Joan, I don't understand why, if he's using data you gathered, you wouldn't want it attributed to you. I wouldn't want more than one or two of my emails, public or private, posted verbatim without my permission at any one place, but I would want my efforts acknowledged. Also, if he wanted to use information about living people, there isn't anything you could do about it aside from asking that it be removed. Information regarding living people is all over the Net, including government web sites and newspapers. Obituaries list surviving relatives and their residences. This is all perfectly legal. Most of us just consider publishing genealogical databases which include the living as unethical. The reality is, though, you just can't hide anymore. Many family history books dating at least back into the 1800s included the names of people living at the time, and much of this information was contributed by the living people themselves. The only difference now is that we can access the information more easily without having to buy a book or go to the library. Debbie Hi all, I just left the website, and all of my e-mails and the information on living people have been removed!!! It turns out that, as we know, the data isn't protected under copyright, but the wording is, and the living are protected by privacy acts. Of course, he used most of the data, but we ALL saw THAT one coming!! As long as the info on the living is gone, and my name is no longer attributed to his site, all is well with the world again!!!! Interestingly, all it took was for me to tell him that I KNEW the material was copyrighted, and off it came. Certainly seems to me that he must have known too!!!! THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL, FOR ALL THE HELP!!!!! Joan