PS. It is ALWAYS nice when credit is given where it is due, but if it is not that's the nature of the beast. Don't be hurt, just keep killing them with honey. You will be the bigger "man" for it. I agree, I have no problems with sharing any of my info, I have sent out several gedcoms today to people, not whole trees just bits they are looking into in thier own research, and I am also looking through several that I have received some connect into my own tree some are to one of the 3 trees I am doing for others at the moment. anyone is welcome to any research that I have done, and as long as any research that is from another person I have permission to send it out that goes too, however, where people have specifically asked that their info is not put online, I expect that to be respected, There is someone I could willfully strangle cos I know she has the info I am looking for and she wont share LOL but thats her perogative she spent 30 years tracking it down and she feels I have to do the same LOL I dont need to be a "bigger man" LoL Im a woman for starters and we are ALL bigger than men LOL I dont have a problem with people who are 5th cousins 20 times removed having my tree, its not about me being hurt, hell its water off a ducks back to me, as is most of life, but I know some of my rellies who are hurt by the information being put online, and then they find that these people don't even have any blood line connection, and the marital connection is god knows where, they are reightly upset by it. I dont take many things seriously, Wuf will tell you that, but I do take research seriously but I do like to have fun doing it, and I do respect the wishes of people who are kind enough to furnish me with info. Not everyone is "into" family history, most of my family think I should leave the skeletons in the cupboards, but where I have found them, and it relates very personally to them, they have the right to their privacy when they have expressly said thats what they want! soapbox time over now LOL Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?