Carl wrote: <<Personally, I think it is wrong to post such a large database, because we all know that many, many undocumented events and relationships are included, many of which the submitter does not even know where he/she got it. But I know that many of you think it is good for leads, so there is no need to tell me that, please. I think many people do not answer inquiries is because they are embarrassed that they have no backup for what they posted, other than they downloaded it from some other site like LDS or FTM. If they do not want to stand up for what they posted, they should not post it in the first place. Of course, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, right? Carl>> I must agree with Carl 100%. My involvement in the Hatcher family genealogy is as compiler/website maintainer. For the past three years Hatcher cousins have submitted much family data, including collateral lines. I suddenly found myself with 30,000 names and a large percentage of these names were just that - names. No dates, no other info. Hundreds of them were far removed from the Hatcher connection. And I also found myself overwhelmed with inquiries and no answers. Yes, it is embarrassing. Before I uploaded to WC, I spent many hours removing these meaningless names from my file. At least now I recognize the names in these inquiries and because I have the researcher's names recorded in the notes of their ancestor's page, I can direct the inquirer to a direct descendant. I don't claim to have solid backup for everyone on my file, but I have enough info to point someone in the right direction for further research. I would seriously question that names without any other information is necessarily a good lead, but only my opinion. I personally will never make an inquiry on just a name on the assumption that's all the submitter knows anyway :-) Cheers, Nel