> > None of my "proven" data is on any web site for several reasons. > snip> > > > I don't want it harvested by commercial groups for one. > snip> > Yeah, but there may be someone out there banging his or her head on > a brick wall -- as we all have done. And your information may be the > key to unlock the hidden vault they are seeking. snip> I'm pretty much a newbie here...have been digging for only about three-four years. Small tale follows..... There was a "stepmother" who married my grandfather after my grandmother died, and I always thought she may have been the mother of a bunch of rellies we used to visit in the summer, back when I was a child. Thought that was her surname connection to us. Now, this grandfather was impossible to find for a long time, and every time I tired of searching for him, I would search online for the name of the rellies. Yeah, I was head-banging, but I had so very little to go on, I did it repeatedly. :-) Lo and behold, one day I found a name I recognized....one of the summer rellies!!! Excitement ensued. I contacted the owner of the site, and learned that she knew nothing about this person; he was incidental to her line. But she referred me to a person who did, and who knew that this person's daughter was alive and the upshot of the whole thing was that I called and talked to the daughter. Well, it turned out they weren't children of the stepmother, but my very own blood relations! The woman I called turned out to be my first cousin. I learned quite a lot from her about the vagaries of my grandfather's family. And enormously enlarged my information. The point is, I would never have made this connection had I not stumbled across that name on someone's public web site. For that I shall always be grateful. Now, I am pretty sure there's no way to "tick-lock" anything placed on a public site. After all, it's all just electrons. Well, images might do it, but they're so danged unhandy and all. And I'm sure not gonna believe anything w/o proving it. But I am so glad it was out there, waiting for me!!! :-) It was just what I needed to break through, find new relations and finally nail the old bast .... er ... my grandfather. ;-) Adhani=C3=A1 =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Adhani=3DE1?=3D <[email protected]>