Hi Listers, I wouldn't dream of unsubbing from Ancestry (couldn't run my business without it!) but I think the moral here is to just be careful. Take what you find on the patron-submitted trees with a grain of salt and do your own research to back up any legitimate connections you may find. I agree that to be able to contact others by having your tree online is worth the risk that someone may appropriate your research. I have made contact with many, many cousins in far-flung places that wouldn't have been possible without my having my tree online. But I have long since had to accept that not everyone is as passionate as I am about stating my sources and neither is everyone as concerned that they actually have the right leaves on their trees! But then most people are probably not as obsessed about genealogy as I am either......! Karen in Ontario _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive email from all of your webmail accounts. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671356