Ann wrote: "I do not know what Host Gator page is all about. Will have to read up on the matter." Host Gator is a commercial web hosting ISP service. For a fee, they'll host a website on their servers under a domain name you register. Sort of like Freepages, but they charge and let you use your own domain. I've been doing some investigation of hosting services in connection with moving a non-freepages site from its current host. Host Gator gets good reviews, but some of their clients may be less than ethical. Host Gator being mentioned in this context has me wondering about choosing them. So, if you find you content misappropriated and appearing on a site hosted by Host Gator, I'd recommend contacting the company about the abuse. They are the ones who can discipline the abuser. However, as Barry said, " Even if the host of the site targeting your pages manages to close the site down, the culprits, armed with all the data they have already acquired will quickly set up elsewhere. There is no simple solution." The penalty for the abuser is that they may lose the balance of their hosting contracts, costing them a small amount of money. (OOTH, maybe they're paying with stolen credit card information.) * Re: "I went in to the rootsweb upload files area, IMAGES folder was completely empty. I uploaded all images again and all was well. The images disappeared again a few days later." Using another person's content without permission or attribution is usually unethical. Removing it from the place found is downright nasty. It seems someone has gained access to your Freepages account with your username and password. You should change your password as a first step. If that doesn't solve the problem, you may have a malware infestation, with which a hacker can go into your computer and steal information like passwords. (It's much less likely that the Freepages servers got hacked.) -rt_/)