HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld Winnette, You're not stepping on anyone's toes. What we have here are viewpoints from different ends of the spectrum and different goals. The problem is that while "you" may know exactly where a family member is buried, the researcher who is looking for hard evidence cannot be sure in the absense of hard evidence. When a researcher sees unsourced data on a site such as WC and sees dozens of copycats with the same data, it's not possible to know where the data came from or who first put it out there. It is, as Tim stated, nothing more than hearsay. It may be right or wrong but is useless to the serious researcher looking for proof. It's nothing more than a "maybe", a clue to follow. The same is true of fag. There is no way [at the present] to determine if Winnette is correct but Jane Doe is not correct in their individual submissions. I see this as a difficult problem for fag to solve. Having an unknown cemetery section may be fine but it seems the purpose of fag is to link individuals to specific cemeteries. The problem is more with those who claim a burial in a certain cemetery that cannot be proven. But since text entries can be made, such as obits, why couldn't that area be used to explain the exact circumstances of an unmarked or unprovable burial? When someone with family history explains that family history, it becomes more valuable to the researcher. The copycatters entering garbage they found on someone else's file could not adequately give that kind of personal explanation and their data would then become much more suspect to the researcher. Just a thought.......... And just some thoughts on the GA DCs you're working with. You may have already discovered this but I've found potential problems with DCs from all states when burial location is given as, for example, "Thomasville, GA." Further searching finds that there are x number of cems in Thomasville, including a city cemetery. Don't assume burial was in the city cem. I've also found burials listed as XYZ cem only to find out later, complete with tombstone pic, that the burial was actually in ABC cem. The informant may have given a best guess on where the deceased would be buried only to have the family bury him/her elsewhere. Ain't nothin' certain in this world 'cept death and taxes. Nel