people that were living in 1930. These same people would not be included in a genealogy book because of the concern with identity theft. I can't figure out a good reason to continue on and make a CD of the information we have about James' descendants. I realize I should have thought more about this sooner. I am a retired judge and criminal trial lawyer. I am not the least bit worried about data being published about me or my children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren. In fact in a few minutes any of you could find out all about them on the internet. I suppose that is why I did not think about the fact that I could not publish any of the latest information without upsetting a lot of people. I'm stymied. Since the vast majority of the people are convinced this would be highly dangerous to them and their families, I think I had better abandon the project. If anyone has any ideas for a substitute, I would be glad to hear them. Bette