In a message dated 8/16/01 12:36:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > find on the web is not just second hand it may also be third, or fourth > > hand or even more. When we see information on the web, we have no way of > > knowing how many people have handled the information before we see it. > I agree with what you said above, I sent another family researcher info I had taken off the web for comparison and discussion, a few weeks later I found my email to him posted on his web site giving me credit for the information. Yikes. I had no reference for most of this information and no telling how much of it was taken from other boards. LaVerne Harvey