I have been asked to remove a link from a website that I operate, Censuslinks.com. Initially the site owner accused me of stealing the material and violating her copyright by placing a link on it from my site to theirs. When I pointed out that no material was published at Censuslinks, only links, the site owner responded with the following reasons for wanting me to remove the link: 1. "Your site seems to duplicate the efforts of other indexes and search engines." 2. "The problem with linking to pages at random without first making a courteous request of the page owner is that pages are edited and updated and the links may no longer work. I really don't have time to notify multiple sites when changes are made on our web site. " When I responded that I never asked to be notified of changes made to any website that I have linked to, and asked if they were asking everyone who had "linked without their permission to remove the links" I received the following responses: 1. "One reason our Genealogical Society is concerned about the tax lists on line is that the (name removed by me) is in the process of publishing the tax lists from 1847-1859 that I edited and prepared for publication. These books will be for sale and if they aren't already out, soon will be. There is a possibility that we may need to remove these tax lists at least temporarily. While our local Genealogical Society has been VERY cooperative with our website and are in fact, quite proud of it, they are justifiably concerned about any loss of sales with anything we put on the net. Loss of sales must be protected." 2. "The Archive Coordinators did ask for permission before putting our cemetery links in the Archives. They have permission to have what they have in the archives. We did not grant anyone else that permission." My concern is not over losing the link, it is only one link out of 4,900 -- my concern is that my site is being singled out, that other sites that have links to this site, including Census-Online, On Line Census, Cyndi's List and Interment.net, are not being asked to remove their links. I have repeatedly asked this site owner why Censuslinks is being singled out and they have refused to answer the question. What would you do? Christine Charity Christine's Genealogy Website http://ccharity.com The Freedmen's Bureau Online http://freedmensbureau.com Censuslinks on the Internet http://censuslinks.com