Heide: As I understand it (I am not an attorney), facts are not copyrightable, just the expression of the facts. Therefore, if she has published bare bones data without sources, go one better. Use footnotes or endnotes generated by software like The Master Genealogist (TMG). Make sure your sentences are different from hers. Make your sources more extensive and better. For example, if she used published Massachusetts vital records, go to the original town records on LDS microfilm and abstract them from the handwriting. Incorporate photos of old documents and gravestones you have consulted. Use a different person-numbering scheme. Can you have a somewhat different bunch of people? If you need to cite her as a source for anything, then do so without quoting her, if possible. Put analysis of problems into your own words. If you put out a better and different product, she won't have a leg to stand on! For a website example, see Lee Hoffman's individual narrative generated with TMG (endnotes are hyperlinks): http://www.users.mis.net/~lhoffman/judge001.htm --Ida McCormick, [email protected] ----------------------- At 03:11 PM 7/26/99 -0500, Heide Sciacca <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> >I have compiled my work through many sources, have visited libraries, went >to cemetaries, looked at bibles, etc. In addition, there is another >person who has the same exact info on their website with regard as our >families are related. <snip>