I agree that there should be a "Repository." I disagree that any central file should be created, and then added to, emailed around, circulated, or what not. I strongly disagree with the concept that everybody could then contribute their "lines" to a database. We will simply end up creating another monster like the LDS Ancestral File with a lot of jumbled and conflicting information. However, we already have such a central file. It's called the Internet. For example, for some time I have been creating a web page for the William Calvert-Elizabeth Nodding line. Obviously, the format is HTML. It contains all the known information about William and Elizabeth. It also contains a link to my William -Elizabeth Nodding page for Elizabeth's parents. There are links to other web sites for descendants who are maintaining a site for those offspring. [Now all I have to do is polish it all off and put it out there!] All that is really needed is a volunteer to host a page for a particular ancestor. Link all of the ancestor pages together at one place and you have exactly what you desire, a giant repository of Calvert information. To repeat: As soon as there is a central page, it will contain a link to my William Calvert-Elizabeth Nodding page. All those who descend from William and Elizabeth who are willing, will help me maintain that page, some by providing their own pages on their particular lines. That way, no one person has to do a lot of work. In addition, the info can always be as up-to-date as the person maintaining the page wants it to be. A further problem with a central data base is that there are always conflicts in information. Where I manage the "home page" for a particular individual, I can note the differences of dates, conflicts, questions, etc, and if somebody disputes what's there, they can email me with their thoughts, evidence, etc. which I can then add in. What I am proposing is essentially identical to the USGenWeb project. Instead of States and Counties, we'll have Calverts and sub-Calverts, so to speak. There will be an official web page for each individual Calvert line, with additional pages for further descendants, as the need and interest arises. There are a lot of families on the Net who have organized this way. Let's take advantage of the tool we already have in place. Please don't attempt to create another central data base! The LDS Church can't make theirs work. The only way one will work is if there is a single individual who is willing to devote almost full time to trying to determine which information is the most accurate on a particular individual. I can guarantee you that the information I would submit to such a database on the William-Elizabeth line will conflict with what's in O'Gorman, what's in the LDS Ancestral File, and with what a lot of people already have in their own data bases. Don't try the "central repository" approach. It simply won't work!