I share Gloria Frazier's concerns about posting information up to the various on-line "collectors" such as Ancestry and Family Tree Maker. All of these CD makers encourage you to post your information in order to "share" it with other researchers. If it was sharing, they wouldn't be charging what they do for the disks. I don't begrudge them a profit, but earning money on my hard earned information - particularly after I shelled out the money for their software - seems a bit off center to me. I see a real problem here. If we don't share our information, then how will we continue to help the other researchers out there? On the other hand, if we do share, our information can be misused, and at best will lead people down the wrong path. Personally, I have never bought a CD from any of the family tree program companies. I have looked at their info when they have "free" promotions, but have found little that hellps me, and unfortunately, the "proofs" are very thin and usually nonexistant. Unfortunately, I have even found many serious errors in the information provided by LDS. I do, on occasion, add information to my "cousins" part of the tree without complete verification - at least from people I trust, and if there are enough clues to indicate a probable fit. However, if no annotation of source is included, I take it as unproven. My recommendation . . . don't post information you have gotten from others without their permission, and never post it without credit. Posting unproven data is probably the worst idea of all. I have long had a personal rule that I will never "post up" my information to one of the "CD" sites. However, I will go out of my way to share information with anyone who needs help. My two cents worth . . . Jack Cox