Colleen, I understand your feelings about com. vendors. They have taken what came out of family bibles and families information to sell and I am very much against that. Noone should have to buy their family lines which was given by their line. I am not aware of, nor have I seen any of them searching in the dusty old books. I could be wrong. These companies gather from us and sell to them. They have seen a begine hobby and turned it into their own personal business. I myself have seen info I gave freely to a "cousin" put on another's web site with out my permission or to ask if it was correct or what site or who I got it from. And there it is forever. Maybe it will be snagged later and sold in a bundle who knows. I think Ancestry.com is the worst. If you go on many sites to search if you aren't careful you will end up on their "search" page. It doesn't say ancestry.com it will say something else. Or they offer you free days/weeks and all you have to do is give your credit card. Maybe you will forget to cancel the subscription after your free days are up and wola!! You now pay for your ancestors information gathered from that familoy bible or where ever. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp