In a message dated 7/19/2006 10:38:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jma8763@aol.com writes: Hi John, THANKS for the reply, and actually, it DOES help to know you aren't alone when something like this happens!! It's unfortunate that some people just seem to be determined to ruin things for others, cuz it's people like this who make people like me, far less willing to share info the next time around! THANKS AGAIN!! Joan Joan- I don't view the solution to the problem as refusal to share genealogical data with others--but I think the best method of sharing it is to publish it yourself--either on your own website or in a database like WorldConnect at RootsWeb. If you publish your database yourself and display it exactly as you want it to be viewed by others and have complete control over how you edit and remove it if/when needed--then, and only then, does it become irrelevant what others might copy from it and publish elsewhere--because your data under your name and your control is always there for others to find and weigh against anything else they might find on this same family. We can't own or control our ancestors but we can own and control the data WE researched and publish under our own name. Joan