That's scary! Unfortunately, private (and often incorrect) family information has been distributed by commercial family tree companies (not mentioning names) through the naive "sharing" by novice genealogists. I've run across the names and birthdates of my young nieces and nephews, and I didn't distribute it. However, we do need to take the high road and make sure it's our policy not to redistribute. It gets a little dicey with some tombstone transcriptions, where the stone may contain the names of living individuals. Husbands and wives may have a joint tombstone, with the birthdates and only one death date inscribed. A child's grave will include the parents' names. How to handle those? Pat S. Gwinnett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Barton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:37 PM Subject: RE: [GAGEN] Privacy Committee > A few months ago there was a lot of activity using the search engine of > my personal research site which included searches for my name in various > forms with + mother and + parents and +maiden and +birth which > obviously aroused my curiosity (and ire!) >