In case the following information was erased, here it is again. Good articles about copyright, ethics, and accuracy. Click on the blue URL under the title. Laura, I couldn't tell whether your query appeared here or on another e-list. You can find how-to advice in the Hoffman article. Restoring Ethics to Genealogy, by Barbara Brown http://www.iigs.org/newsletter/9904news/ethics.htm.en This is from the August Co, VA, GenWeb-- INTERNET GENEALOGY - WHAT'S GOOD! WHAT'S NOT! . . . AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? by Bettie Cummings Cook, CG [Published in The Packet, Tri-State Genealogical Society, Evansville, IN, vol.XXII, no. 2(Dec. 1998)] http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm These two are from the Oldham Co, KY, GenWeb -- Who Owns Genealogy? by Gary B Hoffman http://rootsweb.net/~kyoldham/gcopyright.html Database Copyrights, by Edmund B Burke http://rootsweb.net/~kyoldham/copyright.html We can also get information on U.S. and foreign copyrights through Mike Goad's "Linked Index to the U.S. Copyright Code" on his copyright site. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/html/code.htm