This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kIZ.2ACEB/1075.1.1 Message Board Post: You raise a good point there, but if you have 20,000 individuals to enter, you can spend years entering it, whereas if someone else has already entered the data, you can obtain that, and then search for errors (my genealogy program is quick to point out errors). Opposite sides of the same coin, I suppose.