Hello to all, I know what they say about "opinions"... so indulge me please. I have wanted to say this for a couple of months now. I have finally got the courage to say it. Please, I do not mean to offend. I just want to express my feelings. We all also need to remember that line of Respect for those before us. There is a lot of information that can be accessed in our own century...the 20th. And even tho we can get the information legally, we need to ask ourselves "would I want this information staring my children, and children's children in the face somewhere down the line?" I know there are a lot of people doing other genealogies trying to piece together illegitimate children and prove parentage, and to me, this is acceptable. But sometimes the "details" have no place in a genealogy that is going to be "passed around". There are even people who find it "necessary" to access Medical Records from the 20th century. This is fine and good. But shouldn't the "respect line" be drawn when it concerns "Mental Hospital PATIENT Records"? I mean, to put in page after page of scanned copies of a Mental Health Record... in a "book", and pass it around... Come on, have we no "respect?" When we "worry about Copyright laws", we are essentially "worrying about ourselves". So let's all put ourselves in "the other persons shoes" and ask, "If I lived a good life, farmed/worked hard, raised and loved my family, then had someone 50 years or so later access personal information of a sensitive nature, would I want THAT as MY legacy?" Because sometimes, all the good we do and life we live goes unnoticed and overshadowed by something we have no control over. And it would be sad to be remembered only with "he was crazy...". Personally, if I ever received a Genealogy Report with such personal information in it, just to "make the book look bigger", or to say ..."look WHAT I found out"... I would not use it in any way. I would not bother to use their work in any way... And I would probably stop my search on that family altogether. And if I were on a list that had someone handing out Volumes of Genealogy Records to everyone that wanted them at Family Reunions, and it did have such sad and personal information in it... I would Unsubscribe to the list-name from wince it came. We should all take care in what we do. Remember, it not only affects the person doing it, it also affects, and offends many many more. I was not born Headley. But my husband was. What affects him, affects me also. Thank all for taking the time to read "my opinion". Susie Headley