It is tempting, oh-so tempting!, to list as a source for great-grand's marriage something like http://members.NASA.edu/web/web_page/this.html and skip the wearisome step of VERIFYING the info in the real records. The problem will arise (that's WILL, as in guaranteed) when, two, six, eight months or a year from now when you try to go back to http://members.NASA.edu/web/web_page/this.html and get a 404- file not found, or a No DNS. I am a county coordinator for a USGenWeb site. I have a respectable number of links on my pages. In the past year, more than half those links have changed URLs. The changed links run from a private website to part of the US Government. I spent over 35 minutes looking for a specific page on a specific state-government site today -- never did find it. Used their site-search engine to come up with the info I needed, but NOT in the form it was in August 2002. A METHOD of dealing with ephemeral sources in genealogy needs to be discussed. The entire purpose of a source citation is to permit you or someone else to return to the source of the information. A Dead URL does not permit that to happen. Once the URL changes, there is no way of knowing whether the information has also changed. Worse, if I'm reading (or you're reading) a document produced by Joseph Q. Stranger, there is no way of knowing whether his cited -- but invalid -- URL ever existed. It seems to me that one of several other approaches could be (should be?) taken -- cite the source (1) as "Jerry Murphy's website, Jul 2001" or (2) as "Private Communication" or (3) [a personal favorite] "I read this somewhere." (2) and (3) are unarguable, not open to verification, and no worse than an invalid URL; (1) at least gives you a fighting chance of determining whether the website you find today is the one you saw last year. Cheryl singhals@erols.com