Bruce W. Davis & I have been corresponding in regard to privacy on webpages. It would be good to have some ideas from the rest of you. Bruce & John Davis, my parents, & Walter & I , and many of you, have been doing genealogy for many years. The aim has been twofold: 1) to find the ancestors' records, and 2) to find all the descendants, who are some kind of cousins. There is no trouble about privacy with documenting the ancestors. The issue is around how much information about living people, especially children, to share publicly, especially on the Internet. The teacher of a recent course in genealogy conducted at our Champaign County Archives was very emphatic about not putting the names & data of living people on the Internet, espcially not without their permission, and especially not for children. The reason for this is the possibility of fraud and of stolen identities. Many banks and credit institutions use one's maiden name as identification. Genealogy on webpages is a fertile source for that kind of information. We are finding that people who are strangers but distant cousins are more and more reluctant to share the information about their new babies for this very reason. The big question is how to eliminate living people from the webpages and from the GEDCOMs. Programs are available that will replace dates and places of birth and marriage with the word PRIVATE, but I have not been able to find any program that will cut off the list of descendants at a certain given date. Do you know of a good program to do this? Thanks for listening. Hoping that you will send comments to the INOWEN list for all of us. Thanks. nancy